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[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Don't ever engage with culture sensing surveys honestly. The only place they weren't a trap (ironically) was the US Army where they did it on paper, punished people for putting their names on them, and walked right past your entire immediate chain of command to their bosses with the results. And the one time things were truly bad they literally brought in a Sociology expert to study our unit and figure out how things had gone bad, it resulted in all new leadership and team building exercises, in a war zone. (These results do not extend to other branches, I had one done by the Navy and it was corpo trap bullshit, got a lot of the Army guys there by surprise.)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly the name of their company is the more shocking part.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)
this is ~~likely~~ satire/a publicity stunt by the way

edit: proof. trust your gut yall.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Jesus Christ.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And no one gave critical/constructive feedback ever again. Mission accomplished!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Probably just a front for tech support scam call center anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Where did we go so wrong man

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Please tell me this is fake. Please?!?!!??

True story: I once worked for a startup where the head of HR kept a spreadsheet he called his "naughty and nice" list. For every employee he had a score that boiled down to "risk to the company". He would send out surveys like this and say things like "your feedback is strictly confidential", then use the responses to determine people's scores. Of course other things like any kind of complaint he overheard went into it too.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Years ago I heard this story about a company in India that held a fire drill. Once everybody was gathered outside, they made the announcement that for about a third of them their key cards wouldn't work anymore because they were fired. My colleagues from India at the time said that sounded very real.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I had a coworker who had this happen at a former search company in the US.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The only thing I could find is that Yes Madam is a real company and that the sender is indeed the HR head of that company. So if it's fake, someone kept the header and signature of a real email. Or maybe a real email sent on April 1st? I have a hard time believing that this is real (not that a company wouldn't do this, but the fact that they would admit to it so blatantly like it's not a bad thing).

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

It seems that it's most likely an out-of-touch marketing stunt. The company, Yes Madam, is apparently launching some sort of corporate wellness program type thing so they are likely going to pivot this publicity into "Treating employees like that would be awful right?! But companies do have stressed employees and should take care of them with...blah".

I hope it fully backfires and they go out of business.

EDIT: It just hit me that they are going to say "We didn't have a single employee who indicated stress on the survey, because we take care of our employees."

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's India. Of course it's not fake.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Not that this wouldn’t happen, but for me the screenshot looks a bit edited (though I’m just viewing on my phone): look at the clarity of the text in the email, then at the signature and logo. Might be that somebody just swapped out the text in an image editor.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m very surprised anyone in this community would actually believe this. As several of the cross posts detail, India has better worker protections than this. It’s almost guaranteed fake. Also the text doesn’t match up across the screenshot so it looks photoshopped in some way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We did it, Patrick! We solved workplace stress!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

No one tell them about poor or mentally ill people 😭

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