This is your captain speaking. Please fasten your seatbelts. You are in for a turbulent Flight.
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Why do we have such a toxic culture of making work “fun”?? What the hell is wrong with people? Why can’t we just do work, go home and have your own kind of fun with other people you enjoy being around???
Because your corporate overlords believe that if you can build a connection to your workplace and colleagues, they can guilt you into producing more value for less pay out of some misguided sense of loyalty. A job is a transaction. They don’t give a shit about you, you don’t need to give a shit about them.
believe that if you can build a connection to your workplace and colleagues, they can guilt you into producing more value for less pay out of some misguided sense of loyalty
But I’m afraid they’ve been wildly misinformed by the HR overlords or whomever on ‘how to get employees to build a connection to the workplace and colleagues’ cringe
I fucking hate it. I dont get it. Its a JOB. It means nothing to me. Just middle management and HR trying to justify their existance. Just cause they dont have personal lives.
An idea was floated by HR that each team should make a video (to put on our intranet) explaining what we do and how we fit into the organisation.
The kicker - it should have been a music video!!! Everyone loves to sing on camera!!
Thankfully upper management put an end to it quickly, but it went way further than it should have.
it should have been a music video!!! Everyone loves to sing on camera!!
have these people not heard of the Geneva Convention?
It’s becoming a big thing in government (my area of work at least). Heavily encouraged ‘fun activities’ for all!!!
I’ve been slightly shunned as I refuse to participate but fuck’em.
The worst is when they do this after cutting headcount and stuff thinking this will help but it’s just really cringe.
I like to make work fun for myself because I have to spend so much time on it. But forcing it to be fun for the whole team is just small minded groupthink. Especially when it comes from the minds of soulless and cynical HR departments
While I sometimes can motivate myself at work to make things fun or funny for some reason there’s always a natural and ugly resistance when it’s suggested by people higher up in the chain.
I like work to be fun but not if it’s forced. Then it’s just more work of a different and more annoying kind.
After last night’s successful posting, I have moved the bot onto learning the days of the week. Either I have been successful, or all future posts will be labeled as Wednesday.
OMG it worked! >insert happy dance here<
I have absolutely no idea 🤣 Whatever it was I think the packet manager has fixed it, as it is designed to run programs continuously. Or possibly the successful post was an amazing fluke and no post in the future will ever work again. But I’m hoping not.
Lmao didn’t get the job I waited three months to hear back from.
I mean if they’re that crap at their job you probably don’t want to work there anyway.
Time for bed. Anxious about the bot, but it has worked once, I must have faith. I have instructed it to make a post at midnight given all the test posts worked last night. I think it will take a few more successful posts before I can really trust it is working.
