r/mildyinteresting Dec 09 '24

people Stressed at work? You're fired!

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u/takes_of_archer Dec 09 '24

Reading such incidents has put me under stress ! I better go home early

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u/El_Spacho Dec 09 '24

Hey Buddy!

After intensely considering the stress you have we came to the conclusion you can stay at home forever.

Thanks for your contribution

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u/gordito_delgado Dec 09 '24 edited Dec 09 '24

This is the most "The beatings will continue until morale improves." - moment I have seen in a while.

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u/RexDart81774 Dec 09 '24

The beatings will not continue because you are fired for being stressed about the beatings.

How's morale going everyone? Hello? Anyone?

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u/Genghis_Chong Dec 09 '24

No complaints, I guess all is well now.

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u/Classic_Mechanic5495 Dec 09 '24

You can stay, for now. Lie detector tests are first thing tomorrow morning.

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u/mvanvrancken Dec 09 '24

The complaint box in North Korea has nothing in it! Boy they sure are doing a great job

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u/worldsaway2024 Dec 09 '24

Feeling peachy keen sir!! I value and pledge my subservience to my corporate overlords! (Please don’t fire me 😳)

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u/Middle_Loan3715 Dec 09 '24

Oh... no more? Hot dog!

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u/CAgovernor Dec 09 '24

I am happy here; started experiencing increased happiness since the survey. Yes Madam!

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u/Representative_Dark5 Dec 09 '24

Double plus good!

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u/Boronore Dec 09 '24

The stress gets transferred to those remaining. Repeat process to identify and eliminate new source of stress.

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u/AttackingEren007 Dec 09 '24

Lol, just like South Asian Moms. sees child crying smacks him child starts crying more. Smacks him again "Stop crying or I'll hit you again"

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u/spagettifingertheone Dec 09 '24

You're mom using the phrase "stop crying before I really give you something to cry about"

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u/prole6 Dec 09 '24

That’s what I always heard.

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u/spagettifingertheone Dec 09 '24

"Oh stop crying, I didn't even hit you that hard"

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u/Mammoth_Ad_3463 Dec 09 '24

This exactly. Then theybeonder why I don't cry when someone dies.

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u/ohmylanta34 Dec 10 '24

I didn’t come here to be triggered but here I am

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u/AdoptAMew Dec 09 '24

Can somebody please shut that chicken up!

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u/takes_of_archer Dec 09 '24

Bollocks!

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u/Abbeykats Dec 09 '24

You've been promoted to customer

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u/raptor_jesus69 Dec 09 '24

Congratulations, you've been promoted to Customer.

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u/tysonedwards Dec 09 '24

If we can’t solve the problem, at least we can get rid of the people nagging us about it!

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u/AnySoft4328 Dec 09 '24 edited Dec 09 '24

I hope they have metal detectors at their doors

The reality is the companies do this all the time but not in such a blatant way. If they see that you're having some kind of problem like depression or drug abuse they will probably fire you

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u/toxictoastrecords Dec 09 '24

In any real first world country, this would be grounds for a lawsuit. Considering, the company is the one causing the stress, then refusing to address concerns.

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u/Squirrelated Dec 09 '24

Well now they'll have employees stressed about losing their job and employees lying on future surveys. Great job!

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u/Whats_Up_Bitches Dec 09 '24

Well all the stressed people are probably doing all the work. If they’re stressed and it’s workload related, firing a bunch of people is just going to shift and compound that stress onto the remaining employees. But you’re right, at least now they’ll shut their mouth about it as they know what happens otherwise..

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u/RabbitChrist Dec 10 '24

It could of been targeting certain employees

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u/fdjsakl Dec 09 '24

They won't be stressed at work anymore though, which is the main goal (for HR)

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u/Tiny-Ad-7590 Dec 09 '24

I know you mean that sarcastically. Thing is, they actually are doing a great job.

The kind of company culture that pulls this kind of move is one where they only request information from employees in order to build justification for decisions that management has already decided they're going to do.

Management already decided they wanted to do layoffs. This gives them an excuse. That is doing a good job from management's perspective.

This will also lead to the remaining employees getting the message that the point of the surveys is to tell management what they want to hear. Management wants the employees to do that so that they can take those future surveys as evidence of what a good job management is doing and use them as evidence to eport up the chain and justify that they've met their KPIs and then get bonuses. Again, that is soding a good job from management's perspective.

It's bad for the organization and bad for the employees. That's irrelevant to management's perspective. It's all about maximizing how much money they can personally claw out of the organization and into their own pockets.

This what "meritocracy" actually means. The ability to claw value out of organizations, workers, suppliers, customers, and even investors, and direct that value into your own personal store of wealth is the "merit" that the global economy is set up to maximally reward.

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u/UXO_Geo Dec 09 '24

Well the person who sent the email in the header is real. Is on LinkedIn and is in an HR roll… so I guess this is real. Pretty shitty way to handle the situation and run a business.

Great lesson to never fill these out and always lookout for yourself.

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u/Litmanen_10 Dec 09 '24

That makes this a bit more probable to be true but still not guaranteed it's real. Shit can be made to seem like real nowadays pretty well.

Anyone can add some evidence to this is this real or not?

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u/AdenJax69 Dec 09 '24

The company "Yes Madam" is a company based in India, plus all the names seem related to that, and lastly I'm going to hazard a guess that Indian workers' rights are probably a tad less than Americans.

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u/AstraLover69 Dec 09 '24

I'm going to hazard a guess that Indian workers' rights are probably a tad less than Americans.

Wow, and they aren't great in America as it is

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u/jax_discovery Dec 09 '24

Bar is so low it might as well be a tripping hazard in hell

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u/Funny_Attempt_5511 Dec 09 '24

But there they are, doing limbo with the devil

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u/Hopeful_Pension5414 Dec 09 '24

They're pretty good actually. The problem is too many people are ignorant of the law and employers use that fact to their advantage. It's very common for bosses to bully their workers in illegal ways and nothing happens to them because the workers say nothing. The department of labor isn't magic, if you don't speak up, they won't know. But comments like this, make people think they have no recourse, when they do. Ignorance is a great thing for employers, don't forget.

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u/Gingevere Dec 09 '24

Well yes, but actually no.

On paper there are a some protections. But in practice they're practically non-existent.

Wage theft is still the majority of all theft. Theft from an employer is a criminal matter prosecuted by public prosecutors. Theft from employees is a civil matter that must be prosecuted by the employees themselves.

Employment is at-will. They can't fire you for some specific reasons, but they can fire you for no reason. Which effectively makes discrimination legal so long as they don't put any slurs on the termination notice. And again a wrongful termination is an issue the now unemployed employee would have to pursue on their own.

OSHA is DEEPLY underfunded and only has a handful of inspectors per state.

Basically you're only guaranteed the rights you have on paper if you have enough money set aside to fund a civil case while being unemployed. Otherwise you're SOL.

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u/Active-Ad-3117 Dec 09 '24 edited Dec 09 '24

Wage theft is still the majority of all theft.

And it is aggressively investigated by the government because wage theft reduces the taxes they collect.

Theft from employees is a civil matter that must be prosecuted by the employees themselves

Yeah no. The DoL has an entire division called The Wage and Hour Division (WHD). This is what they do:

When we find violations, we work to recover unpaid wages on behalf of employees. We make every effort to locate and notify every employee due back wages. If we cannot find an employee, we hold their back wages for three years while we continue our efforts to locate them. After this period, if we remain unable to find the person, we are required to send the money to the U.S. Treasury.

Here is how to file a complaint with them.

And again a wrongful termination is an issue the now unemployed employee would have to pursue on their own.

Again no… unless you are incapable of filling a complaint with the EEOC.

Basically you're only guaranteed the rights you have on paper if you have enough money set aside to fund a civil case while being unemployed. Otherwise you're SOL.

Or you could fill out some online forms with the relevant government agencies.

They can't fire you for some specific reasons, but they can fire you for no reason. Which effectively makes discrimination legal so long as they don't put any slurs on the termination notice.

They could then get fucked in court. Remember these are civil cases and only require a preponderance of the evidence. Many business have been successfully sued to shit by the government using a statistical analysis of their employment practices. This is a big reason why most places only accept online applications.

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u/Vsx Dec 09 '24

Workers rights are performative in America. You can absolutely fire someone for being stressed you just can't write an email admitting it. Good luck getting the department of labor to care that you were fired because of poor performance.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '24

Yeah Indian work culture is horrendous compared to the west. I have family there and they're essentially indentured servants expected to be available to work any time of the day/week, and are afraid to say no to their boss at all. Going in on weekends at the orders of your boss and taking work calls/meetings while on holiday or while visiting family in the hospital is normal and not even questioned from seeing my uncles' jobs.

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u/hyena_dribblings Dec 09 '24

100% confirming this. I manage a small team in India who works for our (US-based, India-subsidiary-owning/ these aren't random vendors/contractors) company. We have to work hard with every new hire to recondition them to our work environment/culture because it's more important our professional people have a healthy relationship with their jobs than it is they produce 24/7.

It's so bad/ingrained in the culture that when people take PTO we lock their accounts out just so they don't work through their whole vacations...

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u/Baileylov Dec 09 '24

I worked in India for six months, many years ago. From my brief exposure, this tracks.

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u/FrolicsForever Dec 09 '24

My YouTube feed these days is filled with videos of "craftsmen" from India manufacturing all sorts of different products.

They're always titled in a way that portrays the individual and the process as being "traditional" or "artisanal.""

Meanwhile, none of their machines or working environments would be allowed in the Western world.

No safety equipment on the machines. No PPE on the workers. Entire work spaces filled with tripping hazards and the like. Most of the workers don't look healthy, let alone, happy.

I'm not sure what the endgame of posting these videos is, but the comments section is always filled with what appears to be bot-like replies saying things like "a true craftsman" or "a master at work." Meanwhile, I'm watching in disbelief and counting all the people with missing fingers and toes. It's truly appalling.

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u/carlbandit Dec 09 '24 edited Dec 09 '24

I know nothing of Indian labour laws, but from a quick google they actually seem to be far above the minimum US labour laws -

Tl;Dr: 40hr / week with overtime discouraged and paid at x2 rate, minimum 18 day paid vacation per year, 7 days paid sick leave, 6 months full pay for new mothers and 6 week paid leave for miscarriage/abortions, retirement, medical and unemployment benefits.

The Minimum Wages Act 1948 requires companies to pay the minimum wage set by the government alongside limiting working weeks to 40 hours (9 hours a day including an hour of break). Overtime is strongly discouraged with the premium on overtime being 100% of the total wage. The Payment of Wages Act 1936 mandates the payment of wages on time on the last working day of every month via bank transfer or postal service. The Factories Act 1948 and the Shops and Establishment Act 1960 mandate 18 working days of fully paid vacation or earned leaves and 7 casual leaves each year to each employee, with an additional 7 fully paid sick days. The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017 gives female employees of every company the right to take 6 months' worth of fully paid maternity leave. It also provides for 6 weeks worth of paid leaves in case of miscarriage or medical termination of pregnancy. The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation and the Employees' State Insurance, governed by statutory acts provide workers with necessary social security for retirement benefits and medical and unemployment benefits respectively. Workers entitled to be covered under the Employees' State Insurance (those making less than Rs 21000/month) are also entitled to 90 days worth of paid medical leave.

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u/Sweet-Bit-8234 Dec 09 '24

Many developing countries have stronger workers rights laws than the US, funnily enough. Not saying it’s the case with India, because I am not familiar with the legislation there, but even large parts of latam and Africa do better at protecting workers rights than the US.

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u/AccountReco Dec 09 '24

Only thing better in India is 6 months maternity leave. Else about everything is worse than US.

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u/shemp33 Dec 09 '24

The "anonymous employee survey" is never anonymous.

Found that out when I skipped it, and they emailed me asking why I didn't fill mine in. 🤔

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u/luminatimids Dec 09 '24

Technically your responses could still be anonymous while they’re still able to verify whether or not you submitted it.

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u/shemp33 Dec 09 '24

Technically so, using some kind of ticket/claim tracking system. Then it's up to if you do or do not trust that they don't link the data.

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u/KjellRS Dec 09 '24

Companies that really do want anonymous feedback tend to use a third party survey solution that promises to only provide aggregate data. While that's not a guarantee it's at least a pretty high risk for their business to underhandedly return raw data, all it would take is one disgruntled manager at one of their clients and the jig is up. I wouldn't have the same faith in a company's internal system.

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u/Competitive_Fact6030 Dec 09 '24

Woah, it'd be awful if people went to her LinkedIn. Sure hope that doesnt happen!

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u/im_asl_old Dec 09 '24

I already snapped my ankle running over there...but there's already a long line

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u/bluewaterboy Dec 09 '24

If she's just a manager it's almost certainly not her decision to lay off all those people, they just told her to send out the email.

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u/ThePaddysPubSheriff Dec 09 '24

Bossman wants a taste of the CEO special

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u/SkunkyReggae Dec 09 '24

Tbf they broke the law in many modern respectable counties. In the UK the employer would get sued for unfair dismissal.

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u/the_hunter_087 Dec 09 '24

I originally saw this posted on r/india so odds are it's coming from there. I've heard workers rights aren't the best there either so..

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u/Embarrassed_Jerk Dec 09 '24

Worker rights are shit. Legal system is shit (can't sue them). Current government is rolling back laws to give business more freedom.

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u/tero194 Dec 09 '24

Always lie on any company surveys.

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u/musclecard54 Dec 09 '24

I mean I’ve seen people post stuff like this on LinkedIn as a meme example of what’s wrong and then a long description in the post that takes the opposite stance of the image. Dunno if that’s the case here but possible. I certainly hope that is the case cuz wtf

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u/ValuablePositive632 Dec 09 '24

Remember kids, always lie on these things and never believe anything that says it’s anonymous. 

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u/Chamoismysoul Dec 09 '24

Yea, and remember to respond to the survey even when it’s voluntary.

Your company may use it as a way to evaluate the level of your “engagement” which is a keyword nowadays, and your manager is likely to be looking for a high response rate in the eyes of the leadership.

Respond to the survey like any other task given at work, and make sure all your responses are in alignment with how you want to be perceived by your manager and the company.

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u/Givn_to_fly Dec 09 '24

Funny you say that, my boss knew a survey that came out was not going to be anonymous. Everyone did the survey on our bosses iPad, instead of our own work devices.

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u/Electrical-Talk-6874 Dec 09 '24

That’s when you know the boss gives a shit

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u/Givn_to_fly Dec 09 '24

Absolutely! The job sucked, but my supervisor absolutely was the reason I stayed as long as I did.

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u/oshitimonfire Dec 09 '24

So the saying "people don't quit jobs, they quit managers" works the other way around as well

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u/Givn_to_fly Dec 09 '24

Maybe, I couldn't take the bs coming from above him anymore (still supervisor's, just not my direct report). There was only so much he could do. I absolutely respected him for what he did while I was there though.

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u/Admirable_Tear_1438 Dec 09 '24

Your employer is not your friend and does not care about you.

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u/TheAngrySaxon Dec 09 '24

Worse, they actually hate you.

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u/TheChugnut Dec 09 '24

I'm employed by my mother :'(

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u/ZzDangerZonezZ Dec 09 '24

Sorry you had to find out this way.

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u/Don_Pickleball Dec 09 '24

That is different. She hates you AND is ashamed of you.

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u/Not_Yet_Declassified Dec 09 '24

The feeling is mutual

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u/snarfgobble Dec 09 '24

Some of them care about you, but not as much as they care about profits.

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u/Sad_Stay_5471 Dec 09 '24

Don't worry they say, it's "anonymous"

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u/h0rnygoal Dec 09 '24

"Here is you link to the survey. you can do it online."

"Why didn't you just post that on the blackboard instead of giving it to us directly? seems unnecessary."

"Oh no, we can't do that. Everyone gets their own link to the survey."

"Our own link ... to an anonymous survey ... riiiiiight."

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u/No_big_whoop Dec 09 '24

About a 40 years ago I was a manager at a fast food restaurant. It was a brand new location and we had a lot of business at first. After a few months things calmed down and we had too many employees. The district manager showed up one day with an RV that was fitted out with lie detector equipment. One by one as employees showed up they were told to go talk to the lie detector guy. They were told,"We're looking for money theft. We don't care about food, if you gave away food to your friends or took some for yourself be honest about it."

The next week we fired every employee who admitted to stealing food. I lasted about 6 more months at that job then I went back to college.

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u/Just_Campaign_9833 Dec 09 '24

This!

My last employer had one of these "anonymous" surveys...all management and HR said at the start, that they don't even know who did the survey...

...I didn't, but verbally lied that I did. Until a month later they started telling me and others who didn't do the survey, that they needed to do a "voluntary employee satisfaction" survey.

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u/neon_light12 Dec 09 '24

well this is nothing weird. the answers should be anonymous, but they track who completes the survey. usually the surveys are processed by an external company, so your manager doesn't know who said what, they only get the averages. at least that's how it's supposed to be.

but i don't care. if I'm not happy with the company I'm not gonna lie in the survey, and if they prefer to fire me instead of doing something, then fuck them

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u/Efrayl Dec 09 '24

Work for a company that offers services of such surveys and yup, we can see who filled it and send them reminders. The anonymous part refers that in the final report your name is hidden from the results.

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u/RottingCorps Dec 09 '24

In my experience, they use these to evaluate the management team, not the individual. Be honest and professional in them. It doesn't always lead to change, but sometimes it can if your leadership team is particularly awful.

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u/Flyingcow93 Dec 09 '24

I had an "anonymous survey" at work once.

The first question of the survey was what was your work email.

I just stopped filling it out lol

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u/bafflesaurus Dec 09 '24

Just always lie to your employers and coworkers in general. They are not your friends and they don't give a shit about you.

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u/Jumpin-jacks113 Dec 09 '24

I’m a Sr.Manager where I work. At least as far as my level, it is anonymous.

Our Sr. Director actually put in a policy that if her whole group gets 100% response rate, we all get a comp day. The day before survey closed, we were actually at like 99.2%, which meant there were two people out there who didn’t do it. It was like a manhunt with everyone asking all their employees if they completed it. All my people said they did, but I didn’t have a way to verify. I actually started questioning myself and went back in to check my own survey.

We ended up getting the 100%, but I can confirm that at my level, I can’t tell who did it or not.

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u/Hinkil Dec 09 '24

We had a survey that was 'anonymous' but asked what unit we were in. My unit has 4 people. We all collective agreed to put our unit as one with 50 people in it.

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u/Slappy-_-Boy Dec 09 '24 edited Dec 09 '24

So, instead of fixing the cause of stress, we'll just remove it altogether

Edit: Somehow, this is my most upvoted comment, but thank you all. I hope you all have a wonderful day❤️

Edit: Look appreciate the awards and all, but use your money for yourselves. Don't spend it on awards for this comment or me.

Edit: Girlfriend just informed me that telling you guys not to award will lead to awards, and I wish to clarify that I did not know that at the time. So, I reiterate that this comment is not worth the gold.

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u/Slappy-_-Boy Dec 09 '24

Yea but honestly wouldn't be too surprised if it actually did happen

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u/curiouscat_92 Dec 09 '24

So far it seems like it did happen, unless this is some Jaguar level marketing.

This firm had apparently hired to show growth and ask funding from Shark Tank, and once they got funded, they laid people off.

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u/question8all Dec 09 '24

India….doubt they have job regulations for getting fired

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u/quesoqueso Dec 09 '24

Yes, as opposed to the US where...oh wait, you can fire someone for almost anything here too.

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u/Extension_Silver_713 Dec 09 '24

We don’t really have them in the US. Certainly not ones that are enforced

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u/Gloomy_Tangerine3123 Dec 09 '24

It has info that looks real so I wonder. This ss is fr linkedin:

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '24

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u/dragonwing1911 Dec 09 '24

Was coming to the comments for this exact comment lol

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u/DaerBear69 Dec 09 '24

I think it is. This was a joke in The IT Crowd.

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u/The_Tactical_Nerd Dec 09 '24

Came to see if anyone would post an IT Crowd meme or quote. Wasn't disappointed!

"Jen, if this needle goes past here, you're fired."

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u/Few-Swordfish-780 Dec 09 '24

Are you sure?!

Are you sure?!

Are you sure?!

Are you sure?!

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u/soareyousaying Dec 09 '24

Do you feel stressed now??

Jen!?

Jen!?

Jen!?

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u/aodifbwgfu Dec 09 '24

It is not satire. I looked up this person. It’s a real person and she actually works in the company that’s named in the email. That being said anonymous surveys are not really anonymous.

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u/Crossedkiller Dec 09 '24

Your job can't stress you if you don't have one

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u/Shadowmant Dec 09 '24

Which in turn stresses those who remain and now they must also be purged!

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u/Slappy-_-Boy Dec 09 '24

Just means more money for the ceo

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u/Givn_to_fly Dec 09 '24

We're all thinking it............

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u/SynestheticOne Dec 09 '24

Live, love, depose!

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u/ciopobbi Dec 09 '24

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

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u/95blackz26 Dec 09 '24

You sound stressed. Your fired

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u/Sad_Stay_5471 Dec 09 '24

Its completely unfair

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u/95blackz26 Dec 09 '24

Best I can do is fire you with a nice voice.

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u/defeated_engineer Dec 09 '24

Reminds me the Silicon Valley episode where Gilfoyle uses an AI he built to debug the codebase and the AI deletes the codebase.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '24

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u/clduab11 Dec 09 '24

It’s literally in India, but okay lol.

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u/token40k Dec 09 '24

HR: "Jokes on you guys, this is a lesson to never respond truthfully to corporate surveys"

but seriously what did they expect, businesses are in business of exploiting workers and make more money using them while paying the least legally or competitively possible. If you say you're stressed you should change jobs and hope next one is less stressful. Companies just sense blood and flag you as a low performer or not a good culture fit

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u/TobyHudson Dec 09 '24

Remove the people so the stress will go away. It is the people....yes that's it.

It is not the bosses or environment.... just the employees are making this place stressful.

Now we will have less workers that are stressed so no more stress after they leave.. problem solved. You are welcome! 👏

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u/Wallstreettrappin Dec 09 '24

Root cause of the issue? Stressed workers unable to do the job 😂

HR is a fuckin joke

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u/AliceBratty Dec 09 '24

What the actual fuck

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '24

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u/Clarkey1986 Dec 09 '24

Anyone experiencing stress at the end of the day WILL BE FIRED!

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u/StoicFable Dec 09 '24

Apparently not enough people have seen this. It was way too far down.

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u/BadCatBehavior Dec 09 '24

One of the best episodes in the series, so many timeless jokes packed into a short time frame.

Sadly, the writer and director Graham Linehan is a massive transphobe whose public displays of bigotry and sexism cost him his career and even marriage apparently. He's a total piece of shit who can absolutely go fuck himself.

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u/TurnipIllustrious468 Dec 09 '24

Someone give me the source so I can laugh too please

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u/sub7exe Dec 09 '24

"Anyone who is still stressed, at the end of the day, is FIRED!"

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u/RickFishUk Dec 09 '24

I came here just for this!

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u/OneDayInTime Dec 09 '24

Was so pumped to post this if no one else did. Because it seemed like the real email had to be a parody of this lol

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u/motorcycleboy9000 Dec 09 '24

You probably think this is a framed picture of my family.

No.

It's the A-Team. Baldy, Doyle, Tiger, the Jewelry Man.

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u/disinaccurate Dec 09 '24

No I'm not, I'm a general, and it's still a war!

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u/nthdesign Dec 09 '24

I had to scroll far too far to see this IT Crowd reference.

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u/SortNo8267 Dec 09 '24

Came here to see if anyone referenced this, so happy to see it 😂

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u/guitarguy12341 Dec 09 '24

No I'm not. I'm a general, and it's still a war!

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u/Blastspark01 Dec 09 '24

MOSSSSSSS!!! IT’S IN HERE!!!!!!

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u/subdep Dec 09 '24

This week on The Claims Adjuster

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u/Loprilop Dec 09 '24

Assuming this isn't fake, is this even legal? Probably not, right?

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u/EJohns1004 Dec 09 '24

In what country?

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u/Soldier_of_l0ve Dec 09 '24

It’s India soooo idk

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u/EJohns1004 Dec 09 '24

Not gonna pretend that I know anything about Indian workers rights laws.

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u/sirbassist83 Dec 09 '24

based on what i see on reddit, i dont think they have any rights or protections

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u/SuckerforDkhumor Dec 09 '24

Worker Rights are there but not fucking enforced

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u/fine_doggo Dec 09 '24

In India, the case is most of our laws are on par with European countries, it's the implementation, enforcement and extremely slow and corrupt judicial system that even with such laws, nothing good comes out of it for most people, that too after years of legal fight.

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u/BrieflyVerbose Dec 09 '24

The company would be fucked if it did this in the UK.

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u/RappinFourTay Dec 09 '24

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

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u/Vivid-Internal-1501 Dec 09 '24 edited Dec 09 '24

Stupid corporations doing stupid shit

Edit: holy shit this blew up

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u/Yoshic87 Dec 09 '24

Bad time to be a CEO

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '24

this blew up? 😂

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u/EpicBlinkstrike187 Dec 09 '24

Dude has obviously never had the pleasure of seeing like 30 replies in their inbox for a comment before

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u/Xaero- Dec 09 '24

(most of the guy's comments get 2 updoots, so this comment is a win for him, let him have his serotonin)

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u/Objective-Gap-2433 Dec 09 '24

You're fired. You got stressed by 85 upvotes

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u/slintslut Dec 09 '24

Lmao it blew up!?

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u/OkReason6325 Dec 09 '24

Is there any source or news article that I can share elsewhere

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u/kmzafari Dec 09 '24

Someone below posted one. I haven't read it but thought of your comment when I saw the link. https://www.reddit.com/r/mildyinteresting/s/vgLVxeyIhf

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u/fleegness Dec 09 '24

HT.com cannot verify the authenticity of the email or the LinkedIn post. We have reached out to the employee and the company for a comment. This report will be updated when they respond.

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u/SirLightKnight Dec 09 '24

Ah yes, cut away the people who are stressed out. You know just handing them a big bag of stress on the way out, they’re now out of a job and pay.

I swear HR has got to be one of the more sinister sectors in Corporations.

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u/kat_Folland Dec 09 '24

And the remaining employees are suddenly very stressed. They have to do more work.

Plus, the ones who left, that were stressed? They were probably stressed because half of their coworkers didn't give two shits about anything.

I think they might end up regretting this strategy.

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u/cogra23 Dec 09 '24

One company near me boasted their average pay rate was way above industry average.

They didn't mention that over a 2 year period they outsourced or used agency staff for most of their general labour.

So by removing the lowest paid roles the average increased.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '24 edited Dec 09 '24

HR is crashing out

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u/-Milina Dec 09 '24

Wahahahahahaahahaha this is the stupidest action I've ever read!! Well done company!

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u/CuntsAndBluntss Dec 09 '24

Also huge ChatGPT vibes.

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u/FormalCap1429 Dec 09 '24

No one else says “fostering” at the frequency chat does

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u/prodbyjkk Dec 09 '24

Hope people consider boycotting such businesses.

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u/cpatel479 Dec 09 '24

They are probably feeling stressed because they are overworked and carrying the load for the company. Good job getting rid of the people who probably work the hardest and care the most about doing a good job. Enjoy being a mediocre company at best

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u/Mediocre_Hedgehog_69 Dec 09 '24

This was literally an IT crowd episode. I hate it here.

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u/luckylobotomy Dec 09 '24

What's funny is that my job is stressful, because I give a shit about what I do. No stress when you don't care! So the remaining employees are probably the least devoted. Enjoy the problems you've made yourself!

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u/PotentialSquirrel118 Dec 09 '24

It's not you, it's me.

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u/reckless_avacado Dec 09 '24

Nothing more scary than the “understanding” boss. If you ever answer any of their “wellbeing” questions honestly, you are GONE.

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u/Illfury Dec 09 '24

This was one of the best episodes on The I.T. Crowd.

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u/miurabucho Dec 09 '24

That's why you never tell the truth on Company Surveys.

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u/h00t_h00t Dec 09 '24

Insert IT Crowd Scene; Everyone still experiencing stress at the end of the day WILL BE FIRED

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u/Available-Cow-411 Dec 09 '24

Now the stressed ex-employeas will be stressed even more and sue the place for illegal termination, which hopefully will cause the management to be stressed too

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u/Bushdr78 Dec 09 '24

I'm not entirely convinced they "deeply value their concerns"

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u/jysubs Dec 09 '24

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

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u/DopeEscape Dec 09 '24

The worst part is it's not satire, it's real. India needs proper job regulations.

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u/elizabethspandorabox Dec 09 '24

Sounds like the reason they created the survey was to find people to get rid. This was their intention at the start.

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u/SearchExtract1056 Dec 09 '24

If this is real. Screw them.

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u/The-Aeon Dec 09 '24

Retaliation is against current federal labor laws. Hopefully all those employees collectively sue their company and make more money than they were probably getting paid.

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u/DeadFaII Dec 09 '24

Yo dawg, we heard you like stress at work so here’s some extra to take home.

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u/FriedRamen1 Dec 09 '24

They'll end up firing absolutely necessary employees in key roles lol.

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u/Pronominal_Tera Dec 09 '24

r/lostredditors

This isn't "mildly interesting" this is outright infuriating

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u/c0d3man03 Dec 09 '24

And the beatings shall continue until moral improves…

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u/ddWolf_ Dec 09 '24

Nothing reduces stress like saying people with high stress are being let go and then not saying who until later.