The Red Rose

Daily meetings are a tool for oppression of the human spirit

This is really the truth, all those bullshit morning activities are textbook cult tactics by corporations meant to indoctrinate people into the company, i can assure if they had more power corporations would reinstate company towns and create corporate cults.

In my case it's mostly doing meetings because the methodology says so, not because they need to be done. But I have seen other software companies do some cult-adjacent shit

What do you think the whole 'where a family not just a business' is for, it trying to force a form of intimate connection? That's also why they've been pushing against working from home, why they've tried monitor said employees and invading their spaces? Also your complaint falls within this as within a corporate setting innovation and change is stifled under nepotism and bureaucracy. I personally believe neoliberalism and capitalism is a death cult that would rather end us all rather than end itself.

Daily meetings are a tool for oppression of the human spirit

This is really the truth, all those bullshit morning activities are textbook cult tactics by corporations meant to indoctrinate people into the company, i can assure if they had more power corporations would reinstate company towns and create corporate cults.

My last post about my job reminded me of how like, shitty things are here right now, no one knows what’s going on, we’re reeling from the layoffs, and we’re certain our department is being dissolved soon since the overseas teams are taking on more and more and more of our responsibilities. Anyways, the mood around here isn’t great, which lead to the absolute worst work meeting I’ve ever sat through.

Our new Manager had flown out to Utah to meet us face to face (since every manager who worked in this office had been laid off with zero warning) and when I went to the meeting to meet him it was unequivocally the worst corporate meeting I had ever been to. The dude was spiraling.

It was just the new manager going “yeah no no one knows why everyone we loved at company was fired after years of service corporate just made the decision without telling us. I had a lot of friends here and I miss them. I’ve been working here for 8 years and I don’t know if I’ll get fired too. Idk if our department is going to get shut down too. It might it might not.”

And then shit really started going off the rails. He just kind of started sharing his anxieties about life?? Like “I don’t like to go to the movie theater anymore because them and the schools are always getting shot up.” Just a total non-sequitur, and then he finally pulled together enough to end it with the horrifyingly depressing “But did you know? We spend more time with each other at work than we do with our loved ones and families? I pull like, 60- hour work weeks here and my wife works nights so we see each other for only 10 hours a week. Isn’t that interesting? Anyways have a good rest of your workday”

WHAT THE FUCK?! It was like supposed to be a motivational meeting but it failed on all fronts. It lives in my head rent free because it was such a fucking train wreck. It was like a month ago and I am still in awe. I don’t think I could ever forget it. It’s like he was intentionally trying to make us feel worse about the situation. I straight up do not think he was doing well. I hope he’s like… doing better because Jesus Christ.

Ain't this the absolute truth.