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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.
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It’s a disgusting and utterly tone deaf marketing stunt then
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.”
@enbyecho@lemmy.world you were correct. it’s nice to be vindicated but annoying that the internet will never stop falling for obvious bait like this.
Additionally, the company introduced a ‘De-stress Leave Policy’, allowing employees to avail up to six paid leaves annually for mental health and rejuvenation
Wow, such generosity! Also, they did write that they are ‘family’ in the statement 🌚
And “in home massages” where that means the CEO will come over and massage you if you are pretty and they have a fake promotion to dangle over them.
Nope. This is real and the company straight up fired over 100 people.
Check again…it was a publicity stunt.
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).
There’s a news article linked in another comment.
It was real, and 100 people were fired.
In response, YES Madam stated on LinkedIn, apologising for any distress caused by the campaign. The company stated that it “would never take such a step” and that the action was intended to draw attention to the critical issue of workplace stress. source
I don’t even know what you were citing, but now that the news is out let this be a lesson to not just take everything in the news for granted. All the slop outlets were just reading the same screenshot in this post verbatim and did no original reporting.
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.
I had a coworker who had this happen at a former search company in the US.
Don’t need India for stories like that: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uKsD_5GCY1Y
PirateSoftware Blizzard story
It’s India. Of course it’s not fake.
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.
Well, that is going to backfire because they just made all new stress for the current employees
And have learned that lying is the best policy
Yeah, they did, but the remaining employees won’t dare complain about it so management sees this as a twofer win.
Beatings will continue until morale improves.
The stressed employees were almost certainly the high performers lmao
And when output and production drop 35% next quarter, you can be damn sure they’ll whip out the “We’re a family here!!!” talk as they announce even more layoffs to pad the bottom line.
Literal IT Crowd episode.
Have a bath? NO. GET A BIKE.
Are you stressed… JEN
And they just included them all in the ‘to’ instead of bcc. Very professional.
That email is company wide, not specific to those fired
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Totally - just pointing out that implied in the first comment was those included in the email were the fired ones when that’s not the case
Ah you’re right, I missed the “impacted employees will receive” line. Tired skimming fails again.
Easy mistake to make - it wasn’t exactly front and center
Yes, but you always BCC large groups like that to prevent reply-all disasters.
100% - it’s obviously a company run by slack jawed morons but the original comment had assumed it was only those affected getting the email, which is a different context
I was once on a massive reply-all chain. Most of the emails were “stop replying all!” But one made me chuckle. “I like these emails it makes me feel important.”
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I was once in a reply all email chain where one person got so irrate at everyone else that a subreddit was created just to post memes about this person. I wish I could remember the sub name, but it was years ago and the sub probably isnt there anymore anyway.
Reminds me of /fucktsarevich, a sub only for hating a particularly arrogant and unpleasant character in Genshin Impact…
It’s more the quest that’s the problem than the NPC.
The NPC has a repeatable quest that has a random really low chance of being available on each IRL day. It will become unavailable again the next day regardless of if you do it or not and if you were successful or not.
The quest has three different paths. Doing each path successfully at least once gives you an achievement that’s prob the hardest to get in the game, because of how low the chance of it spawning on a given day and you logging on to the game and checking if it is available that day are. And it has to be repeated at least three times (more if you fail the quest).
The rewards are negligible but completionists get understandably pissed off.
I have seen the exact same behavior here Canada with companies that are led by Indians. They treat it like a sweatshop. and this was an office.
There was quite a few in the UK as well, mostly in Leicester (large Indian immigrant population there). People being paid £3 an hour when it should have been about £8 at the time.
If you buy cheap clothes from the likes of BooHoo you should know that they’re made in these places, and if you buy expensive clothes, then they’re probably made in the exact same conditions with a nicer label sewn in the back and a better PR department to handwave away any wrongdoing.
I work with a few Indian development teams, and “sweatshop” is an apt description. We work on software dependencies, as specified by them. After we deliver, they decide it’s not what they wanted, change the specs and treat it as a “drop everything else” bug. It gives me no greater pleasure than telling them to relax, that we’ll get to it in due time when we have the capacity. I like to think that a few of their managers already popped a vein.
Has this been reported? If this Is in Canada there are worker protection services…
yes it has been and these places still exist today. They especially love taking advantage of their own.
That really sucks 🙁
Once the international students go home (hopefully) here in Canada this will not happen anymore, because Canadian’s wouldn’t stand for it
Any chance you could be anymore racist with your demands? “I blame the Indians” (while working in Canada). “Once the International people leave it will be fixed!” (still, working in Canada).
How about highlighting a specific company who’s founded from India and treating employees bad in your neighboring Canadian community that has impacted you? Maybe some news articles or reports of the mishandling and abuse? Or we can just vaguely and anecdotally continue blaming “THEM” and anyone who’s International?!
Remember, Anti-work doesn’t mean Anti-immigrant.
how is that racist? I don’t hate Indians. I said international students.
Hating companies you perceive from a certain ethnic community is also racist. Are all “Indian” companies like this or are you making blanket statements against a race? Are all the companies exploiting workers founded from India, or again, are we singling out an ethnic group as antagonists while ignoring the governing body? Can someone be born in India, become a Canadian citizen, operate a company under Canadian law and on their soil, and it’s still the “Indians” fault?
You’re right about the international student part, that would be Xenophobia added onto racism.
- A fear of strangers or foreigners. 2. A strong antipathy or aversion to strangers or foreigners.
I’ve been subject to the same treatment by a white person in Canada. Three out of my 5 colleagues were from India because apparently they were the only ones that could take it. They didn’t fire me they made my life hell until I quit because of my mental health crisis. They made me sign bad performance reviews, the manager and her assistant shouted and screamed at me and made me work on holidays and kept accusing me of things that are not true until I quit. They did this to other people as well and no one had any grounds to sue them because they knew how to play the game. It’s not just Indians that do this in Canada. Some Canadians do it too. This happen in the national capital region no less.
Yes I have been treated like shit from “white” managers as well (although i don’t know what white means here).
Probably just a front for tech support scam call center anyway.
Where did we go so wrong man
Whenever you are having a bad day just remember you had like 1/4 chance of spawning in India
There are ten livestock animals in captivity for every one human. You’re still lucky to be born a human anywhere on earth, because we are the monsters.
I remember it, and then I remember I’m in that 1/4th
I have spawned in a very similar place soo. Eeh
I’m from Pakistan, which should be even more similar to India than Turkey is.
oh hi 😞
Why is India that way?
This has got to be from The Onion… Right?
More like the onion banji
(Ba-dum tsh)
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This is wow, I mean we are used to a lot, but wow.
They also write “100% Purely Bhartiya Brand” on their (really terrible) page. I am not indian, so I might be wrong, but this raises some questionmarks.
If anyone has questions about what bhartiya means, it means Indian.
So the whole phrase means 100% purely Indian company. Equivalent to the phrase 100% purely American company.
In both countries, this could indicate alignment with the ultra nationalist party in power who have been espousing a push to produce goods within the country instead of importing from china, or just a normal support local businesses thing.
If my business is local, buying from local suppliers as much as possible and employing local people it shouldn’t matter at all, if these local employees are ethnically the same and all have the same nationality.
So i would take it more as the former, ultra nationalist.
I do think it’s more likely to be the former.
But I wouldn’t take “100% American company” to mean all employees are American citizens. I would take it to mean that all employees are living in and working from the US. Which makes it more ambiguous than your interpretation of the phrase.
Yeah and the “100% purely American” would raise a lot of red flags for me…
So fucked up
