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- health@lemmy.world
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- health@lemmy.world
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Beatings will continue until morale improves
Here, have a slice of pizza.
My boss bought me pizza once! It wasn’t as good as the pizzas I used to buy myself, but who can afford non-work-pizza anymore?
I think work-pizza is making my teeth hurt, but my ex-dentist is all like “tell your job to pay me.”
Hey, do any of y’all wake up crying, too? My boss says it’s allergies in my home; my boss is so nice, they’ll even let me stay at work extra-long so I don’t have to deal with my home-allergies and they only need me to do extra work without telling anyone in exchange!
Anyway, I don’t love work-pizza, but it’s better than waking up crying!
Whoops! Another tooth fell out… I bet the new ones are gonna look beautiful when they grow back in like my boss said they will.
The writers for Outer Worlds are here folks ;)
Oh wow! You think my writing is good enough that people might think I’m semi-literate??? Of all the replies I’ve ever received, this is definitely one of them, and I’ll likely sometimes remember it!
either because they hadn’t been offered them or because they didn’t take their company up on the offer
Are they talking about the “Get fired for depression” button on the company website that no one presses because entering in all your personal info is the oppsite of anonymous?
Worst misclick of your life hitting this thing.
Also: This survey is completely anonymous, please don’t share this unique link though.
Its almost as though our horrible corporate culture and financial insecurity can’t be solved by cynically implementing said programs 🤷♂️
In my experience these things are always a box-checking exercise to justify some useless person’s job. As others are pointing out, participation can backfire because now the bosses know you have personal problems. (Everyone has personal problems, but formal admission will be punished in our toxic work-always-comes-first culture.)
It’s a shame, because such programs administered in good faith could truly help people. But helping workers is never the real objective. It’s only for the optics. “Look, we did a thing to address this”.
My workplace recently started doing a “Path to the Weekend” initiative. This is a mandatory meeting held at 5pm on a Friday for an hour about every month, where we have to have extroverted style discussions such as “tell us about 2 new things you accomplished in your personal life since the last meeting.”.
It’s hell.
Time to start seeing just how “mandatory” they’re talking.
That or I would just have one stock answer every week. “I like to keep my personal life out of your fucking meetings.”
And then you get branded “the combative one” and get laid off first when they consider layoffs
Y’all need unions lol
We used to hold an unofficial after hours on Fridays, not mandatory, where we’d shoot the shit, sometimes about work, sometimes about outside work. It was mostly to decompress after the week with a drink or two. It was effective at bringing everyone together but it only worked because it was optional and a relaxed environment. Mandatory fun doesn’t work.
Raise our wages and our bills will be paid, and our mental health will get better
Also stop forcing people to commute into the office. We were happier at home.
I like (most of) the people I work with, and my boss is pleasant, sane, and reasonable. That does more than any bullshit “well-being initiative” ever could.
They know. But that sort of work environment takes planning, good leadership, and broader company values than just short-term profit. So it’s far easier and cheaper to throw you the occasional pizza party, company T-shirt, and 10% off mental health services.
This is why work-from-home is superior. No one ever sends me follow-up on why I didn’t do $dumb_corporate_shit this week.
I dunno, I get $25 every quarter for wearing the same pedometer I did before I worked there. 4 extra wellness days each year, which are basically extra paid holidays that you don’t have family obligations tied to. Learning budgets to get me certifications on their dime. Month long paid sebatical after 3 years every 3 years.
Some wellness programs are alright. If the company actually means it.
If the company actually means it
There’s the key phrase. I’ve worked at 5 different places during my professional career. Not once has any “wellness seminar,” “wellness week,” or wellness-what-have-you has been as fruitful as you’re describing.
I’ve never gotten a wellness day nor a bonus for wearing a pedometer or being active in any manner. At absolute best, in all the places I’ve worked, I went to an optional meeting that had an interesting breathing exercise. But the rest of the meeting was dumb fluff like “don’t work more than 40 hours,” “tell your lead that you are over stressed,” “don’t spend money on stuff you can’t afford.”
Absolute worst case scenario so far, a week of mandatory 1 hour meetings each day required from HR. Every day was repeating the same garbage as above and could’ve just been an email. Also, even though HR requires the meetings, your manager still requires 40hrs of “project effort.” Meaning required overtime. I did not stay long at this job.
Something like what you are describing would be a breath of fresh air.
Here’s a solution: Nationalize all major industries.
Perfect! I’d been looking for an easy way to get rid of both the baby and the bathwater.
Have you tried rampant, unchecked capitalism? You can get a lot of money for both those things in the right circles.
I dunno, that sounds suspiciously like… socialism! (gasp):-P
Oh no! Anything but that!!
Democratize the workplace!
Exactly this. We wouldn’t tolerate not being able to vote on healthcare decisions outside of work - why should we accept not being able to vote on benefits inside of work.
Worked great for the postal service!
Next I want to see a study of these annoying wellness progroms that take basic health info and then shove healthy behavior down your throat.
It took me a while to figure it out but I ignore all that crap now.
What I do think would actually be helpful is assistance buying health club memberships or exercise equipment. A bike helps me be healthier. Nagging does not.
Or, better yet, take your health information then lose it all in a security breach you won’t hear about until years later (hi Anthem!)
All for a measly $25 credit for health expenses that you have up jump through 8 hoops to actually get
free subscription to some meditation app?
employee mental health well-being is secured!
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I run my own small business. I complained to my boss about burnout, but it was me, so I’m fucked. ;)
