This leaked today from inside webmd, the most bullshit corpo HR video I think I’ve ever seen.
To break down the obvious ones:
- Employees who are obviously either drinking wayyy too much company koolaid or who know that their jobs will end if they aren’t in this video
- An extremely out of touch CEO who wants things back the old way without giving any concrete data proving that it’s better beyond conjecture
- A company with “internet” in the name who literally doesn’t understand the concept of the internet
- Threatening and bullying language to force people back in office.
- and just a nice touch, the office is of course not near mass transit or anything and requires driving in
- Did anyone notice they were all on green screen, kinda proving that there was no need for them to be in person?
Fuckingcapitalists
Of the office is so good, why did they green screen it instead of actually going there?
That’s what I just noticed too! Did noone think people would notice that none of the people were actually physically there?!
Phoning it in for the video telling people they must physically go. Typical corporate bullshit.
Yup! If it’s that important, why doesn’t your company pay for everyone to drive to and from work (covering gas, car repairs, and allowing employees to clock in when they start their commute.)Also, pay for everyone’s lunch since they have to be there.
this seems like a tactic so people quit instead of having to do layoffs.
Everyone is so desperate to kill their workers, and then they’ll say, “Nobody wants to work anymore.”
I don’t understand why you even need employees if your entire website is just this weird little game that you can’t win or lose and ends with “cancer”. It is like the traditional labyrinth, go right or go left or go straight, don’t matter. As long as you keep moving you are going to always get to the same spot. There are early 2000s flash games that had more complexity.
People keep talking about corporate real estate and how companies need ppl in offices or the value would crash. But wouldnt the company stand to benefit in the long run by just biting the bullet on the remainder of their lease, not renew, and go 100% remote? Or at least drastically downsize.
Would that not save millions in overhead, lease payments, etc into the future? Or do they have 30 year lease agreements or something?
They might own the building. They definitely have at least a 10 year lease, that’s standard for commercial lease agreements.
I’m so glad I work for a medium-small company. We moved to a smaller office and only require to go in twice a month
A company may ask things of their employees, it’s not a free for all…
If it’s that important, why doesn’t WebMD pay for everyone to drive to and from work (covering gas, car repairs, and allowing employees to clock in when they start their commute.)Also, pay for everyone’s lunch since they have to be there.
Sure sure. Completely agree.
And employees may say no.
“We’ve invested heavily in our cooperate headquarters and if people realize that offices are unnecessary in the modern workplace we’ll lose millions.”
in 2021 my job was “informing, not asking”. a bunch of us walked, and it crippled the OU. They actually shut it down not long ago, they decided to keep a skeleton crew on to keep the app running while the contracts run out, then they’re gonna sunset it
lmao gg. The absolute disrespect to even say “informing, not asking” unironically. Pretty sure these people see us as slaves at some level.
Honestly, if they said only that part in a memo, it would still obviously be very bad but it would be so much better than embedding it within this video. If I were an employee watching this, when they reached the part where they play Iko Iko while people dance after the CEO delivered the ultimatum, I’d want to shoot myself in the fucking head.
Slaves don’t get paid
Ah looks like you’re not familiar with history then
Are you unfamiliar with the concept of wage slaves?
Plenty of slaves received wages throughout plenty of historical periods. Read a book.
Of course, you have freedom of choice. You can choose between eating a shit sandwich or a tube of tile grout compound.
They won’t admit it of course, but to save on raw material costs, since 2011 the tile grout has been actually harvested from truck stop restrooms.
TBH was WebMD ever actually reputable? They’re like the Forbes of the medical world except Forbes actually used to be good.
For doctors as a reference tool, seems that way. For the layman? You have cancer.
Wait what? Doctors are using the “you’ve got cancer” website? Mother of fuck that is terrifying
I found several historical articles that indicated that at one time it was a useful source for medical papers. I can’t speak to the veracity of it, just reporting what I found by asking if WebMD was ever reliable
" Internet Brands did not respond to a request for comment, except to say that people were busy with meetings. "
Lololololol
Fuck them. It sounds like they’re too bust having meetings instead of getting work done.
Sounds like a whole lotta quittin’ time.
That is the intent of RTO policies, yes. It’s a lot cheaper to compel workers to quit rather than fire them.
so strikin’ time then?
What if you just pretend you don’t know what RTO is and stay home anyway
That’s literally what a bunch of Amazon employees (engineers and stuff, not like warehouse workers) were doing, and last time I checked it was actually going weirdly well…?
I barely even read my corporate bullshit emails. Unless my actual boss is telling me something, IDGAF.
Same thing is happening a lot of places. One large american company that I’m not going to mention is doing several rounds of layoffs along with a return to office initiative.
It’s Amazon.
That’s not the one I was talking about, but it doesn’t surprise me.
Kind of balsy for a software company that is basically running a web page to replace office visits with a doctor…
“informing, not asking”
To any employees out there, don’t be someone else’s biotch.
Demand for workers is at one of its highest points right now.
There are other jobs out there, but you only have one respect for yourself.
(The above is said assuming that the company is not trying to just shed employees. If that is the case, then stay and give them hell. Only you can determine the state of the company you’re working at, financially.)
Time to unionize WebMD. Maybe the union can turn it into a decent website.
I would strangle everyone who appeared in this video.
