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?
The most surprising thing I learned from this video is that WebMD still exists
The best thing to happen from WebMD is we got a bunch of actual medical providers like Mayo Clinic, University of Maryland, Merck Manual that went, “GAH! No!!” and made actually informative, updated medical websites.
Healthline, kids. Healthline is where we go for our medical information.
Surprisingly stubby Wiki! “Reception” section pretty weak. Surprised they haven’t fleshed their page out. Why do you trust them?
Because I think quality of presentation is not being factored into the assessments you’re seeing on that wiki.
I tend to recommend Healthline to the public because it clearly targets a lay audience, and chooses to meet that audience where they live. It’s written the way I talk to my patients, and the information is accurate and accessibly easier to read.
Just look at the difference between the pages on hypertension from Healthline and MedlinePlus:
https://www.healthline.com/health/high-blood-pressure-hypertension
https://medlineplus.gov/highbloodpressure.html
The details and accuracy of the information is not different. But the way Healthline presents it is so much more accessible.
Thanks :-)
Glad to know the marketing company who owns them (and Bankrate, I see) is doing a good job!
I’m surprised it’s an actual business with employees, and not some fat dude in his basement.
A fat dude in his basement would be more helpful than WebMD
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.
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.
Slaves don’t get paid
Are you unfamiliar with the concept of wage slaves?
Ah looks like you’re not familiar with history then
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.
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.
Everyone is so desperate to kill their workers, and then they’ll say, “Nobody wants to work anymore.”
Translation: WebMD is trying to get employees to self-terminate rather than initiating a round of layoffs.
Well aren’t they big and bad…
“We’ve invested heavily in our cooperate headquarters and if people realize that offices are unnecessary in the modern workplace we’ll lose millions.”
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
Close-quartered offices are disease farms. Stress lowers your immune system.
WebMD wants to make its workers unhealthy.
Yes they are. As I am at home with COVID for the 4th time. I interviewed a guy in a small room a week ago Friday, and he coughed all through the interview. I was masked. He wasn’t. Two of us caught it. And I found out today they hired the clown. There are strong desires to cuss him out on his first day. Fuck that guy.
That tracks. WebMD is a terrible source of medical information.
I remember using it long ago and no matter what your symptoms were you most likely have cancer.
Apparently the cancer is coming from inside the building!
Would be a real shame if the 1% gets fucked on properties that nobody in their right mind will work in.
" 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.
WebMD, the site that gives a diagnosis of ‘cancer’ for everything.
Your comment gave me cancer.
I was coughing and had a little congestion. Now I’m getting chemo, thanks WebMD!
well? did i solve the congestion? /s
My nose fell off, it was great!
Thanks, nose cancer!
Hi hi!
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I just assume it’s a convoluted way to present Loss.
of head, specifically.
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Kinda looks like Ferb’s head from Phineas and Ferb.
Clearly it’s a giraffe!
Oh, oh, OhhH!! I think it’s supposed to be a guillotine
100 percent… Bad ASCI guillotine
And a donut.
It’s dignity. DIGNiTY!
Fuckingcapitalists
I would strangle everyone who appeared in this video.
