Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
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#2“A retreat may feel more relaxed than the office, but it is still a workplace, and the power dynamics don’t disappear,”
Ah, so sad :( Another story of a person who believed other people in the workplace too much.
These kinds of exercises are unfortunately a waste of time. If you’re honest, you’re walking into a minefield. But if you’re not being open, then no one is really getting to know anyone else in any meaningful way. In the end, a bunch of money and time is spent with zero value gained.
And given that this was about someone sharing their experience with a medical procedure to help them process the death of a parent, the company will probably lose the lawsuit, wasting even more money.
What a tragic waste of resources. Also, my heart goes out to this person. Loosing a parent is terrible.
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#3Google banned political conversations at work. Tech companies are learning from first principles why work/life separation, traditional office culture exist.
Re: Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
#4Google banned political conversations at work. Tech companies are learning from first principles why work/life separation, traditional office culture exist.
Remember why they erased the separation in the first place: to get massive unpaid overtime.
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#5Remember this story the next time someone says "join our mission" or "bring your whole self to work". They all come with asterisks.
Re: Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
#6Google banned political conversations at work. Tech companies are learning from first principles why work/life separation, traditional office culture exist.
It seems the message of schizophrenic corporate America is, "don't bring your humanity to work". Because what is politics but an expression of how society should be. Even more ridiculous is this trust exercise, their idea is for employees to show their human side to improve employee-employee relationships for higher productivity, but wait, not too much of the human side!
No wonder all the CEOs are crazy about AI. All the intelligence, none of the human.
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#7Don't engage in a parasocial relationship with your employer. They're not your friends.
Re: Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
#8" including one incident where Baillie performed a Guinness-related party trick after colleagues asked him to show it off."
Is this just splitting the G? If so, it's the most mundane thing in the history of alcohol related party tricks.
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#9So like that interview candidate being asked about the hardest day of their life and answering honestly about a miscarriage or did this guy do something inappropriate with some ping pong balls in a Guinness-record way?
Re: Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
#10Google banned political conversations at work. Tech companies are learning from first principles why work/life separation, traditional office culture exist.
It seems the message of schizophrenic corporate America is, "don't bring your humanity to work". Because what is politics but an expression of how society should be. Even more ridiculous is this trust exercise, their idea is for employees to show their human side to improve employee-employee relationships for higher productivity, but wait, not too much of the human side! No wonder all the CEOs are crazy about AI. All…
Meh, some people’s politics have very little to do with humanity and how society should be. In general, best approach is to avoid GRAPE topics in general.