The mental health of people who undertake mindfulness or meditation courses offered by their employer is generally no better than those who are not offered such programmes
      • thefartographer@lemm.eeEnglish
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        10 months ago

        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.

  • LoamImprovement@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It’s the thing that bothers me about the obligatory 1-on-1s we do every month with our supervisors, asking “On a scale from 1 to 10, what’s your stress level? Are you dealing with any personal issues?” And the one time I pipe up and say, “Yeah, they raised my rent $300 and it’s putting strain on my budget.” The response was “Do you know anyone who could move in or that you could move in with to alleviate that?” I haven’t gotten a raise in two years. Fuck this shit. Don’t act like you care.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Aaahhhh nothing like a bozo mid level manager Karen deciding that we’d all be so much happier if we’d do these stupid ass corporate retreats where we all have to do mind numbingly stupid games like blindfold a group, hold eachother, and they all blindly have to follow the leader. I’d lead the entire group into a swirling river and teach the fuckers the real lesson.

    Sorry, but this shit pisses me off.

    Here we have mid level manager karen2 deciding she is a psychologist because she watched a YouTube video about sharing so now we’re going to obligatory share about our personal lives every Monday morning to increase productivity!

    I’m not going “kill me now” but I might be tempted to “kill you now” with that nonsense.

    I helped organize Friday afternoon parties at one of the last companies I worked at and we made fucking sure it was just a nice get together. We got beers, snacks, drinks, good music and you could come and stay or not, whatever, it was just a nice activity focussed on just actually honestly being nice, and THAT actually improved bonds between people, started friendships, improved office ambiance… It got me my wife!