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?
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!
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.
" 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.
This will definitely push all accounting, data entry and other such office workers to the heights of creativity and inventiveness - just what they need! /s
If they get to stay home then why can’t I?!?
That’s really it’s about.
The only people that should be in the office are people who literally need to be there.
Like if there are physical servers and they need to be physically configured then sure the tech can go in for that.
If it’s a repair show, then sure the tech has to come in to do the repair.
Otherwise let people stay home.
I’ve hypothesized that they want people in person so that the things they won’t say over a network can be said in person.
They do it because they invested in the property and want to make it worth their while. Now they can enforce some stupid productivity policies while you are there.
Oh I emphatically agree - I have a fully remote job and not even doubling my salary would make me consider switching to an office one. I was just clumsily trying to point out that a lot of corporate positions don’t require all that creativity and collaboration bullshit that clueless executives love to throw around in videos like this one.
I have a fully remote job and not even doubling my salary would make me consider switching to an office one.
The funny thing is that if the corporate masters every figured out that they could retain employees who were tempted by higher salaries just by keeping them comfortable, they still wouldn’t do it.
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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?
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.
Ah looks like you’re not familiar with history then
The most surprising thing I learned from this video is that WebMD still exists
I’m surprised it’s an actual business with employees, and not some fat dude in his basement.
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.
Everyone is so desperate to kill their workers, and then they’ll say, “Nobody wants to work anymore.”
Close-quartered offices are disease farms. Stress lowers your immune system.
WebMD wants to make its workers unhealthy.
That tracks. WebMD is a terrible source of medical information.
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.
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.
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.
so strikin’ time then?
I would boycott them, but I never use them anyway
good job, to both of us, for boycotting them early!
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I was just casually googling this video and came across this absurdity. I don’t dare give them views to find out the answer.
They want people back “for the simple reason” that they work better together. Well, yeah, I’d agree, without a pandemic.
But healthy people work even better.
What hits me about this video is how unprofessional it is. None of these people are people I would want to work with.
Fuckingcapitalists
Well aren’t they big and bad…
I would strangle everyone who appeared in this video.
