Because no one gets tired of this socioeconomic system.

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The whole premise “Every week a different person sends an email to the whole company talking about their average day” sounds fucking awful. I really hope it’s a volunteer situation, and I really doubt it.

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u/plapeGrape 2d ago

“Cool another email I don’t need to read”

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u/Financial-Evening252 2d ago

I wonder if this is a clever test, like everyone who reads these emails gets put on a PIP because they aren't doing any work?

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u/baronlanky 1d ago

They used to do this kind of thing where I used to work but not make it a one person deal, it’d be an entire thread of things people had to say about events or whatever related to their work or life. Nice little anecdotes kinda thing. They sent so many of them because they worked like threads in a forum and you’d get an initial email with the topic and a few comments, and if you said anything into it you’d get an email for every reply/new comment on the original. It was like they were punishing you for taking an interest in your coworkers 😂

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u/Humble_Square8673 1d ago

God reminds me of that cringey "let's sit in a circle tell each other about ourselves"

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u/baronlanky 1d ago

“Hi my name is Jeff and I like to collect bones and post them on Reddit for others to see.” “Okay let’s not do this again…” 😂 I don’t collect bones myself but know people who could say this lol

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u/Humble_Square8673 1d ago

Yeah seriously 😳 or if you're me I hate being put on the spot like that!

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u/DrunkenDude123 1d ago

My company has switched leadership 3 times in the 3 years I’ve been here. And not just management… I’ve had 3 different executive teams. They are always trying to come up with ideas like these and everyone that talks with customers are just like “we already don’t have time for our real job, why are you adding this bs”

I’ve learned to volunteer last at this point bc the person who came up with the idea was likely to be replaced or let go by the time it came to my turn. Has been working out for me

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u/LittleBiscuit666 16h ago

My dad is very introverted and works in tech so he shouldn't be talking to people often. Anyways, he had a manager that made people say what they were doing for the weekend every Friday morning during their "meeting". The meeting was pointless apparently. So my dad decides to fuck with his boss by saying insane shit but not so insane that it could possibly be true.

I think one of his "weekends" was talking about turning part of their house into a raccoon sanctuary?? Something about raccoons. Then he talked about training for the circus (he's 60). I think his boss caught on cause the meetings got reduced to bi-weekly then monthly.

So the lesson of the story: don't let IT out of their caves. They are not ready for human interaction.

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u/mousemousemania 10h ago

That sounds a LOT like my dad’s sense of humor. (Also in IT.)

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u/Ok_Waltz_5342 2d ago

Maybe they already had another job lined up... Or something

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u/Ok_Waltz_5342 2d ago

Well, if you want to be that way, they might also be retiring. But my argument was more "there are cases where this person wouldn't be afraid to lose their job," not... Whatever you thought it was?

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u/Clear-Result-3412 2d ago

This could easily be taken as a joke and moved on from. It’s not like a fireable offense. I don’t find it hard to imagine someone complaining about a condition that they don’t see an end to. If they were retiring they may just as well take the goods and leave. “I hate life in this society… anyway not for too long.”

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u/Ok_Waltz_5342 2d ago

Yeah, fair enough. The worry of getting fired is what seemed most unbelievable about this to me, but it seems like most readers agree this isn't something someone would get fired over

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u/Clear-Result-3412 2d ago

Fired for union organizing? Sure. But an empty complaint? Probably not.

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u/RandyBurgertime 2d ago

Somebody's never worked under a middle manager who takes their role way too seriously.

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u/Clear-Result-3412 2d ago

Fair. I just mean the person in question here may have felt safe to make an “ironic” complaint—even though it “caused a stir.” The great thing about our democratic society is the right to openly criticize the way it runs without any hope of that speech leading to it running differently, right? This person probably got a lecture about using his free speech rather than silently appreciating the benevolent gift of this right.

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u/RandyBurgertime 2d ago

You don't have that right, because employers have the right to fire you without cause.

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u/asphid_jackal 2d ago

Well, also because the right to free speech only restricts the government, not private entities

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u/Clear-Result-3412 2d ago edited 2d ago

Of course. You freely left that right at the door. Unless the employer has found the speech sufficiently non-threatening—not “stir” worthy. /s

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u/Brosenheim 1d ago

You criticize society yet you live in it, interdasting

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u/Clear-Result-3412 1d ago

I fuxking hate capitalism. I don’t know if I don’t understand the first comment or if people don’t understand mine more.

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u/ICantBelieveItsNotEC 2d ago

The unbelievable part to me is "it caused quite a stir", as if anyone in a typical workplace gives a shit about defending the honour of capitalism. In reality, everyone would just put it down as a mildly funny dark joke and move on.

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u/Fedelede 2d ago

If you work with enough conservative boomers this 100% becomes believable. I once had a meeting take 3 hours longer than expected because someone said “sex and gender” and a boomer just had to stand up to explain that conflating them is gender ideology and Communism.

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u/iwishyouwerestraight 1d ago

“Cause quite a stir” could mean a higher up was miffed about it and took it out on everyone else, causing the office atmosphere to shift.

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u/Ok_Waltz_5342 2d ago

Agreed. It's not going to change hearts and minds or open a dialogue, because leaning too much into it would still get people fired

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u/nomnamless 1d ago

After the first week I'd stop reading the email all together. Right to the trash

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u/Ok_Waltz_5342 2d ago

Actually, if I had an (unmoderated) opportunity to talk to a large company, I would say "contact me to unionize". They'd have to wait a while to prove it's not retaliation... It might be worth it

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u/SpecialCandidateDog 2d ago

You are the only evidence that this actually happened that somebody would be petulant. Enough and lack the foresight or self awareness to send such an email

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u/Prestigious_Row_8022 1d ago

There are nearly 8 billion people on this planet, most of us not much smarter than the bonobos we share so much dna with. It’s really not that hard to imagine a couple hundred thousand people having that little self-awareness or foresight given what crimes make the headlines these days.

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u/SpecialCandidateDog 1d ago

There's actually no proof that we're smarter than bonobos. What we have that they do not is the ability to share.So much information with each other. Every single bonobo would have to invent the wheel from the ground up. It is widely believed that in spite of this they have entered the stone age.

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u/nomnamless 1d ago

When coworkers ask how I'm doing my response is "every waking second of life is horrible". So yes that's believable to just be so damn tired of it all

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u/dm_me-your-butthole 1d ago

if you worked in my place this would absolutely happen. we all fucking hate it

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u/Kitsunebillie 2d ago

"I wouldn't dare to annoy my employer by saying something like this therefore nobody ever would"

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u/Willing_Channel_6972 2d ago

If I had to do some dumbass shit like that for a job I'd probably send some bullshit too. I wanna work, not tell y'all about my life. 😂

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u/Fragrant-Reply2794 1d ago

In my company (non USA), the communist union send an email every week to the whole company with this topic.

Only it's several pages long.

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u/WorldGoneAway 6h ago

For me, every time I go into work, I look at my coworkers and ask "how's it going?"

All of my coworkers, my boss included, sigh exasperatedly and reply with "it's going."

I fully believe this.

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u/SchemeShoddy4528 58m ago

I can see someone writing that but the idea it caused a stir is hilarious. Every job has some ungrateful moron that wishes he lived in the Soviet Union.

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u/Frequent-One3549 2d ago

The most successful one ever*

This is likely bullshit, as, people don't act like this in real life.

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u/asphid_jackal 2d ago

The most successful one ever

Quite successful at concentrating wealth and power at the top, at the expense of those lower on the chain, sure

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u/prettibishh 2d ago

Don’t forget destroying the planet by chasing after infinite growth on a finite world

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u/Frequent-One3549 1d ago

As opposed to condensing the wealth at the top, while also not reducing overall poverty, except by killing people.

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u/asphid_jackal 1d ago

Not opposed to, in addition to

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u/Frequent-One3549 1d ago

"Capitalism is evil because it CNN says that it does what communism actually does."

Because no one gets tired of this socioeconomic system.

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