<story><title>Workplace Wellbeing Is a Scam?</title><url>https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/05/workplace-wellbeing-is-a-scam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kumarvvr</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Workplace wellbeing

  Wholesome workplace

  Workplace is a family
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
and a myriad of other touchy-feely terms are just plain bullshit. Whole industries have cropped up to support the efforts of managements to keep workforces in control and deflect resentment (people don&amp;#x27;t leave companies, they leave managers ! and other crap)&lt;p&gt;The ground reality is when the company feels you are not needed, all that touch-feely stuff goes down the drain.&lt;p&gt;No, my company is not my family. I may have good friends and great co-workers, but, at the end of the day, I only have the amount of loyalty to the company, as much as it has towards me.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps its time the internet comes up with training sessions that promote the real face of large corporations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wiz21c</author><text>I totally agree. I mean, nobody cares that I agree. But I have been hurt so much by all that bullshit that readin your comment makes me better.&lt;p&gt;Now I have this question for all the HR departments who engage in spreading those &amp;quot;touchy feely&amp;quot; terms : either you do realize that there&amp;#x27;s a problem with that, then why do you go on spreading it OR you don&amp;#x27;t realize there&amp;#x27;s a problem, then why do you feel those terms are acceptable for the employees ?&lt;p&gt;I honestly ask. Because all of that looks to me as a total intellectual scam. And usually, when I think this way, either there&amp;#x27;s really a scam, either my system of values is completely at odds with reality (and I need to understand my blind spot)</text></comment>
<story><title>Workplace Wellbeing Is a Scam?</title><url>https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/05/workplace-wellbeing-is-a-scam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kumarvvr</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Workplace wellbeing

  Wholesome workplace

  Workplace is a family
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
and a myriad of other touchy-feely terms are just plain bullshit. Whole industries have cropped up to support the efforts of managements to keep workforces in control and deflect resentment (people don&amp;#x27;t leave companies, they leave managers ! and other crap)&lt;p&gt;The ground reality is when the company feels you are not needed, all that touch-feely stuff goes down the drain.&lt;p&gt;No, my company is not my family. I may have good friends and great co-workers, but, at the end of the day, I only have the amount of loyalty to the company, as much as it has towards me.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps its time the internet comes up with training sessions that promote the real face of large corporations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mtberatwork</author><text>&amp;gt; Workplace is a family&lt;p&gt;This one is the biggest eye roll for me. Family and friends don&amp;#x27;t give performance reviews and push other such metrics down your throat.</text></comment>