YesMadam did an employee survey on stress, then fired the stressed employees (opens in new tab)

(inc.com)

13 pointssmohnot1y ago2 comments

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  > To ensure that no one remains stressed at work, we have made the difficult decision to part ways with employees who indicated significant stress.

This is one of the most horrifying and hilarious corporate sentence at the same time. I would have expected this from some weird UK black comedy...

sillywalk1y ago

> I would have expected this from some weird UK black comedy...

There was an episode of the IT Crowd with this as the scenario. The boss declares war on stress, and says "Oh, by the way, anybody still experiencing stress at the end of the day WILL BE FIRED!"

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not_your_vase1y ago

  > To ensure that no one remains stressed at work, we have made the difficult decision to part ways with employees who indicated significant stress.

This is one of the most horrifying and hilarious corporate sentence at the same time. I would have expected this from some weird UK black comedy...

sillywalk1y ago

> I would have expected this from some weird UK black comedy...

There was an episode of the IT Crowd with this as the scenario. The boss declares war on stress, and says "Oh, by the way, anybody still experiencing stress at the end of the day WILL BE FIRED!"

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