Thread regarding Paramount Global layoffs

@et completely agreed. I’m not allowed to take a lunch at the same time as my co-worker either for “workflow purposes”. My department gets discouraged for talking loudly or god forbid laugh and whisper. Sit in your cubicle and shut up and let the big dogs roam free. It literally feels like a godda-n boarding school.

@ba we have forced fun on 51

@ra Its coming from the same budget that the bagels, pastries, hot chocolates, coffees, neck massages and international snack cart they gave us the first couple of weeks came from.

And who is going to pay for that coffee and lunch? Because expensing it definitely won’t be approved.

@ba I used to get so much pressure from my supervisors when there was a "team outing" (usually a gathering where they hired a DJ to play music that I hated at a volume that my tinnitus couldn't bear), or when I opted not to attend the cringey "surprise" birthday gatherings in the conference room.

"Sorry, I have actual work to do during the work day, and an actual personal life outside of the hours I'm paid for."

My morale wasn't based on cake or co-ktails, it was based on whether the work I was assigned felt fulfilling and whether the execs I served treated me and my work with even a hint of respect.

LOL. If my boss asked me for coffee i'd laugh at how transparent it would be. No one in my department even does lunch. And heaven forbid a vendor invites anyone to an event after 3pm, which is always met with a hard no. So happy hours need not apply. Socially this company is completely lame, which makes RTO all the more isolating.

The power of coffee is strong at this company…

The only thing worst than unnecessarily being in an office is forced “fun time” with people you spend all day with.

While art isn’t going to make it life changing, it’s certainly better than blank walls. I’d settle for some posters from after 2004.

we couldn't beg our boss to join us at a lunch

Hahaha, I’m a big fan of the “art on walls” trolling. Bravo.

Well, there are high-level execs in New York who think that not having art on the walls is a big reason people aren’t happy about RTO, so honestly nothing would surprise me. I was told I would have to jump through so many hoops to get approval to expense coffee with a direct report that I just gave up on that idea.