Song played at the opening of the all-hands meeting about "transformative fire" "The theme is one of purification through suffering"
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Song played at the opening of the all-hands meeting about "transformative fire" "The theme is one of purification through suffering"
Neat.
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It was part of a corporate recognition of Diwali, the Hindu festival that symbolizes the spiritual victory of light over darkness.
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- Diwali
- Victory of light over darkness.
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- Corporation borrowing spiritual traditions to reframe them as management practices.Is my reaction just me being Very American again?
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@troublewithwords Also, why is *any* religion being brought up in a workplace. Sure, recognise that some people may be taking a holiday,, but other than that??
My personal cynical view (and maybe also racist?) is Corps be like "hey, we have a lot of South Asians working for us — many of whom we underpay and under promote… some are even H1Bs we can deport on a whim — we can placate them by acknowledging their holiday so we don't need to do anything real for them"… is the vibe I got when in corp.
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@octothorpe Thanks for providing a second opinion on that. I know I am obnoxiously negative about corporate behavior, but I want to make sure I'm not completely making things up.
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@troublewithwords Again, my take is maybe overly cynical and possibly racist, but yeah, I'd prefer to not have any religion brought up other than "Hey, tomorrow's a holiday, so we're not open", or "Next friday is a holiday, so some folks will be out, but the office will be open".
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@octothorpe Yeah, acknowledge and stay of the way fits well into how I think. Thoughtful management could plan around known common holidays. They're already in the calendar. But give folks time off when they need it, be supportive of that.
Ideally I want a company that lets the employees turn off the company brain when they go home, and not try to make the company more homey. If the company has worthwhile goals and treats folks like humans, we'll do the work without tricks.
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@troublewithwords Yuuuup. Because no matter how "but we're FAMILY!!!!!1111oneoneone" they get, they will ALWAYS sack your arse when they feel like it.
So, like, stop the pantomime, eh?
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@octothorpe Goodness, I miss working for very small businesses. I won't say they were all good, but they were the places that would treat me like a person. Wish I knew where they went. Maybe bigger companies sucked all of their air away? Most of those that I worked with are now at A Very Big Corp. I suspect one cannot even find small companies to apply to because the big ones have gamed they system too effectively.
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@troublewithwords I've had mixed results. Too small, and you get weird nepotism/in-crowd problems you can't just route around. Too big and the reason behind all decisions becomes a finger pointing elsewhere.
Scaling is weird. I also think it's possible to be in a larger corp but have it be structured so that you still have agency, and a tight team that works well together. I don't think folks need to be buddies, but I like it when I can look forward to working with someone.
