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[NecrosaroIII]

https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/yesmadam-fires-employees-after-stress-survey-hr-s-email-sparks-outrage-124120900791_1.html

YesMadam, a beauty service platform offering doorstep services, has come under scrutiny after reportedly dismissing employees experiencing ‘stress’ following an in-office survey. A LinkedIn post indicates the company sent out emails informing these employees of their immediate termination, a move that has raised concerns about workplace ethics.

The Noida-based company recently conducted a survey on stress at work, and over 100 employees who said that they were under significant stress were fired.

The email sent to the employees reads, “Dear team, recently we conducted a survey to understand your feelings about stress at work. Many of you shared your concerns, which we deeply value and respect. As a company committed to fostering a healthy and supportive work environment, we have carefully considered the feedback.”

The email further said, “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 decision is effective immediately, and impacted employees will receive further details separately. Thank you for your contributions.”

Certainly an interesting decision. Just a reminder that your employer doesn't care about you. They care about the money they make.

 

[Hookshot]

Never fill out a company survey properly, always just mark them as 5/5 or exceptional or whatever is best.

 

[Jaybe]

Never fill out a company survey properly, always just mark them as 5/5 or exceptional or whatever is best.

Yep. They are not anonymous, even if it says it is they can still use different filters to pinpoint you.

 

[LordCBH]

“Anonymous” company surveys aren’t anonymous. Remember that. I’ll never say anything negative on them.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

I always fill my company surveys in that I’m a senior manager and have been for over ten years and always give negative scores.

They’ve never found me but I hope it always fucks up their stats.

 

[SJRB]

I saw this and thought it was a meme but it is real? Amazing.

“The beatings will continue until morale improves”

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I always fill my company surveys in that I’m a senior manager and have been for over ten years and always give negative scores.

They’ve never found me but I hope it always fucks up their stats.

 

[Mikado]

The email further said, “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 decision is effective immediately, and impacted employees will receive further details separately. Thank you for your contributions.”

That is some impressive archvillain-level snark right there. Not sure if that will come back to bite them though? Depending on the state could that open them to some lawsuits - esp. if those let go were still accomplishing their tasks satisfactorily regardless?

 

[T4keD0wN]

I always fill my company surveys in that I’m a senior manager and have been for over ten years and always give negative scores.

They’ve never found me but I hope it always fucks up their stats.

You sure they dont know? In my experience the surveys usually have a unique personal signature/link, but if its just a generic shortlink and youre sure everyone gets the same one then it should be fine.

 

[Husky]

It's like that episode!

 

[Quasicat]

My district always tell us that the surveys are anonymous, but the last one asked us to list our grade and subject “for classification purposes”.

I am the only 8th Social Studies teacher in our district.

 

[Pejo]

Isn't retaliation by an employer illegal if it can be proven? How is this not retaliation?

 

[Vetusomaru]

Just a reminder that your employer doesn't care about you. They care about the money they make.

Customers don't care either since they keep consuming products from said companies. Or they praise these companies the moment they tweet about Trans Rights.

 

[Champomade]

That is some impressive archvillain-level snark right there. Not sure if that will come back to bite them though? Depending on the state could that open them to some lawsuits - esp. if those let go were still accomplishing their tasks satisfactorily regardless?

It's an Indian company...

 

[Pejo]

It's an Indian company...

And there's the other shoe dropping. I don't think this would go well in the US, but my general feeling is that India probably doesn't have a lot of worker protections in place. Hopefully/maybe social media can have some sort of effect here, but seems unlikely considering the brand doesn't seem to be big enough for it to catch on.

i. e. if 200,000 people that already weren't using their services/products proclaim that they won't use their services/products, there's a net zero effect.

 

[jason10mm]

Well, that's one way to get rid of folks! And if they conduct a follow-up survey then EVERYONE is stress free now that those nervous nellies are gone! Success!!!

 

[Fbh]

They literally went with the meme logic:

"Can't have a high level of stress at your company if you fire everyone who is stressed"

 

[Tams]

I always tell anyone asking for these surveys to get stuffed.

I haven't be fired... yet.

 

[Mikado]

It's an Indian company...

Ah.

 

[ReBurn]

If your employer sends you an anonymous survey rest assured that it is not anonymous.

 

[YCoCg]

I see StreetsofBeige has found a way to get rid of his female employees then

 

[eddie4]

Your position is stressing you out? Well....

 

[Lord Panda]

When I fill out 'anonymous' work surveys, TOR or a remote VPN endpoint is an absolute minimum.

 

[Mistake]

Manager POV

 

[Bashtee]

“Anonymous” company surveys aren’t anonymous. Remember that. I’ll never say anything negative on them.

Might explain why my project got canceled 6 weeks after I took a shit on my line manager in a survey.

And there's the other shoe dropping. I don't think this would go well in the US [for now]

I have no clue how the US legislature works, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were about to get a lot worse over the next couple of years.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

You sure they dont know? In my experience the surveys usually have a unique personal signature/link, but if its just a generic shortlink and youre sure everyone gets the same one then it should be fine.

They've never come knocking in the ten years that I've been doing it so...

 

[Brigandier]

Workers rights are non existent in some countries... fucking disgraceful.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Nobody is stressed if you fire all the stressed out people.

EDIT: beaten by Fbh

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Customers don't care either since they keep consuming products from said companies. Or they praise these companies the moment they tweet about Trans Rights.

 

[IDKFA]

I think it's absolutely insane in the USA how you can get instantaly fired for any reason. The whole country seems to have Victorian era working conditions. Absolutely mental.

How does US Gaf cope?

 

[IntentionalPun]

I think it's absolutely insane in the USA how you can get instantaly fired for any reason. The whole country seems to have Victorian era working conditions. Absolutely mental.

How does US Gaf cope?

This story (if it's real) is for an Indian company.

You'd get sued out of business in the US doing this. It's just too on the nose.

Whole thing screams fake to me tho lol But that's just a gut feeling, no research lol

 

[IDKFA]

This story (if it's real) is for an Indian company.

You'd get sued out of business in the US doing this. It's just too on the nose.

Whole thing screams fake to me tho lol But that's just a gut feeling, no research lol

Damn. I didn't even think of it being in any other country besides the US. That's how bad I assume US workers rights are.

 

[kittoo]

The company now says it was all part of an "awareness campaign on worker stress". LOL these clowns-

https://news.abplive.com/business/y...er-100-employees-for-workplace-stress-1736761

 

[T4keD0wN]

They've never come knocking in the ten years that I've been doing it so...

 

[Lambogenie]

Talk about no tact.

You're supposed to fire them slowly or force them out. Not all at once.

 

[Toots]

Firing them expose the company to lawsuits, severance package, etc...

Why not looking for what generates stress, must be indicated in the surveys, and amp those up until everyone quits ?

 

[Kraz]

It's an Indian company...

 

[JimmyRustler]

I wonder how those companies are able to find replacements for all these people they fire? I don’t get it. Who wants to work there?

 

[BlackTron]

The company now says it was all part of an "awareness campaign on worker stress". LOL these clowns-

https://news.abplive.com/business/y...er-100-employees-for-workplace-stress-1736761

Uh, so they're claiming the firings never actually happened?

The only reason I would even 1% wonder if that is true is because the language in the firing e-mail sounds like a joke, but sadly, I believe someone could be insane enough to write it as a legitimate message too lol.

The confirmation would have been speaking out by fired employees but yeah idk it's all the way over in India.

 

[GymWolf]

Wait, are you stressed? Let me fire your ass so you can calm your mind.

Lmao.

 

[BlackTron]

“To ensure that no one remains stressed at work" should just be changed to “To ensure that no one admits they are stressed at work"

I mean if you fire everyone for being stressed, all their replacements and the remaining employees will be more stressed over what could happen and walk on eggshells, resulting in a higher-stress environment where simply less people admit it. So they clearly don't give a shit about reducing stress in the workplace lol.

 

[AJUMP23]

As a person, that is harsh and disgusting. As someone who manages people, probably saved you a lot of headaches.

 

[Aesius]

Never fill out a company survey properly, always just mark them as 5/5 or exceptional or whatever is best.

Learned this the hard way in my first job out of college.

We did peer reviews that were supposed to be anonymous. I reviewed my direct manager and gave her honest feedback, which included some 3/5 scores on stuff she legitimately was dropping the ball on. Later learned that there were meetings to discuss said peer reviews with our director. And peer reviews directly influenced annual raises.

So me giving a few 3/5 scores decreased my manager's annual raise percentage, and somehow she (or our director) sussed out who gave her the low reviews, because it was otherwise an unwritten policy that everyone gave each other 5/5 scores.

From that point on she was hyper critical of everything I did and micromanaged me to an insane degree.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

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

 

[Paltheos]

Certainly an interesting decision. Just a reminder that your employer doesn't care about you. They care about the money they make.

Just tossing out there this is a 'not all companies' thing. My current employer has treated me remarkably well, although it might help that we're a professional organization. For contrast, I worked at my (non-professional) last job for almost a decade, was furloughed when covid hit, and never found out I was formally terminated until I received a letter from my 401k plan opening with 'now that you're no longer employed at [x]'. Putting aside all the petty politics and gaslighting.

 

[DragoonKain]

More of this.

I say that partially facetiously, but I wish companies that, for example, have employees who say they "feel unsafe" in their workplace because some co-worker wore a Harry Potter shirt or something, I wish those companies just got rid of those employees and tell them "You can find your safe space at home." Point being: companies should not cater to ultra particular or nutty employees who are antithetical to productivity. Not saying that is the case in this particular company here, I have no idea.

 

[ReBurn]

This story (if it's real) is for an Indian company.

You'd get sued out of business in the US doing this. It's just too on the nose.

Whole thing screams fake to me tho lol But that's just a gut feeling, no research lol

In the US they wouldn't tell you why they were really firing you. It would be a generic "downsizing" or a "reorganization" regardless of the real reason. Can't sue for improper termination if they don't tell you why you're really being terminated.

 

[ReBurn]

More of this.

I say that partially facetiously, but I wish companies that, for example, have employees who say they "feel unsafe" in their workplace because some co-worker wore a Harry Potter shirt or something, I wish those companies just got rid of those employees and tell them "You can find your safe space at home." Point being: companies should not cater to ultra particular or nutty employees who are antithetical to productivity. Not saying that is the case in this particular company here, I have no idea.

The company I'm working with now takes this approach. If it's a legitimate, documented health or safety issue they make accommodations. If it's hurt feelings or self-diagnosed PTSD because someone disagrees with them then they're coached out the door. The company tried to accommodate some of it during the "let's figure out how to make zoomers want to work here" time after Covid when it was tough to hire people because everyone was over staffing, but they dropped it pretty quickly when those folks couldn't meet a deadline. Now sensitive folks are weeded out during the interview process via their answers to a personality questionnaire.

 

[ahtlas7]

Can’t wait to see the 2025 company survey results.

 

[FeralEcho]

Well, that's one way to get rid of folks! And if they conduct a follow-up survey then EVERYONE is stress free now that those nervous nellies are gone! Success!!!

Until some stressed person relieves that pent up stress by shooting the ceo....