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Malicious Compliance

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People conforming to the letter, but not the spirit, of a request. For now, this includes text posts, images, videos and links. Please ensure that the “malicious compliance” aspect is apparent - if you’re making a text post, be sure to explain this part; if it’s an image/video/link, use the “Body” field to elaborate.

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cross-posted from: https://rabbitea.rs/post/280182

I think this is appropriate here!

‘I am a self-expressive person and I feel very confident with pink hair so I came up with a solution to keep the job and my hair’

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah, the marketing version of "inclusiveness":

"We are a great, hip and youthfull place to work: just look at *picture of male model with a hipster beard* Joe from Accounting"

(Reminds me of how since about first Tech boom, Tech companies would show to the Press and prospective candidates all the amazing facilities they have for employees to relax - fuzzball tables, relax-spaces with beanbag chairs, even indoor slides - but if you're on the inside you quickly find out you're expected to work 12h/day on a never ending sequence of death marches and you'll never actually have time to use those "relax facilities")

This kind of thing is the result of about the same process as their businesswise evaluation of complying with regulations: they usually conclude that the profit maximizing option is to provide the appearence of complying whilst internally and through less explicit methods (usually all in choices that aren't explicitly justified) acting in a completelly different way.

If there is one thing companies have learned in the last 4 decades is that image managements is way cheaper (read: "profit enhancing") than actually doing the right things and delivers pretty much the same results if in influencing those external to the company.

One can trust a corporation about as much as one can trust a known sociopath.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

One a sidenote, I never got the point of e.g. xbox rooms and ping pong tables in offices. Why the hell would I want to relax in a place of work? I want to do my work, then go home (to relax). Playing 30 min video games in the afternoon would mean that happens 30 mins later.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

picture of male model with a hipster beard* Joe from Accounting

Literally me.

Except for the accounting job... and being a model.