Rituals/Symbols at work?
What are some rituals or symbols at your workplace? For example, at my company, we have a ritual of a quarterly bbq at the CEO’s house (attendance is mandatory if you have any sense. People that blow it off will have unintended consequences) A symbol we have is people in management have offices, with higher level execs having nicer furniture/paintings in their office/etc. Which matches their status in the organisation
We display signs from Illuminati to intern sacrifice. We no longer claim to do no evil after our liberal wing allowed satanic worshipping. Basically everything is allowed except following the symbol of the elephant.
Feels nice to know all that Noogler brainwashing I had last month was all bullshit. Cos, it seriously sounded dangerously stupid.
Whenever anyone says ‘diversity’, we bow down, get on knees and chant well rehearsed verses.
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We use IE
Lol yes eating your own dog food, very important.
Na I was kidding. Chrome on Mac here.
We use random Hawaiian words.
One of my old teams at Amazon had a ritual of playing cooperative board games right before peak season hit to help build camaraderie. My favorite was one I started at a past employer because standup went too long (over an hour for a group of 20 devs). People didn’t put enough thought into status and it took forever. So every Friday prose was forbidden in standup. One guy did a Limeric. Someone did a sea shanty. Another creative guy did his in iambic pentameter which spurred other variants. I went for the simplest of them all: a haiku. We had a tradition to take the best one and add it to the board. After standup anyone who needed further clarification got it—offline.
We do a human sacrifice of the lowest performers at all hands. I still remember the aftermath of the fire phone, we feasted on the flesh of the least effective for many days.
Lmao I knew someone from amazon would comment this
Though the main brains behind the fire phone managed to survive (Jeff).