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The first time this happened: "The company engages in regular “random acts of kindness”: workers form a noisy conga line and single out one of their colleagues
by jat850 16y ago
The first time this happened:
"The company engages in regular “random acts of kindness”: workers form a noisy conga line and single out one of their colleagues for praise. The praisee then has to wear a silly hat for a week."
I would make it very clear it shouldn't happen again. If it did, I'd leave the company.
- Lazlo_Nibble 16y agoSomeone apparently swapped the definitions of "random kindness" and "humiliating harassment" in Zappos' corporate HR policy. (On the other hand, if it'll help morale, I'm willing to suck it up and attend my company's upcoming pennant-race baseball outing. If asked nicely I might take one for the team and participate in multiple such events through the end of the postseason.)
- Cushman 16y agoDoes anyone else see the irony implicit in "regular random acts of kindness"?
- pjscott 16y agoIf I had to implement something like that, I would make sure that the recipients of these acts of kindness were chosen uniformly at random from the entire workforce, and that the times between acts of kindness were exponentially distributed random variables. It would just feel right to be able to say that our "random acts of kindness" are a Poisson process. Or better yet, abandon the entire idea and get a rock climbing wall instead. I love those things.
- aerique 16y agoRadioactive decay is random yet regular, so: no :-)