Fucking nightmare.
On my last corpo job onboarding there were about 50 new starters and the HR lady pulled out a microphone and asked everyone to share something interesting about themselves as an ice breaker.
You could hear the cringe in the air. I just said that I like coffee.
You know what’s fuckin’ wild? I’ve literally only ever had to do these dumbass “team-building exercises” that treat you like a toddler in kindergarten at jobs where you never actually work as a god damn team. Meanwhile, every job that required working with others in some meaningful way just threw you into the grinder and let you figure it out.
How can you tell? Is it the balloon?
I never notice these things… Is there a game on the internet where you have to detect ai images
partially the balloon, but also the “mandatory fun” poster is way too on-the-nose - nobody working in HR is self-aware enough to do that
I just figured it with being so on the nose that it was from an episode of The Office or something like that.
I didn’t think of that. If i worked in HR I’d totally do this.
The text is also a bit weird
But yes, the balloon inside the chair is the telltale
I would love to learn what stands out about the text. Is it the margins on the paper?
AI has a tendency to make focus points of their prompts and put them “front and center.”
I don’t even know if I could put it into words… It’s too bold and clear compared to the rest of the stuff in the scene.
I also think there’s something about the angle the supposed photo was taken from that would make the text look subtly distorted in some way, and it’s not.
Scary, but not quite as bad as: Meeting invite: no title, later this morning, attendees are your manager and HR. (That is, layoffs.)
My wife was laid off at the begging of the month and it went something like this. The HR girl went to her table and asked her and other coworker to come with her to a meeting room. In the meeting room was other HR person who asked the three of them to sit and told them that they were laid off, including the HR lady that came for my wife.
I have also had this one be 1. Someone has died in the office. 2. You senior manager / director was fired for corruption and HR wants to question everyone for involvement.
tell us a fun fact about yourself
I love these questions because I use it as an excuse to “trauma dump” things to the group and act like it’s the most normal thing ever.
of course none of it was true, but man…did I sell it enough that they never asked the groups I was in those kinds of questions again.
example
I found out when I was 7 that I was able to dislocate my shoulder when my father yanked on my arm hard enough when he caught me sneaking food. it was cool while I was in school because I could get out of gym and not have to explain all the bruising on my back in the locker room. I can’t do it anymore as it’s just too painful to pop it back into place. 😁
everyone else 😶😬😐😟
If there’s a Hell, this is what I imagine it would look like.
With jazz playing
On an awful thin and tinny speaker
You monster!
