“Partners can come together and do anything!... except unionize...”

I found it more of a blatant two-birds-with-one-stone situation than cult-like; reinforce service standards and HR standards together while making an attempt at putting us all at ease.

However, in Canada we got all our messages from Lori instead of Rossann, so maybe it comes down to where you’re located. The meditation was still dumb as all hell however.

Also, what was y’all’s creepy interview? We didn’t get a creepy interview lol

The meditation part was super awkward! Especially the part where they tell us to picture someone we love & then it ends with picture the customer you miss the missed or something like that. It was all a little weird & cultish sounding lol. I know it was more for making partners who’s stores closed or took the 30 days to feel a little more comfortable & being empathetic to one another which is really good, but the store I worked at never closed down even though a good amount of our partners took the 30 days & we also had amazing borrowed partners come to our store to help out who’s stores closed & wanted to work. The meeting was good for the reason that it gave re-opening stores and returning partners a glimpse into the precarious that were being taken by the company but the meditation part was just totally awkward 😂🤣

Definitely had mind control vibes

TRUTH

I did my best to kinda go along, our staff is small and we’ve been mostly in good spirits about returning so we did joke around a bit but tried to go along with it and turn it into something valuable for our team. I will say when they got to the part about thinking about loved ones and yadada and then “now think of a customer” I let out an audible “AH!” as a joke but I think it was fine with everybody they laughed LOL

Beacons of hope and heroes who don’t deserve to keep their $3 raise

Is this another round of that meditation ‘picture the customer as someone you love unconditionally’? It was bad enough the first time we had it please tell me they aren’t doing it again

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i don’t think it’s the intention at all to be culty. if you’ve tried meditation by yourself it makes a little bit more sense why they do it in the groups. it’s to clear everyone’s mind and bring them a sense of peace and clarity before discussing the day’s events. i think they genuinely care about their partners mental health for one reason or another.

i don’t think it’s the intention at all to be culty. if you’ve tried meditation by yourself it makes a little bit more sense why they do it in the groups. it’s to clear everyone’s mind and bring them a sense of peace and clarity before discussing the day’s events. i think they genuinely care about their partners mental health for one reason or another.