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I got an email a few weeks ago from one of the higher ups asking that each of us make a 1 minute to 5 minute video bio of ourselves. They told us that the video is voluntary but they would like everyone to do it. After several weeks and being sent to 150+ people only 10 people have done it. I found these statements in the original email hysterical:

" If you are able to do a 1 minute to 5 minute video"
" Employees + Contractors – We all are ONE Team "
" Especially for Contractors who will NOT be at this event "

Daily reminder - I am not perm, dont get benefits, dont get vacation and the only reason I am here is for $$$. I am not your "friend". I will be on your team till the day you decide you dont want to pay me any longer. Than poof, just like that I am not there any longer and am no longer your "friend".

This morning I got another email that they were giving us one more chance to do it by extending the deadline 3 days. That was followed by an email stating that they wanted 75% participation.

Can this guy take the hint - NOBODY wants to do it. Not the employees and definitely not the contractors. Here is the list of what they want with my responses:

Introducing yourself stating –

o   Who you are

If you don’t know who I am then we’re in bigger sh*t than I thought

o   What area and project you support

If you don’t already know this then we don’t work together and it doesn’t matter

o   Where are you based out of

Uh, 1. check the corporate directory, 2. why does it matter since everything is ‘global’ anyway?

o   One interesting fact about you

I seriously dislike “fake” networking via social media and especially video.

o   Your hobbies and/or your passion and if time permitting

Uh, I don’t have any time for hobbies and if I did I wouldn’t share them with colleagues I’ve never met in person let alone tell them in a video that could end up who knows where in which to be trolled

o   Why you enjoy working here

Uh, I don’t actually enjoy working here. Show me 1 person who does and I’ll show you someone who is more fake than network news.


This is basically forced social networking. I am not doing it as I have concerns of what may happen with the video. No thanks. As we all know, once you post something online you lose all control of the content.

Either THAT theory, or, your employer wants to create a spoof video showing rapid cuts of things workers say in their videos taken out of context hilariously. Kind of a "this week  in unnecessary censorship" effect. (The only worthwhile thing Jimmy Kimmel has done.)

I am an hourly contractor, you know the lower than a cockroach variety  . The kind that hides when you turn on the lights.  .

What you are saying could very well be true. I would not put anything past any company now. Any of the things you suggested could be true - using it for anything from advertising to evaluating people (picking out the bad seed).

They have this internal social media thing named Yammer which is all but dead. Nobody uses it after they spent tons of money on it. Get real, people dont want to use social media at work for work.

Supposedly the reason that they want to do run them during a section of a town hall meeting. Team building, employee engagement. Blah, blah.

Have you ever heard of the term "employee engagement"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_engagement

I saw this when I was at one company being used as a weapon against the employees. They actually had books for the managers on how to manipulate the employees.

I am not doing the video. Its an invasion of my privacy. I dont want to share my life with people I dont know nor leave a digital video trail to be used against me by others.

You could do like the POWs did at the Hanoi Hilton.  They complied with their captor's interviews (to avoid torture), but were completely emotionless so anyone back home could see they were just being zombies with nothing going on inside.

Thats great!

I didnt do it and they only got 5 people out of a hundred to do it.