I did have actual stand ups once, after coming back from China and all I could think of was "shit I hope they don't make us sing the corp's anthem at the end!" like they do over there...

[–] Mikrochip@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wait, do they seriously have corporate anthems in China? I thought that only happened in the sprawl trilogy o.O

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

I don't know exactly what they sing, but yeah, singing together before a shift starts is fairly common over there. Used to see the delivery men do it before taking off for the day. Same with the local estate agent branch down the street where I lived.

[–] jade52@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Please explain this corporate anthem further....

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

I dunno exactly what they sang, but yeah, they would absolutely sing something at the beginning of the day, lined up on the pavement outside their office, with the manager directing like some sort of corpo choral. I guess it's one of those team building things...

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Kind of like what they do at Walmart?

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

I did not know that. But it reeks so much of corpo team building I would not be surprised in the least. Do they do that out on the street, though? My first thought when I saw this was "oh, that must be the hazing for the new recruits! How amusing!"
It was not. It was a daily thing.