NoMadam

Well, I didn’t expect to be back in your inbox so soon but here we are. (Special thanks to the anon birdie who tipped me off about this story!)

Let’s talk about the YesMadam firings.

YesMadam is an Indian tech company that connects beauty service providers with clients for in-home services. 

So, for example, if you wanted your nails done at home instead of at a salon, you could do it through YesMadam.

Love that 💅 Less stress, ya know?

But yesterday, a screenshot of an email started making the rounds and it’s a really bad look for the company.*

Based on what we know from the email, YesMadam employees were asked to complete a survey about stress at work. 

So they did.

And the people who reported significant stress at work were terminated effective immediately. 

The cherry on top is that this notification went out to ALL employees.

I mean…at least they weren’t trying to hide their decision from the whole company/world?

While some people speculate the YesMadam firings are just a really bad publicity stunt…

I’m not buying it. 

Occam’s Razor states that the simplest solutions are usually correct – and it’s more common for companies to engage in super shitty firing practices than super risky publicity stunts. 

If there’s a lesson to be learned from this story (so far), I guess it’s that you shouldn’t be honest on employee surveys?

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*Screenshot of the full email message via Reddit:

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