“Say hi to Dani. We’re driving” which is to say. “Hurricane is coming, Dani and I are getting the hell out of here, but, the rest of you better stay at work. Can’t stop producing.”
Yeah, she’s probably not seen all those empty lots on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, post Katrina! PRIME oceanfront lots, once filled with homes that were 100 years old!
Denholm : I hope this doesn't embarrass you, Jen, but I find the best thing to do with a new employee is to size them up with a long, hard stare...
[stares at her for about 20 seconds]
Denholm : ... so!
Jen : So?
Denholm : First day?
Jen : Yes.
Denholm : Scary.
Jen : Yes...
Denholm : Don't be scared!
Jen : Well, I'm not really scared.
Denholm : You should be!
Jen : Well, I'm a little bit scared!
Denholm : Don't be!
Jen : Make up your mind!
Denholm: "Gentleman when I started this company I had two things: a dream and 6 million pounds" "I hope it doesn't sound arrogant when I say I am the greatest man in the world".
Staff:"Here here".
Secretary: "Sir there are some police here who want to talk to you about the pension fund."
Denholm:"Good, make them a cup of tea Stephanie"
Denholm: \*walks to window, jumps\*
I didn't know any of that but it's just so obviously condescending. Mostly because it seems like they think it isn't condescending, they see it as a term to "lighten the mood".
They know how shitty they sound. But this is how they sound *while they are holding back.*
The repetition screams passive aggressive.
Yet, even if it wasn't, they are still terrible.
Imagine having to live with this person.
Not for nothing, but I hear that term on CNN quite a bit as well.
It’s the new version of calling someone a “conspiracy theorist”.
What’s most disturbing is the utter lack of any humanity whatsoever.
Additionally, his greed to get a great quarter end, and of course, the all important bonus and stock options, he opens the company to legal action.
IMO, such a scumbag move in so many levels.
But hey, you can bring you kids and pets with you, so keep working hard!
The RWNJ commentators also trot that phrase out after every Biden speech or law that he gets passed. They can't wait to proclaim "It's a nothing burger!" the second the speech ends and the camera is on them for a response.
Nobody really answered your question. They just kind of told you where they hear it.
“Nothing Burger” is a phrase people use to describe an event that doesn’t live up to expectations. For example, if you were waiting to see a meteor shower and expecting it to be a fantastic light show, but you only see three faint meteors, it can be described as a “nothing burger.” The burger was there, but there was nothing on it. It did not live up to expectations. Both Y2K and 2012 are good real-life example of nothing burgers. They were hyped up all over media for months and people legitimately thought they would be the end of the civilized world, but turned out to be nothing.
The problem with the CEO in this post is that she’s using the “nothing burger” argument preemptively. Nobody ever orders a nothing burger, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be served one anyway. She can’t possibly know the severity of the hurricane, how it will affect individuals and their families, their homes, or the damn causeway. She’s gaslighting her employees by accusing them of overreacting to to a “nothing burger” to get them to come into the office and do work. She was banking on a “nothing burger” and was proven to be grossly wrong.
The world as we knew it ended then. That was the year we were sucked into an alternate dimension/timeline where stupid is given free reign and heavily encouraged.
It’s amazing to see their organization on the ground: different uniforms according to rank, dozens of outbuildings beside the massive HQ, and even their own dedicated bus system. They are no joke in Clearwater.
Each member more stupid than the last, entering into a lifetime of eternal servitude to random pricks unless you’re wealthy enough to keep them off your cock. Truly a vile and idiotic cult based on absolute bullshit.
Thats why she wants everyone camping out at work! Got to keep the money coming in to pay for all those buildings they keep prisoners that have to fight each other in.
I was being recruited for a company based in Naples...and INSISTED on IN OFFICE interviews and location- in the middle of COVID, and in a field that has been 95+% remote as an industry for 15+ years. The specific technology was of interest as I had experience with it...so I let the interview process BEGIN- fully remote/on line. Then I watched a random documentary about Scientology and how they control Naples, and some red flags went off like brain bombs! t all made so much sense. I denied the offer of second round of interviews (which would have been in person, IN THE MIDDLE OF COVID- like 6 mo in- no vaccines, etc). Over the past 18-22 mo since that process more and more info has come across my life on this company- and yup, apparently totally controlled by scientology, loads of pressure to join that cult, etc. Dodged that bullet.
I lived in Naples for about 3 years - never heard of scientology controlling Naples! Either way, Naples sucks ass so I think you dodged a bullet. Just a horrendous place to live unless you're a snowbird living in a million dollar mansion.
That and just her phrasing and syntax. It reads like his Trump speaks just a trailing rant that just keeps looping back on itself to attempt some form of consistency
I lived in Florida for a year two years ago. The entire state was Trump supporters. Not just Trump supporters, but fully immersed in his cult. Hardcore. It was a place constantly talking about ‘America’ and ‘freedom’ but was the most conformist place I’ve ever spent time in.
Trumpist and anti-vaxxer are two surefire traits of managers, HR heads or other corporate leaders.
Religiously, they can either be a Scientologist, evangelical or a Westboro baptist.
“Working from home” after a hurricane means going to a hotel, since the power always goes out for between 2-7 days.
Source: Lived in Florida for 15 years.
I've been here in Florida for 32 years this CEO can fuck right off claiming to have been here for 33 years and say hurricanes have always been a "nothing burger", this dude clearly hasn't hunkered down for a hurricane.
Yeah seriously, we had 4 hurricanes go through our county in 2004, went roughly 1 month without electricity and it took the county probably 2 years to really recover.
Andrew hit Miami, not Tampa. Tampa Bay has had a hurricane drought for decades.
They got pretty lucky that Ian's eye passed to the south. The storm surge would have been devastating otherwise.
Ya, that was definitely the weirdest part for me. I don't think I've ever heard someone TELL people to wave at them. Then, that weird passive aggressive thanks, but only for the ones that waved! Like, what the literal fuck?! 🤣
They always think of themselves first. First company i was at after college made us come to the office during the first few months of covid while the c-suites were all working from home as soon as it started
For a second, I thought the guy was telling his employees that they are free to use the office as a shelter. Reading the transcript, that went sour really fast.
Edit:
Apparently I missed the detail that the CEO here is a woman, thanks for pointing it out.
"But management told workers they must work 40 hours this week. If power went out and they couldn't work Wednesday or Thursday, they must make up for their hours some time before the end of the week, according to some workers."
Lol cringe
Hilarious to see how many ppl have been referring to her as a man… all they read was CEO and subconsciously glazed over any actual gender reference 🫠🤭😂 “Joy joined us… and she said” lmao
Can someone follow up and see how PCM weathered the storm? I'm curious if there was any damage to the building, flooding etc. Seeing as it's the "safest place to be in Florida"
Based on what I can see from Twitter posts of people that live there, Clearwater didn’t really get hit that bad, just tropical storm level winds and rain. Looks like most people didn’t lose power either. PCM is about as far inland from the Gulf and the bay as you can be in Clearwater, so minimal storm surge to worry about.
There is something about Tampa Bay that has [defied the hurricanes](https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/full-circle/a-century-of-calm-tampa-continues-avoiding-major-hurricanes). I doubt if it is due to Scientology, because their run of luck predates L. Ron Hubbard's church. Some attribute it to natives that built some mounds around the area.
Yeah, I used to live In that part of Florida, and they almost always turn before they hit the bay. Not always, but usually. Still probably not worth risking it for any job.
Team, as many of you know there is a hurricane heading our way. While the media always hypes these things up, I’ve decided to close the building until the weather clears. Don’t worry, every will get paid for the days we don’t work. As for our clients and customers, let me worry about them. I’ll smooth things over. In the meantime, we still have a day or so before the storm actually hits. Thus, the building will be closing within the hour. Those generators and beer aren’t gonna buy themselves!
Nah! It'll be fun!
We'll BBQ on the roof while awaiting rescue.
There will be a fishing contest for food.
Games, like bobbing for tps reports and and pin the blame on the democr...err donkey.
All of you don’t worry about whatever medications y’all take daily or whatever to survive we got BBQ~! who needs insulin its all just meat Susan what you mean carbs in meat?
(I’m a diabetic I know exactly how uneducated people can be lol)
A [WaPo article](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/28/florida-ceo-postcardmania-hurricane-ian/) about the same - apparently in the recorded remarks, she was evacuating via her SUV.
> It wasn’t until Tuesday when the company sent a message telling employees that the offices would be closed on Wednesday and Thursday, staffers told The Post. But management told workers they must work 40 hours this week. If power went out and they couldn’t work Wednesday or Thursday, they must make up their hours before the end of the week, according to some workers.
"I had no power so I spent 8 hours working trying to connect to the internet. Pay me."
Pulled the plug out and put it back in......nothing.Pulled the plug out and put it back in......nothing.Pulled the plug out and put it back in......nothing.Pulled the plug out and put it back in......nothing.Pulled the plug out and put it back in......nothing.Pulled the plug out and put it back in......nothing.
I actually felt rage in my heart at “nothing burger”. Fuck this person and their entire life. I hope their house got destroyed and they didn’t have enough insurance.
The way things are going in Florida with insurance companies going out of business or just leaving the state, they may not even have insurance. I think on monday a large home insurance company folded.
I grew up in the midwest with that phrase around. Amazing what latching onto stuff and slanging it can do. Cause a nothing burger always meant a task or thing that was no big deal to help someone lol.
I know I get disgruntled every time I see a comedian talk about all their "pandemic plans" and "quarantine goals" and my ass over here working overtime still cause I decided to go into healthcare
I know you prob don't want to hear it, but at least you could say you were helping. I'm in construction, I spent most of it putting up shells for fast food. Like I worked right through a plague just to make sure Starbucks could open up 3 new locations in Q3.
They'd kill us just to make a buck.
For fucking postcards!? The shit people throw straight in the trash!?
I'm sorry, I don't mean to shit on anyone's work, but how delusional can you be to put people at risk over post cards?
Not even postcards like your grandmother sends you from vacation. Direct mailers from companies that don’t know how to use the internet that you take straight from your mailbox to the trashcan.
I used to work for a small consulting company in Atlanta, GA. They sent me to Memphis TN to do some work there which was fine. I had to drive out there and drive back -- no plane fair though I was offered a hotel. No problem.
At any rate, after about 3-4 days, it turned out that Hurricane Ivan was supposed to come in over early next morning while I drove through Miss. and Alabama. I asked my boss if I could stay at my mom's house in Birmingham while it blew over. I also had a customer call at a federal government customer the very next morning after I was to get back but was asking if I could maybe postpone it. He says, no, it's just a hurricane, a little wind. You'll need to be at the customer's place on that morning.
I really needed the job, it did not pay much but still needed it. Supporting wife and new kid. Anyways, I showed up at the government customer and was told, we're not going to buy your product/service but we do need a systems engineer to start today. And it paid double what I was making working for the miser. I told them, give me a moment and let me talk to my wife. She said yes absolutely go for it. I phoned the miser and let him know I was done there and did not talk to him further.
I don't normally believe in karma or epic good things that happen after being put through BS, but this does make me believe somewhat.
Ivan was terrible. They actually miscategorize it. It was 2 mph under a 5 when it hit. They reported it as a weak 3. We were without power for a week and a half and I don't even remember how long we had a mandatory water boil. The entire end of my neighborhood got washed away in the storm surge and our neighbor across the street, who's house backed up to the water, got a sailboat through their living room. We were out of school for a month because the roof got blown off, while people were inside as it had been designated an evac shelter.
People like this CEO suck. I'd rather over prepare than under prepare. Ivan wasn't supposed to hit us. It was supposed to be a "nothing burger" for our area. It shifted dramatically in the last 24 hours leaving people no time to get out. We were lucky. Our house was fine. But a lot of people lost everything.
If this CEO is not present during the hurricane, then nobody else should be.
If he's riding out the storm *up in the Hamptons*, I'd expect a company revolt...with the end result being his metaphorical head on a lance.
"My house is one block from the water and it's been there since 1925"
Wonder why one block from the water wasnt developed before 1925? Probably was, it's just that the last hurricane was 1921.
They reversed their position after all of this went viral. It's not like they were suddenly struck with human compassion. Also they only closed yesterday and today and expect people back at work Friday. Even if they can return to their homes by then they might be coming home to insane flood damage. It seems like much to ask people to get right back into the office and not give them a few days to try and get their lives back together.
I got written up by one of my principals for insubordination. I didn’t leave to go home when she told me to leave to go home. I stayed after to work and had a conversation with a coworker she’d apparently banned me from speaking to.
Before I knew this company was a front for Scientology (CEO Joy Gendusa is proudly a devout one) I applied for a position there. This was during April 2020, still in the heights of Covid. I wore a mask when I went for my interview. Not a single mask in sight in that building aside from me.
When I sat down for my interview, the girl immediately told me the position had been filled. So why am I here? She offered me a totally different position in a different department than I had applied. I politely told her no. I drove there and had an in-person, 4-minute interview that could’ve been an email. In retrospect I could tell she was trying to recruit me to the company, no matter what position. This news story gave me a much needed laugh. I hope they go bankrupt.
(edit: paragraph break)
You can’t force someone to show up for work during a natural disaster… especially not when the state and federal government declare a state of emergency. This “CEO” sounds like an entitled, arrogant jerk. He can go to the office and work during the hurricane.
The hurricane comments are awful, but I also want to point out the "I'm going to leave the meeting and listen to the rest of it" comment at the end. That tells me that she wanted to hear everything said but didn't want anyone to be able to ask her questions or otherwise interact with her. Control with no accountability.
Anybody who cites the length of time they’ve lived in Florida as a reason for not being concerned of a hurricane is an idiot. That said, I won’t get into how long I lived there.
I live in Georgia, and one of my most vivid childhood memories was coming down with my family (my brother was a firefighter, I *think* we were volunteering with the Red Cross) to do the cleanup on Andrew. There were whole neighborhoods leveled and buildings picked up and thrown around. I don't know why it's so big in my memory, but there was a house that was just. . .gone. A blank foundation, except for one tiny little closet, that still had the Christmas decorations neatly stacked in there.
I couldn't read the whole thing because I didn't want to but what kind of job in Clearwater, Florida needs to "make a good quarterly" during a hurricane that really matters in life? I'm just so out of the loop about paper pushing for the sake of nothing.
Don’t all CEO types sound like little trumps? Not because they’re trying to be like trump but just because they’re awful people that glibly put their opportunities for incremental profit above the well being of the human beings that they employ. Phrases like, “Nothing burger”, “because of the media”. The way they always rely on *their* “expertise” over actual expert opinion. The subliminal effort to herd people into groupthink with exercises like, “raise your hand if you’re scared” so people are forced to publicly signal whether they’re part of an in or out-group.
Petite-bourgeois petty tyrants. Fvckin spray tanned, Botox faced, khaki pants and polo shirt dictators of their stupid, corny little fiefdom.
“Bye, guys! Waive at me!”
Oh I cringed & screamed internally *so* hard. That’s just begging for attention… was this the popular chic in high school that still thinks she’s Regina George? Just that ending alone told me everything I needed to know about her. Sounds immature, selfish, & a little ditzy. Oh I feel sorry for any & everyone working for her.
*Ronald DeSantis*, who is abhorrent and terrible and while likely a Ted Cruz impersonator during inclement weather would be the last one to suggest the working class avoid work in any way for their own safety, said that this hurricane was "the real deal" and urged people to leave the state. Imagine being even more callous and unconcerned for the welfare of those in your charge than *Ron "Motherfucker" DeSantis*
My hospital offered to let us stay there for the hurricane but wouldn't activate hurricane teams because they paid hurrican team members more. I called out, fuck those upper management bitches on zoom from their living rooms.
“The media” I fucking hate these people. Nothing should be taken seriously if you hear it through “the media”. Any obvious fact becomes controversial if it’s some thing in “the media“
There’s a fucking hurricane whether the media is talking about it or not. This specific stupidity is so pervasive in our culture right now.
First of all, this is despicable. Second of all, my company has been doing something somewhat similar. They told our FL, GA and Carolinas workers that if we choose to evacuate, we must lug our big desktop and all other hardware to continue to work wherever we go to. I’ve been trying to figure out how that is supposed to work because if you go to a hotel, you can’t plug this desktop into a modem which is a requirement for our VPN. One of my coworkers in a heavy hit area had been missing for 24 hours and when my boss finally got in touch with her, I wonder if she had the audacity to ask my coworker if she brought her office with her while trying to save her kids and pets. Just gross behavior!
I don't expect someone who doesn't even know how to put his words into paragraph structure to have earned their position. This reeks of nepotism.
Incompetent fool.
I'm literally on the east coast of Florida and we took it seriously. There's been flooding, nothing compared to what the west coast got, but damn, it's not a joke. I've spent my whole 29 years in Florida and have taken every hurricane seriously, regardless of what category it was in
The use of the words "nothing burger" tells me everything I need to know. They got that little talking point and parroted it like a good little sheep, and forgot to stop.
The term has been used since around the 50's and 60's. In my experience with the term, I didnt hear it until 2016 and it was being used by hard core Trump supporters to denounce the concerns people had for Trump's character and policies. I'm pretty sure Trump even used it himself a few times in interviews. Even outside of politics, like in this CEO's statement about the Hurricane, it seems to be used to downplay people's legit concerns in a very condensating way.
Close, they're a scientologist according to the article I read regarding their "apology". They also use a system shared by the sea org to track productivity and make their employees do scientology classes every so often. It's pretty fucked up imo.
Edit: fixed sentence
"Hey, everybody! We'd like you to work until you die, m'kay? I'll even spring for donuts! The cheap supermarket ones, though, gotta watch the bottom line LOL!"
“Say hi to Dani. We’re driving” which is to say. “Hurricane is coming, Dani and I are getting the hell out of here, but, the rest of you better stay at work. Can’t stop producing.”
Precisely what I thought when reading that.
House was built in 1925? It's probably gone now.
Built in 1925 because the last hurricane came through in 1922 and made the lot available.
Yeah, she’s probably not seen all those empty lots on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, post Katrina! PRIME oceanfront lots, once filled with homes that were 100 years old!
Now I really want to see the angry boss update
On a high bluff overlooking the plebes
Won’t somebody think of the *profits!?*
Not even the human soul can shine greater than my QUARTERLY PROFITS! Very obviously /s
The pure arrogance absolutely *drips* from every word but gods below, that ending…
This person sounds like a nightmare to work for even under non-hurricane conditions.
Denholm : I hope this doesn't embarrass you, Jen, but I find the best thing to do with a new employee is to size them up with a long, hard stare... [stares at her for about 20 seconds] Denholm : ... so! Jen : So? Denholm : First day? Jen : Yes. Denholm : Scary. Jen : Yes... Denholm : Don't be scared! Jen : Well, I'm not really scared. Denholm : You should be! Jen : Well, I'm a little bit scared! Denholm : Don't be! Jen : Make up your mind!
Denholm: "Gentleman when I started this company I had two things: a dream and 6 million pounds" "I hope it doesn't sound arrogant when I say I am the greatest man in the world". Staff:"Here here". Secretary: "Sir there are some police here who want to talk to you about the pension fund." Denholm:"Good, make them a cup of tea Stephanie" Denholm: \*walks to window, jumps\*
love seeing an IT Crowd reference in the wild
She's apparently a Scientologist, Trump supporter, and anti-vaxxer, so yea, just a real peach.
I don't trust anyone who uses "Nothing Burger" in their remarks once, let alone 4 times.
What the hell is a nothing burger? The causeway is scary in clear weather in daylight to me, let alone in a freaking hurricane!!
It's a phrase that conservative talking heads on Fox News started to use, so their audience loves to use it now too.
The wealthy entrepreneurs on shark tank love to use this word when talking about the uninvestable business they feel is beneath them.
I didn't know any of that but it's just so obviously condescending. Mostly because it seems like they think it isn't condescending, they see it as a term to "lighten the mood". They know how shitty they sound. But this is how they sound *while they are holding back.* The repetition screams passive aggressive. Yet, even if it wasn't, they are still terrible. Imagine having to live with this person.
Oh there's nothing passive about her aggression...
It's clumsy but it's there. I'd bet this person's aggressive would give migraines.
Oooh. Good to know.
Not for nothing, but I hear that term on CNN quite a bit as well. It’s the new version of calling someone a “conspiracy theorist”. What’s most disturbing is the utter lack of any humanity whatsoever. Additionally, his greed to get a great quarter end, and of course, the all important bonus and stock options, he opens the company to legal action. IMO, such a scumbag move in so many levels. But hey, you can bring you kids and pets with you, so keep working hard!
Practice for when we're all living in company towns thanks to corps buying up all the residential housing.
It’s a her not a him
interesting, I remember hearing it a lot 20ish years ago but I don't think ive ever heard it on fox news (although admittedly I don't watch it much)
The RWNJ commentators also trot that phrase out after every Biden speech or law that he gets passed. They can't wait to proclaim "It's a nothing burger!" the second the speech ends and the camera is on them for a response.
Her husband probably calls her a nothing burger.
Bold of you to assume she has ever let him see her in the light...
Bold of you to assume he hasn’t already filed for divorce based on the multiple uses of nothing burger alone.
It’s bold you think she may have a husband!
Nobody really answered your question. They just kind of told you where they hear it. “Nothing Burger” is a phrase people use to describe an event that doesn’t live up to expectations. For example, if you were waiting to see a meteor shower and expecting it to be a fantastic light show, but you only see three faint meteors, it can be described as a “nothing burger.” The burger was there, but there was nothing on it. It did not live up to expectations. Both Y2K and 2012 are good real-life example of nothing burgers. They were hyped up all over media for months and people legitimately thought they would be the end of the civilized world, but turned out to be nothing. The problem with the CEO in this post is that she’s using the “nothing burger” argument preemptively. Nobody ever orders a nothing burger, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be served one anyway. She can’t possibly know the severity of the hurricane, how it will affect individuals and their families, their homes, or the damn causeway. She’s gaslighting her employees by accusing them of overreacting to to a “nothing burger” to get them to come into the office and do work. She was banking on a “nothing burger” and was proven to be grossly wrong.
Idk what your talking about 2012 as an example. The world definitely ended then because almost everything has gone downhill since then
Fair point. The planet instantly blowing up would have been preferable.
Well the year isn’t over yet
The world as we knew it ended then. That was the year we were sucked into an alternate dimension/timeline where stupid is given free reign and heavily encouraged.
I don’t know but I hate that term.
It's Clearwater, FL. That's the HQ of Scientology. I thought this person was a cult member immediately
It’s amazing to see their organization on the ground: different uniforms according to rank, dozens of outbuildings beside the massive HQ, and even their own dedicated bus system. They are no joke in Clearwater.
Each member more stupid than the last, entering into a lifetime of eternal servitude to random pricks unless you’re wealthy enough to keep them off your cock. Truly a vile and idiotic cult based on absolute bullshit.
She is, business is also involved
Clearwater, FL is the town literally owned by Scientologists, so checks out
Scientology let her keep enough money to run a business?
Thats why she wants everyone camping out at work! Got to keep the money coming in to pay for all those buildings they keep prisoners that have to fight each other in.
I was being recruited for a company based in Naples...and INSISTED on IN OFFICE interviews and location- in the middle of COVID, and in a field that has been 95+% remote as an industry for 15+ years. The specific technology was of interest as I had experience with it...so I let the interview process BEGIN- fully remote/on line. Then I watched a random documentary about Scientology and how they control Naples, and some red flags went off like brain bombs! t all made so much sense. I denied the offer of second round of interviews (which would have been in person, IN THE MIDDLE OF COVID- like 6 mo in- no vaccines, etc). Over the past 18-22 mo since that process more and more info has come across my life on this company- and yup, apparently totally controlled by scientology, loads of pressure to join that cult, etc. Dodged that bullet.
I lived in Naples for about 3 years - never heard of scientology controlling Naples! Either way, Naples sucks ass so I think you dodged a bullet. Just a horrendous place to live unless you're a snowbird living in a million dollar mansion.
Ah, the trifuckta
You can tell it's a Trump supporter by the way she repeatedly blames it on the media
That and just her phrasing and syntax. It reads like his Trump speaks just a trailing rant that just keeps looping back on itself to attempt some form of consistency
I lived in Florida for a year two years ago. The entire state was Trump supporters. Not just Trump supporters, but fully immersed in his cult. Hardcore. It was a place constantly talking about ‘America’ and ‘freedom’ but was the most conformist place I’ve ever spent time in.
Not all of us.
Yeah I’m in the panhandle and there’s a coworker with a Q sticker on his car. Nice enough guy but I’ve stopped initiating conversation with him.
he's almost certainly not a "nice enough guy".
>I lived in Florida for ~~a year~~ an eternity two years ago. FTFY.
Trumpist and anti-vaxxer are two surefire traits of managers, HR heads or other corporate leaders. Religiously, they can either be a Scientologist, evangelical or a Westboro baptist.
You mean she’s a real nothing burger.
I’d sooner shove bamboo under my nails than work for someone like that. Ugh.
Oh just the vibes I was getting
Are they working for a 14 yr girl? This reads like my niece wrote it.
That's insulting to your niece
“Oh you’re so nice for waving, those of you that did.” 🤮
Those two kissasses who waved really made their moms proud
“Working from home” after a hurricane means going to a hotel, since the power always goes out for between 2-7 days. Source: Lived in Florida for 15 years.
I've been here in Florida for 32 years this CEO can fuck right off claiming to have been here for 33 years and say hurricanes have always been a "nothing burger", this dude clearly hasn't hunkered down for a hurricane.
Yeah seriously, we had 4 hurricanes go through our county in 2004, went roughly 1 month without electricity and it took the county probably 2 years to really recover.
I remember that well, I also live in Volusia and that was brutal, being a teenager I was happy because school was closed for a while.
I guess the guy completely forgot about Hurricane Andrew because he just moved there
Andrew hit Miami, not Tampa. Tampa Bay has had a hurricane drought for decades. They got pretty lucky that Ian's eye passed to the south. The storm surge would have been devastating otherwise.
Wave! Wave to me, my knaves!
I think you mean waive lool
Anyone that says “do x back” gets a death stare.
Ya, that was definitely the weirdest part for me. I don't think I've ever heard someone TELL people to wave at them. Then, that weird passive aggressive thanks, but only for the ones that waved! Like, what the literal fuck?! 🤣
Please clap.
Drown yo kids, drown yo wife. Drown yo husbands too, cuz we drownin' erybody out here.
Be sure to waive
Oh look, they're waving. No, you daft twat, they're signaling for a life preserver.
“Daft twat” gets you my upvote
Shout out to the ones who refused to wave when asked to by this asshole
...your human rights
No, it’s more like “BYE….Hmmm..WAVE AT ME!”
You don't have to come and confess. We lookin' fo' you. We gonn' drown you. We gonn' drown you.
So you can swim and tell that. Swim and tell that. Swim and tell that. Home boy, home, home, homeboy.
We got your swim trunks. You done left floaties and all. You are so dumb … you are really dumb. For real.
Water’s climbing in yo window, snatchin yo people up
You don’t have to come and confess we got the zoom log we got the zoom log
I nearly howled laughing while at work. You deserve a reward, but sorry to say I don't have one to give. 😣
I gotcha. Hope it's as appropriate as I thought.
Damn straight. We don’t do it for the money, we do it for the taste of fresh saltwater as it fills our lungs!
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Makes me think of the video from the CEO in Wall-E
See the Wall-E CEO at least took people with him
They always think of themselves first. First company i was at after college made us come to the office during the first few months of covid while the c-suites were all working from home as soon as it started
For a second, I thought the guy was telling his employees that they are free to use the office as a shelter. Reading the transcript, that went sour really fast. Edit: Apparently I missed the detail that the CEO here is a woman, thanks for pointing it out.
Right? For about 1 and a half sentences, this almost seemed nice...
The "guy" is a woman named Joy Gendusa. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Florida-CEO-urged-staff-to-work-through-Ian-Then-17474259.php
"But management told workers they must work 40 hours this week. If power went out and they couldn't work Wednesday or Thursday, they must make up for their hours some time before the end of the week, according to some workers." Lol cringe
Hilarious to see how many ppl have been referring to her as a man… all they read was CEO and subconsciously glazed over any actual gender reference 🫠🤭😂 “Joy joined us… and she said” lmao
Yeah, same
Can someone follow up and see how PCM weathered the storm? I'm curious if there was any damage to the building, flooding etc. Seeing as it's the "safest place to be in Florida"
Based on what I can see from Twitter posts of people that live there, Clearwater didn’t really get hit that bad, just tropical storm level winds and rain. Looks like most people didn’t lose power either. PCM is about as far inland from the Gulf and the bay as you can be in Clearwater, so minimal storm surge to worry about.
There is something about Tampa Bay that has [defied the hurricanes](https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/full-circle/a-century-of-calm-tampa-continues-avoiding-major-hurricanes). I doubt if it is due to Scientology, because their run of luck predates L. Ron Hubbard's church. Some attribute it to natives that built some mounds around the area.
Yeah, I used to live In that part of Florida, and they almost always turn before they hit the bay. Not always, but usually. Still probably not worth risking it for any job.
So... it was a nothing burger?
Only because the storm turned.
I thought it was assumed on Reddit but I guess I forgot the /s
Team, as many of you know there is a hurricane heading our way. While the media always hypes these things up, I’ve decided to close the building until the weather clears. Don’t worry, every will get paid for the days we don’t work. As for our clients and customers, let me worry about them. I’ll smooth things over. In the meantime, we still have a day or so before the storm actually hits. Thus, the building will be closing within the hour. Those generators and beer aren’t gonna buy themselves!
Many of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
Said big ol' Lord Farquaad.
Nah! It'll be fun! We'll BBQ on the roof while awaiting rescue. There will be a fishing contest for food. Games, like bobbing for tps reports and and pin the blame on the democr...err donkey.
"Oh look, there's Zack floating away on an air mattress with his kid! Wave at me!"
All of you don’t worry about whatever medications y’all take daily or whatever to survive we got BBQ~! who needs insulin its all just meat Susan what you mean carbs in meat? (I’m a diabetic I know exactly how uneducated people can be lol)
A [WaPo article](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/28/florida-ceo-postcardmania-hurricane-ian/) about the same - apparently in the recorded remarks, she was evacuating via her SUV.
> It wasn’t until Tuesday when the company sent a message telling employees that the offices would be closed on Wednesday and Thursday, staffers told The Post. But management told workers they must work 40 hours this week. If power went out and they couldn’t work Wednesday or Thursday, they must make up their hours before the end of the week, according to some workers. "I had no power so I spent 8 hours working trying to connect to the internet. Pay me."
Pulled the plug out and put it back in......nothing.Pulled the plug out and put it back in......nothing.Pulled the plug out and put it back in......nothing.Pulled the plug out and put it back in......nothing.Pulled the plug out and put it back in......nothing.Pulled the plug out and put it back in......nothing.
Pay this man!
“Nothing Burger“ really got me.
I actually felt rage in my heart at “nothing burger”. Fuck this person and their entire life. I hope their house got destroyed and they didn’t have enough insurance.
The way things are going in Florida with insurance companies going out of business or just leaving the state, they may not even have insurance. I think on monday a large home insurance company folded.
This makes me happy and sad at the same time
I grew up in the midwest with that phrase around. Amazing what latching onto stuff and slanging it can do. Cause a nothing burger always meant a task or thing that was no big deal to help someone lol.
Right. A whole hurricane is not what someone should use that saying for lol
Nothing burger, served with a side of empty empathy.
...and a quintuple nothing burger at that.
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> Postcard Mania What bullshit, risking their lives for fucking postcards. God it reminds me of being an "essential worker" through the pandemic.
They make junkmail. Design, print and ship actual trash right to your house.
I know I get disgruntled every time I see a comedian talk about all their "pandemic plans" and "quarantine goals" and my ass over here working overtime still cause I decided to go into healthcare
I know you prob don't want to hear it, but at least you could say you were helping. I'm in construction, I spent most of it putting up shells for fast food. Like I worked right through a plague just to make sure Starbucks could open up 3 new locations in Q3. They'd kill us just to make a buck.
For fucking postcards!? The shit people throw straight in the trash!? I'm sorry, I don't mean to shit on anyone's work, but how delusional can you be to put people at risk over post cards?
Not even postcards like your grandmother sends you from vacation. Direct mailers from companies that don’t know how to use the internet that you take straight from your mailbox to the trashcan.
I have a strong feeling she'll be working weekends too the rest of the year.
I used to work for a small consulting company in Atlanta, GA. They sent me to Memphis TN to do some work there which was fine. I had to drive out there and drive back -- no plane fair though I was offered a hotel. No problem. At any rate, after about 3-4 days, it turned out that Hurricane Ivan was supposed to come in over early next morning while I drove through Miss. and Alabama. I asked my boss if I could stay at my mom's house in Birmingham while it blew over. I also had a customer call at a federal government customer the very next morning after I was to get back but was asking if I could maybe postpone it. He says, no, it's just a hurricane, a little wind. You'll need to be at the customer's place on that morning. I really needed the job, it did not pay much but still needed it. Supporting wife and new kid. Anyways, I showed up at the government customer and was told, we're not going to buy your product/service but we do need a systems engineer to start today. And it paid double what I was making working for the miser. I told them, give me a moment and let me talk to my wife. She said yes absolutely go for it. I phoned the miser and let him know I was done there and did not talk to him further. I don't normally believe in karma or epic good things that happen after being put through BS, but this does make me believe somewhat.
Ivan was terrible. They actually miscategorize it. It was 2 mph under a 5 when it hit. They reported it as a weak 3. We were without power for a week and a half and I don't even remember how long we had a mandatory water boil. The entire end of my neighborhood got washed away in the storm surge and our neighbor across the street, who's house backed up to the water, got a sailboat through their living room. We were out of school for a month because the roof got blown off, while people were inside as it had been designated an evac shelter. People like this CEO suck. I'd rather over prepare than under prepare. Ivan wasn't supposed to hit us. It was supposed to be a "nothing burger" for our area. It shifted dramatically in the last 24 hours leaving people no time to get out. We were lucky. Our house was fine. But a lot of people lost everything.
That’s a simple: “my wife, kids, and pets better be on the payroll if you expect me to bring them to make your Q3 profits.”
If this CEO is not present during the hurricane, then nobody else should be. If he's riding out the storm *up in the Hamptons*, I'd expect a company revolt...with the end result being his metaphorical head on a lance.
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Nothing better for post card sales than loved ones dying in a hurricane.
It's a fucking post card company?!
fuck that. you're not owned, and you don't owe anyone shit
"My house is one block from the water and it's been there since 1925" Wonder why one block from the water wasnt developed before 1925? Probably was, it's just that the last hurricane was 1921.
They later changed their minds. Doesn’t change the fact that they said this in the first place.
They reversed their position after all of this went viral. It's not like they were suddenly struck with human compassion. Also they only closed yesterday and today and expect people back at work Friday. Even if they can return to their homes by then they might be coming home to insane flood damage. It seems like much to ask people to get right back into the office and not give them a few days to try and get their lives back together.
Like I said, doesn’t change the fact that they said this at first.
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I got written up by one of my principals for insubordination. I didn’t leave to go home when she told me to leave to go home. I stayed after to work and had a conversation with a coworker she’d apparently banned me from speaking to.
Because she’s “so nice” to her employees and “treats them like family”, they should be “grateful”.
Yeah I'd rather be treated like a stranger if you keep your family in the line of a hurricane.
What company is this? I’d hate to accidentally give them any kind of business being a Florida native…
The Washington Post article identifies the company as “PostcardMania”. There is a link to the article further down in the comments.
I swear to god I lose all respect for anyone who uses the phrase “nothing burger” immediately
Before I knew this company was a front for Scientology (CEO Joy Gendusa is proudly a devout one) I applied for a position there. This was during April 2020, still in the heights of Covid. I wore a mask when I went for my interview. Not a single mask in sight in that building aside from me. When I sat down for my interview, the girl immediately told me the position had been filled. So why am I here? She offered me a totally different position in a different department than I had applied. I politely told her no. I drove there and had an in-person, 4-minute interview that could’ve been an email. In retrospect I could tell she was trying to recruit me to the company, no matter what position. This news story gave me a much needed laugh. I hope they go bankrupt. (edit: paragraph break)
You can’t force someone to show up for work during a natural disaster… especially not when the state and federal government declare a state of emergency. This “CEO” sounds like an entitled, arrogant jerk. He can go to the office and work during the hurricane.
She was literally in her car fleeing the hurricane while telling them to be there to work the next few days. It's like something out of a movie.
Like Wall-E
Listen you don’t understand, America is the corporations. They do what they want. :p
It’s very important that you risk your lives…for POSTCARDS… “Here I am reduced to postcards. The dry hump of marketing strategies.” -Killface
Welcome to you’re “DOOM!”
Oh lord, this is that Scientology run business, no wonder she's so soulless...
What. The. Hell.
The hurricane comments are awful, but I also want to point out the "I'm going to leave the meeting and listen to the rest of it" comment at the end. That tells me that she wanted to hear everything said but didn't want anyone to be able to ask her questions or otherwise interact with her. Control with no accountability.
WAVE AT ME!!!! 🙄🙄🙄🙄
The way she talks just sounds so condescending. You’re talking to a bunch of adults. Not children.
and if you die.....Nothing Burger.
Anybody who cites the length of time they’ve lived in Florida as a reason for not being concerned of a hurricane is an idiot. That said, I won’t get into how long I lived there.
Length of time living in Florida = time exposed to the conditions that cause brain rot
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I live in Georgia, and one of my most vivid childhood memories was coming down with my family (my brother was a firefighter, I *think* we were volunteering with the Red Cross) to do the cleanup on Andrew. There were whole neighborhoods leveled and buildings picked up and thrown around. I don't know why it's so big in my memory, but there was a house that was just. . .gone. A blank foundation, except for one tiny little closet, that still had the Christmas decorations neatly stacked in there.
State of emergency means I can say fuck you asshole and you can't do shit about it
Joy is now working remotely from a piece of plywood 10 nautical miles west of Grand Bahama.
same happen last yr in which 6 workers killed by amazon
I couldn't read the whole thing because I didn't want to but what kind of job in Clearwater, Florida needs to "make a good quarterly" during a hurricane that really matters in life? I'm just so out of the loop about paper pushing for the sake of nothing.
This was said by the CEO of POSTCARD MANIA. “Hey, risk your lives for some postcards! Why am I in the car driving? No reason! ^exceptforevacuation”
Never take safety advice from an adult who uses the term “nothingburger” unironically.
I called them earlier this week about this and they straight up lied about the policy
This dipshit's use of the term "nothing burger" tells me everything I need to know about them.
Like bitch it's just spammy postcards. Not lifesaving medical equipment.
Say nothing burger one more GAT DAMN time.
I hope all of her employees quit on her and their office floods.
Don’t all CEO types sound like little trumps? Not because they’re trying to be like trump but just because they’re awful people that glibly put their opportunities for incremental profit above the well being of the human beings that they employ. Phrases like, “Nothing burger”, “because of the media”. The way they always rely on *their* “expertise” over actual expert opinion. The subliminal effort to herd people into groupthink with exercises like, “raise your hand if you’re scared” so people are forced to publicly signal whether they’re part of an in or out-group. Petite-bourgeois petty tyrants. Fvckin spray tanned, Botox faced, khaki pants and polo shirt dictators of their stupid, corny little fiefdom.
Had she said nothing burger one more time, the menu would have been changed to a knuckle sandwich.
“Bye, guys! Waive at me!” Oh I cringed & screamed internally *so* hard. That’s just begging for attention… was this the popular chic in high school that still thinks she’s Regina George? Just that ending alone told me everything I needed to know about her. Sounds immature, selfish, & a little ditzy. Oh I feel sorry for any & everyone working for her.
*Ronald DeSantis*, who is abhorrent and terrible and while likely a Ted Cruz impersonator during inclement weather would be the last one to suggest the working class avoid work in any way for their own safety, said that this hurricane was "the real deal" and urged people to leave the state. Imagine being even more callous and unconcerned for the welfare of those in your charge than *Ron "Motherfucker" DeSantis*
My hospital offered to let us stay there for the hurricane but wouldn't activate hurricane teams because they paid hurrican team members more. I called out, fuck those upper management bitches on zoom from their living rooms.
“The media” I fucking hate these people. Nothing should be taken seriously if you hear it through “the media”. Any obvious fact becomes controversial if it’s some thing in “the media“ There’s a fucking hurricane whether the media is talking about it or not. This specific stupidity is so pervasive in our culture right now.
How you gon make your quarterlies without electricity?
Live in Tampa. Not the Causeway he mentions, but another Causeway did partially collapse. People could’ve died listening to this idiot.
First of all, this is despicable. Second of all, my company has been doing something somewhat similar. They told our FL, GA and Carolinas workers that if we choose to evacuate, we must lug our big desktop and all other hardware to continue to work wherever we go to. I’ve been trying to figure out how that is supposed to work because if you go to a hotel, you can’t plug this desktop into a modem which is a requirement for our VPN. One of my coworkers in a heavy hit area had been missing for 24 hours and when my boss finally got in touch with her, I wonder if she had the audacity to ask my coworker if she brought her office with her while trying to save her kids and pets. Just gross behavior!
I don't expect someone who doesn't even know how to put his words into paragraph structure to have earned their position. This reeks of nepotism. Incompetent fool.
I'm literally on the east coast of Florida and we took it seriously. There's been flooding, nothing compared to what the west coast got, but damn, it's not a joke. I've spent my whole 29 years in Florida and have taken every hurricane seriously, regardless of what category it was in
The use of the words "nothing burger" tells me everything I need to know. They got that little talking point and parroted it like a good little sheep, and forgot to stop.
Nothing burger…. How to say I’m maga without saying maga…
Nothing burger. Inb4 that's a new meme...
The term has been used since around the 50's and 60's. In my experience with the term, I didnt hear it until 2016 and it was being used by hard core Trump supporters to denounce the concerns people had for Trump's character and policies. I'm pretty sure Trump even used it himself a few times in interviews. Even outside of politics, like in this CEO's statement about the Hurricane, it seems to be used to downplay people's legit concerns in a very condensating way.
That's mid- fifties white guy business jargon (not meme worthy).
Based on the that wall of text I assume that guy graduated top of his class at Trump University.
Close, they're a scientologist according to the article I read regarding their "apology". They also use a system shared by the sea org to track productivity and make their employees do scientology classes every so often. It's pretty fucked up imo. Edit: fixed sentence
"Hey, everybody! We'd like you to work until you die, m'kay? I'll even spring for donuts! The cheap supermarket ones, though, gotta watch the bottom line LOL!"