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Posted on 06/18/2026 5:58:37 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
When Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that employees would be required to return to the office five days a week, he argued that in-person work would strengthen culture, collaboration, and innovation. Similar explanations have accompanied countless workplace decisions in recent years. Job cuts, pay freezes, and restructurings have routinely been packaged as opportunities for companies to become more agile, resilient, or future-ready.
Whether these explanations are sincere or strategic, often bear only a passing resemblance to reality. The obvious question is: who even falls for statements that seem absurdly false or self-serving? According to new research out of Cornell University, certain characteristics mean some people are more likely to buy into the corporate nonsense than others.
The newly-developed Corporate Bulls--- Receptivity Scale measures individual differences in susceptibility to corporate bulls---, which we will refer to as “corporate nonsense” going forward. It’s important to note that being receptive to corporate nonsense is not the same as being open to general corporate speak. The difference is that the former is a deliberate attempt to manipulate others and is characterized by an indifference to the truth. It is designed to be unclear and to come across as more impressive than it actually is.
Employees who are more likely to find meaning in vague corporate language are also substantially more likely to feel inspired by organizational mission statements, which are often the pinnacle of corporate nonsense. Worryingly, those who have high trust in their supervisor are also more susceptible to corporate nonsense.
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Remember “Don’t Be Evil”?
Mission, Vision, and purpose statements. I hated the meetings to create those.
Did WFH as Covid began. Never missed a beat as the team was spread out around the country. Used microsoft teams for meetings. Saved a ton of money and time by not driving to the office just to do the same thing I could do at home.
And 'anonymous' engagement surveys try to weed them out.
Until corporate leadership learns that a business’s main purpose is to provide high paying, cushy jobs with low expectations and minimal responsibilities, they will continue to push “corporate nonsense” on employees. The world would be a much better place if they would simply direct-deposit large sums of money into the bank accounts of employees and not hassle them about attendance, punctuality and productivity.
Years ago I got a call from a headhunter about a “great job opportunity”. I was able to get the company name from her and look at their website. They saw themselves as “digital change agents” and other such BS. I was laughing so hard that my boss came in and I explained the headhunter call and showed him the website. He said “if YOU went there you would be begging for this job back within a week”.
I was trying to find the old Dilbert Mission Statement Generator, but it seems it’s no longer available.
That produced some doozies.
It was pretty revealing to read this week where Jeff Bezos said that buying the Washington Post was his worst acquisition and that the people there are awful.
https://lotta.se/mission-statement-generator/?yes_indeed=1756609270
“The legendary Dilbert Mission Statement Generator went offline in 2008 and I couldn’t find a good replacement. So I made this. I hope it will cater to all your Mission Statement needs even though my contraption is nothing but a faint shadow of the original.”
“We seek to do more, faster, with less”
Yes. I thought that too but the surprise wasn’t that the people who work there are awful but that Jeff Bezos came out and said so. And fired half the company.
The world owes a incredible debt to the late Scott Adams. The cartoons were priceless but he was also willing to write the books such as "The Dilbert Principle", calling out the truth about sociopathy in korporations.
And with an exponential increase in growth driven profit!
“When Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that employees would be required to return to the office five days a week, he argued that in-person work would strengthen culture,...”
I may be off base here but why should he need or even feel obligated to argue that employees follow the company policy that there butts go in seats at the office not at home. It is not falling for “corporate nonsense” to work at the place and in the manner you were hired for. The nonsense is the coddling of workers by coaxing them.
Best Mission Statement, Evah!
May the grammar gods forgive me. I meant “their” seats.
Conclusion:
Those that do not stand for something moral, will fall for anything.
And:
There is a sucker born again every minute.
Worryingly, those who have high trust in their supervisor are also more susceptible to corporate nonsense.
Prolly applies to gubmint.
Folks wrecked with covid fear doing whatever the pinheads of public health asked
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