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I work for (big evil labour contracting company), which contracts help desk employees to (bigger & even more evil IT company). Our managers and HR representatives have a proven history of lying to their employee's faces and spewing bullshit in order to achieve a desired goal, which usually involves threatening us for playing games & watching things on youtube or scaring us into working harder by telling us fake statistics about how bad (certain day of the year) was last year.

Today's latest round of bullshit spewing transpired as such:

My HR representative, who works for (big evil labour contracting company), gave me a "friendly reminder" not to play games during work hours, and that (bigger & even more evil IT company)'s assets, ie. the laptop they assigned me, are for business use only. I asked her what I should be doing, then, in the 5-10 minutes I often have between calls.

Her answer: I'm supposed to go on (bigger & even more evil IT company)'s intranet website and research the company history and how our manager's vision and business plan for the office I work from fits in with (bigger & even more evil IT company)'s overall goals.

Her reasoning: Doing so will give me a greater appreciation for the business that takes place here, will give me a better perspective on what part my contribution (ie answering the phone) plays in the grand scheme of things, and, get this: will "allow me to communicate with (bigger & even more evil IT company)'s employees on a deeper level", thereby improving my overall value to (bigger & even more evil IT company).

This is like trying to get people who clean septic tanks for a living to care about their company's goal of creating a city with less shit in it. It's just not going to happen.