Did you hear the one about the Netflix exec who was fired from his million-dollar job after participating in a trust exercise at a company retreat?
Seems like there should be a joke in there somewhere, but that’s not how he took it. He’s suing Netflix because they used an admission during a trust exercise–that he had taken a medically supervised ketamine treatment for depression after the death of his mother, a treatment which is, by the way, legal–as part of the reason for firing him.
What were the comments? To never trust a trust exercise. Big brother is always watching you and will use whatever methods they have to find out everything they can about you. And eventually use it against you.
It’s a sad state of affairs. Both as commentary on the perceived integrity of these trust exercises and the perceived integrity of the companies using them. It will be interesting to see if the courts accord such admissions any protection based on the stated situation: that the participants are in a safe space where they can trust others with their private lives.