HR tried to force employee to join 'wellness walk,' and his iconic response blew up in her face

Engineers are oftentimes bombarded with a huge workload; however, as odd as it sounds, some of them enjoy the hustle. When Karen Resorcé, an HR professional, tried to force an employee to join their new "wellness walk," he refused. Since it did not sit right with her, she asked him to leave, but quickly regretted it. Sharing the exchange, her Twitter post from November 24 has gained 123,000 impressions so far.

Resorcé shared an ordeal she had faced at the company with a backend engineer. Her company had hosted a wellness walk on November 24, Monday, for all the employees. "Nothing strenuous, just a 15-minute stroll around the building to reconnect with our bodies." While everybody joined, one engineer stayed back. Resorcé "gently" asked if everything was alright, to which he responded that he "didn't feel like walking in a circle for no reason." Resorcé asserted that wellness wasn't about the walk, but the willingness to comply. "He said he was willing to work, not walk," she wrote.

This did not sit right with Resorcé, who asked him to walk out the door and never come back if he felt that way. Surprisingly, without any hesitation, he walked out and never returned. Safe to say, the HR now looks for a new backend engineer to fill his position immediately. A 2017 study authored by Daniel Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm, Xiaofeng Wang, and Pekka Abrahamsson interviewed 2,220 software developers to understand their emotional experiences at work. The study found that developers described themselves as "a slightly happy population," but the study also highlighted that many developers experience episodes of unhappiness caused by recurring issues such as work-related stress, poorly designed processes, and unrealistic deadlines.

u/yallapapi shared it to Reddit, where users found themselves in splits. u/NateEbner wrote, "Engineer didn't refuse the wellness walk. He optimized it by removing unnecessary loops." u/Life-Silver-5623 commented, "Easiest way to lose a good SE3 is to ask them to do anything else." u/InSearchOfTyrael wrote, "what about mandatory fun? don't you want to waste hours of your personal time so you could do an activity with people you work with? An activity you would never do yourself, btw." u/Ciubowski shared, "I remember this one lady at a previous job I had, she also was trying to "gently ask" why am I not engaging with my colleagues in my breaks and socialize (I was working at a call center and all I wanted was some peace and quiet before a new wave of calls)." u/Shifter25 wrote about their polar-opposite manager, "I will say this for my manager: not only is she not interested in mandatory fun, she even forbids 'documented' fun, such as a 'fun' teams channel. She's very much a proponent of 'get in, do your job, get out.'"

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