Dear staff,
It has come to our attention that a number of you have responded to “RUOK”
day by telling co-workers that you are okay. This is deeply concerning.
The year is 2022. We have just lived through global lockdowns, there are two pandemics
raging, Europe’s at war, half the world is either flooding or in drought, billionaires are building
space ships for fun while you're all living off subsistence wages, and U2 is threatening to
tour again. Frankly if your mental health is not taking a battering right now, that’s extremely
worrying, and we'd encourage therapy to work through it.
In any case, if you really are happy and thriving right now, please keep it to yourself. Your
relentless 'this is fine' optimism in the face of society burning down around you is just
making the rest of us depressed.
Sincerely,
The HR department