[Tade0]

Just recently I started working at the sixth place in my 9-year career(excluding side jobs), so I am somewhat cynical.

Here's the main problem with having a culture code:

It's often created and agreed upon by a clique of employees who've been working there for years - newcomers get a say inversely proportional to the number of employees they encountered on their first day.

The best culture I participated in was in a project where we were all contractors in a freshly formed team - working remotely at that, with no code of conduct aside from maybe "don't be an asshole" - enforced by our leader, who was by the way great at her job.

I'm still in touch with these people even though we were disbanded after six months and that was there years ago.

[commandlinefan]

"We're super inclusive! We ooze inclusivity! We've never been non-inclusive ever, not even once!" This whole thing reminds me of a post I saw on reddit a few days ago:

My 4-year-old: "Daddy, I didn't go peepee anywhere in the house. I just want you to know that."

[Tade0]

And most of time these declarations are true initially, but with staff rotation that erodes away eventually.

Also yeah - major red flag.

EDIT: Good culture doesn't require this kind of posturing.

[Chris2048]

pseudo-woke?

[skeeter2020]

My old company's entire HR "manual":

Recognizing that we are all here voluntarily, please use your best judgement.