How to Tell If Your Job Is a Cult
Is your workplace a community or a congregation? Chuck & Andrew skewer the culty side of “culture”: forced fun, founder worship, surveillance-y “care,” and those rituals that eat your calendar and your soul. Then they map the healthy alternative—psychological safety, clear boundaries, dissent that isn’t punished, and values that don’t require chanting. If your team ends meetings with a slogan… this one’s for you.
In this episode:
- The “too much” test: when culture tips into control
- Rituals vs. productivity (and why your introverts are quietly dying inside)
- Founder worship, ghost-of-the-founder energy, and anti-dissent norms
- Surveillance theater (Zoom all day? Heartbeat monitoring? hard pass.)
- Practical manager moves: celebrate results, model boundaries, invite questions
Listen, laugh, and send this to the coworker who refuses to chant.
Stay safe, stay kind and stay human!
