Tampaknya Mike Judge, sang kreator serial TV Silicon Valley, ingin membuat Pied Piper terlihat nyata dengan membuat website-nya. Dengan tampilannya oke, dengan profil perusahaan, pendiri dan blog, website Pied Piper cukup meyakinkan meski tanpa aplikasi untuk didownload. Dari tanggal di url blog dan komentar pengunjung, sepertinya website ini baru di buat sekitar bulan April tahun ini dan dikelola oleh Jared Dunn, Kepala Pengembangan Bisnis Pied Piper. Dunn juga yang berperan aktif menulis blog yang berisi seputar aktifitas organisasi yang hampir semuanya diadaptasi dari serial tv. Meski begitu, ada artikel yang menurut saya keren, yaitu Workplace Harassement Policy (Kebijakan Anti-Pelecehan di Kantor). Sebagaimana kita tahu, para pegawai Pied Piper sering mengeluarkan kata-kata rasis, porno dan kotor, maka dengan lahirnya kebijakan ini saya rasa Jared Dunn sudah membuat terobosan baru dalam membentuk budaya perusahaan.
Our Workplace Harassment Policy
– by Jared Dunn
Time to get real here, people.
We’ve had a lot of fun on this blog. No one more than I. You have no idea how I look forward to settling down with the ol’ laptop, a nice pear cider and banging out a post for you good folks to read. But now, I want to start a dialogue about something of great importance, particularly here in the Valley where our track record has been decidedly mixed: I’m talking about Pied Piper’s workplace harassment policy.
Pied Piper has instituted a zero-tolerance workplace harassment policy. Any employee experiencing harassment is urged to report this to the Acting Vice-Director of Human Resources—that’s me (no one else wanted to do it). I made myself vice instead of full acting director so as not to seem intimidating to employees wishing to report abuse. After a report of this kind, an investigation will occur. The employee(s) in question will be spoken to. And if appropriate, disciplined up to actual termination (!). The anonymity of the complainant will be strictly maintained.
Pied Piper will, of course, have zero tolerance for harassment based on gender, race, sexuality, religion or lack thereof, class, trans status or ableness. Pied Piper will also of course not merely prohibit harassment that is direct and public but also less direct harassment that creates a hostile workplace. But furthermore, Pied Piper will join the cutting edge of the harassment-detection industry in forbidding microaggressions, nanoaggresions, picoaggressions, yoctoaggressions and all such oppression “particles,” if you will, down to the quantum level.
Pied Piper additionally forbids man-splaining, white-splaining, straight-splaining, cis-splaining, able-splaining, splain-splaining, splain-plaining, splain-shaming and, in general, saying things people doesn’t like. Discussion or possession of the Kurt Vonnegut short story “Harrison Bergeron” will be grounds for immediate termination.
Next Tuesday, I will lead a harassment workshop, “Understanding Why What You’re Saying Is Terrible.” There will be cupcakes.