An ITT subsidiary made the employees sign a contract outlining all things we could be fired for. The contract was necessary because several of the things were not legal to fire someone for. One of those things was, “I agree to never, under any circumstances tell a joke.” I asked why and the HR lady answered, wide-eyed, “You have NO IDEA who you might offend.” My thought was I don’t give a s#$% who I offend. But I needed the job. But that’s the new corporate attitude. It was one of the worst places to work I’d ever been. It was the final place but the last two places, you’d see people down the hall and before beginning a conversation they’d both look around to make certain no one could overhear. Very paranoid. All because of ESG/DEI which is just cultural Marxism. A Russian who lived in the Soviet Union said he felt less free in the American workplace than in the Soviet Union. He said, “one wrong word will get you fired.” He was right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissar
In the Red Army, a political commissar was a high-ranking functionary at a military headquarters who held coequal rank and authority with the military commander of the unit. The Bolshevik Party established political commissars in 1918 to control and improve morale in the military forces. Commissars were in charge of communist political propaganda and indoctrinating the public with communist ideology. From 1917 the Bolshevik administration, like the Provisional Government before it, relied on experienced (ex-Tsarist) army-officers whose loyalty it distrusted. Trotsky summarised the solution to the issue: “We took a military specialist and we put on his right hand and on his left a commissar [...].”[2] During the early stages of the usage of commissars, no military order might be issued which did not have the prior approval of both the commander and the commissar.
Many lower-level political officers never received the same military training as commanding officers. Prior to becoming a commissar an individual had to be registered as a communist for a minimum of three years and had to attend specific political institutions, many of which never offered any military-oriented training.
Following the problems encountered in 1941 with dual commanders in units, commissars and other political officers were removed from direct command-roles. Political officers were then more directly tasked with morale- and regulation-based goals. A political officer’s classification changed to the form of a “Deputy for Political Matters” in 1942. The specific position of “Commissar” itself survived only at regimental and front levels, where the Commissars formed the Military Councils with their corresponding military commanders.
Other Communist-bloc militaries also adopted systems of using political commissars. Mulvenon and Yang (2002) report that the role of the political commissar in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has become one resembling that of an HR specialist.[3]
“I agree to never, under any circumstances tell a joke.” I asked why and the HR lady answered, wide-eyed, “You have NO IDEA who you might offend.”
I’d of never made it out of the interview. The first thing I thought was “well that seems so easy even a caveman could do it”.
https://discoverjokes.com/jokes-about-hr/
75 Hilarious Jokes About HR That Will Have You LOL-ing at Work
jokes exist but none of them are funny.