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[Kamina]

The reasoning isn't bad. Rituals help a lot for group cohesion, and singing can be an effective tool in those (since it can carry emotion, and anything rhythmic is easily shared). That's why all armies have their war songs and marching steps. See also in older cultures people singing together while doing work like doing laundry, cooking, cutting wood, sailing,...
Of course you need GOOD rituals for it to look cool.

Of course. However, depending on the place and time, and especially the job, it can be very unfitting.
Military is one thing. Team reliance is important. But i dont think Supermarket workers can be compared to that when running up and down managing inventories or working at the cashier.
If my boss asked us to do that every morning in office I'd look for another job.

 

[Dice]

I worked at a Target for a seasonal position once. We didn't do this crap but we did have dumb meetings every morning. The only cool boss used to be a football coach so he understood orchestrating and motivating teams of people with different personalities and such. Target has this "team" policy where you have 5-6 bosses asking you to do stuff at once but none of them can tell you to do anything. Like literally even if you request a direct command, they can't dish it out. Passive-aggressive hell. With the cool coach boss around, things felt like you were rebuilding from a natural disaster rather than playing 4D chess at city council. The other leads naturally deferred to his wishes because everything just worked better that way.

 

[CyberPanda]

I worked at a Target for a seasonal position once. We didn't do this crap but we did have dumb meetings every morning. The only cool boss used to be a football coach so he understood orchestrating and motivating teams of people with different personalities and such. Target has this "team" policy where you have 5-6 bosses asking you to do stuff at once but none of them can tell you to do anything. Like literally even if you request a direct command, they can't dish it out. Passive-aggressive hell. With the cool coach boss around, things felt like you were rebuilding from a natural disaster rather than playing 4D chess at city council. The other leads naturally deferred to his wishes because everything just worked better that way.

Well that's because Target is better than Wall-Mart.

 

[Kagey K]

I work at Walmart. There's actually a cheer, but it's "Give Me a W, etc, etc, etc". I've never seen it done seriously, only sarcastically.

I remember when a worked there for a stint during college and they made us do that, including the stupid fucking "squiggle"

Omg it was terrible. I hated closing just because of it.

 

[HaveButOneLife]

It's not all that bad, it depends on who's running the place. That Supercenter takes it to extreme levels.

 

[Ar¢tos]

I worked in a big supermarket for a few years. The things that happened in the no costumers zone (offices, warehouses, waste disposal, loading docks, etc) were unbelievable...
I still miss the forklift races and pallet surfing.

 

[Tesseract]

It's not all that bad, it depends on who's running the place. That Supercenter takes it to extreme levels.

 

[Mistake]

I've been a part of a few team building exercises. I'm sure I have the expression of "someone's getting knifed in parking lot," so I'm usually allowed to skip them.

 

[brap]

What the FUCK. This is a fucking cult.

 

[J-Roderton]

Holy shit that was cringe to the max.

 

[Revreign]

I used to work nights and would go to Walmart overnight since it was all that was open. More than once I saw them grouped up in electronics by the back door singing and dancing to their Walmart song

 

[Call_me_shane]

I worked at an Amazon warehouse and they did stuff like this too. Amazon also did stretches like it was gym class. I didn't mind the stretches, but the cheering and singing was too much. Who in the world thought this stuff was a good idea?

 

[haxan7]

I wonder how they'd feel if you snuck in a couples spirited 'hail satans' during the chant

 

[cr0w]

I don't think they'd notice, 98% of the people are astral projected into their happy places during those fucking cheers.

 

[Liljagare]

I worked at Sear's in the 90's, same crap during morning meetings.

Felt really cringy.

 

[bronk]

There is no way NO WAY I wouldn't laugh out loud and be fired.

 

[CyberPanda]

You should see what happens at a Wal Mart bathroom.