NBR: Would you be annoyed to get this from your employer?

SnShne322 · October 2015

Just curious. J's work sent this out today. They also have signs all over work about soda and candy being bad for you (duh). It's the automotive industry, so it's not related to their field. I can't tell if I'm just BEC since I have feelings about them as my former employers. I feel like we're all adults and we can monitor our candy or food intake without this.

Informative or Condescending? What says NBC?

SusieBW · October 2015

My work has a whole wellness thing, so there is stuff like this kicking around All. The. Time. So I don't really think it's a big deal. Every elevator in our building has a sign next to it about how many calories you'd be burning if you took the stairs, and what a lazy bastard you are for taking the elevator. Ok, maybe it doesn't actually say that last part, but it might as well.

SnShne322 · October 2015

SusieBW said:

My work has a whole wellness thing, so there is stuff like this kicking around All. The. Time. So I don't really think it's a big deal. Every elevator in our building has a sign next to it about how many calories you'd be burning if you took the stairs, and what a lazy bastard you are for taking the elevator. Ok, maybe it doesn't actually say that last part, but it might as well.

YES! That's the part that I don't like. The implication that is almost there, but not quite said.

CeeCeeSugaPie · October 2015

I think, just to be contrary, I would be eating ALL THE CANDY at work just to show them who's boss. I work in healthcare IT and there is always a metric ton of food and goodies floating around. I had 4 pumpkin spice cookies just yesterday. During a recent upgrade, the CEO even brought in her favorite craft beers. Sometimes I wish we were a little more health conscious though.

SusieBW · October 2015

SnShne322 said:

SusieBW said:

My work has a whole wellness thing, so there is stuff like this kicking around All. The. Time. So I don't really think it's a big deal. Every elevator in our building has a sign next to it about how many calories you'd be burning if you took the stairs, and what a lazy bastard you are for taking the elevator. Ok, maybe it doesn't actually say that last part, but it might as well.

YES! That's the part that I don't like. The implication that is almost there, but not quite said.

All the rhetoric behind this stuff is just education, education, education, though. I think they mean well, and the point is just to get you to think twice about the snacks you choose, but people are sensitive to shit like this, and I think it's often taken the wrong way.

We even have a wellness incentive program, where if you do these various wellness things (about every other month or so), you earn cash. Like, complete this insurance company healthy lifestyle survey and get $50. Or use this free pedometer for a month and report your steps and get $100. Again, its about making people think about healthy things.

RevJen · October 2015

A lot of employers are moving to a credit type of system which will lower premiums if you hit certain milestones. The ones who do seem to have those sorts of motivational signage.

SnShne322 · October 2015

Interesting. I imagine it's probably well intended, true. It's probably BEC territory for me since I know the woman who does them.

Perspective is a good thing.

RevJen · October 2015

Plus it helps them lower their insurance costs if they're self-insured.

RiverPlate · October 2015

My work sends out stuff like this all the time. They just sent out a wellness incentive where you log your physical activity online and you can win the super nice Fitbits.

Also, if you take an online health survey and get your biometrics checked yearly (which tells you if you're high risk for stuff like Type 2 diabetes or if your cholesterol is high and then they send all this stuff on what that means and how to better position yourself to not have a heart attack but doesn't actually put an onus on anyone to actually DO something about it) you get $350 in your HSA if just the employee does it and $700 if the employee and spouse do it.

Jliongrrrl · October 2015

Interesting that it's an automotive industry sending this out. I work at a university medical center and they don't send us any of this! We use to get a credit to our Health Reimbursement Accounts for doing the biometric screening but this year we do not. We actually have to do the tobacco cheek swab (colchicine) testing or we are charged an extra $70 a pay for our insurance. I'm all about not smoking, but I think $70 a pay is pretty steep.

SusieBW · November 2015

Jliongrrrl said:

Interesting that it's an automotive industry sending this out. I work at a university medical center and they don't send us any of this! We use to get a credit to our Health Reimbursement Accounts for doing the biometric screening but this year we do not. We actually have to do the tobacco cheek swab (colchicine) testing or we are charged an extra $70 a pay for our insurance. I'm all about not smoking, but I think $70 a pay is pretty steep.

Whoa, they test you for smoking cigarettes? That's insane. I didn't even know that was possible. We've had a paper that they asked us to sign saying either that we don't smoke or that we were currently trying to quit, and for signing it we'd get a one-time $50 incentive credit, but no one was charged for not doing it or anything.

Jliongrrrl · November 2015

SusieBW said:

Jliongrrrl said:

Interesting that it's an automotive industry sending this out. I work at a university medical center and they don't send us any of this! We use to get a credit to our Health Reimbursement Accounts for doing the biometric screening but this year we do not. We actually have to do the tobacco cheek swab (colchicine) testing or we are charged an extra $70 a pay for our insurance. I'm all about not smoking, but I think $70 a pay is pretty steep.

Whoa, they test you for smoking cigarettes? That's insane. I didn't even know that was possible. We've had a paper that they asked us to sign saying either that we don't smoke or that we were currently trying to quit, and for signing it we'd get a one-time $50 incentive credit, but no one was charged for not doing it or anything.

Last year we had to sign a thing affirming that we didn't smoke. This year, everyone gets to swab their cheeks for nicotine. Gotta love health care and insurances

Skeezon · November 2015

It wouldn't bother me. My last job had a whole wellness thing through our insurance company. We had contests and fitness tracking things for prizes. We got stuff like that all the time.

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