Bleak workplace 'wellness room' inspires jokes and memes: 'A room to go in and scream without disturbing your coworkers'

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Aug 2, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

Perhaps one of the most annoying developments in the workplace culture of the 2020s is companies pretending to care about your mental health. We started to have candid conversations about things like stress and burnout and then corporate culture decided to co-opt this to try and make themselves look progressive. The truth is, no amount of HR-mandated breathing exercises or free bananas in the break room are going to make a terrible job better.

It doesn't stop workplaces from trying, though, as recently seen in a hilarious thread where one employee exposed the miserable space that their company had designated as the 'wellness room' in their office. It wasn't long before people were riffing on this place that closely resembled a windowless prison cell (allegedly, it was a former storeroom). If nothing else, it is nice to see there is somewhere to get away from annoying coworkers now and then. 

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    Rose @rose_jlab Follow my workplace has a "wellness" room and it's just this weirdly long room that obviously used to be a storage space that looks like this
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    Rose @rose_jlab. 2d Replying to @rose_jlab pov you just caught me avoiding work in the wellness room
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    Rose @rose_jlab · 2d wellness moment Rose @rose_jlab. 2d Replying to @OblongBurrbank
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    President of Jelly Beans @jellybeansprez Replying to @rose_jlab Follow So it's just a room to go in and scream without disturbing your coworkers?
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    emily lace surname Replying to @rose_jlab @exalt_emily. 2d : are the flowers plastic, or will they wilt and go brown over the next week? I feel that the plants being dead would add to the je ne sais quoi of the Wellness Chamber
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    van haley@vanhaley_yt. 2d Replying to @rose_jlab i would not get better in there. i would get worse
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    Ghost Fysche @GhoschiPfysche . 2d Replying to @rose_jlab You sit down and there's an overly tall pale man across from you, you swear you locked the door.
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    Chris Alvino @ChrisAlvino ⚫2d Replying to @rose_jlab This looks like something out of Twin Peaks
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    Hepatitis 5G @Hep5G. 2d ALT
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    @ecto_fun 2d lala wellness
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    ellory smith @ellorysmith 2d This is where they put you when you start to notice the Labor Violations
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    flglmn @flglmn. 2d every time you return to the wellness room the chair is further away. after you've been there a few years the chair is a full day's expedition
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    Juliet Brando @sliderulesyou. 2d Looks like a space Jamiroquai would struggle to keep his balance in during the '90s.
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    Ed Zitron @edzitron. 1d I would love to be waiting in here for someone with my legs crossed, and look up and say "I've, been expecting you," like the G-Man
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    Chłoddy @OfSymbols • 2d I just love the idea of Kelly from HR leaning her head round the door periodically saying "are you well yet? It's been 30 minutes..."
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    Juliet Brando @sliderulesyou. 2d Looks like a space Jamiroquai would struggle to keep his balance in during the '90s.
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    Jackson Frank @jackfrank_jjf. 2d ...
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