Dear Back Market,
We thought being weird was part of your culture.
While we do find it weird you’re following Amazon’s lead, we’d rather you didn’t. We know you can be fun, nice, inclusive, welcoming, surprising and much more: that’s what we love about you. We feel you conveyed the opposite in your recent communications. Is this funk?
Here’s our punk
Listen to this sick playlist, read what we stand for:
Emojis 🏚️🏚️🏚️🏚️🏚️🏚️🏚️🏚️🏚️🏚️
We’re still organising ourselves, and while we decide what actions we may actually take (🎳?): here’s a simple non intrusive way to show your disapproval on slack.
We choose to set the :derelict_house_building: 🏚️ emoji as status. With Yvon Chouinard’s “Let my people go surfing” as text: that’s what we’ve been sold.
Extract of the BM Sabotage! Manual, 2021. ©Back Market
Standing for ourselves
"I know we hired you remote somehow...
— Forrest is at re:Invent (@forrestbrazeal) July 8, 2024
But that was then, and this is now."
New song: the RTO (Return-To-Office) Tango pic.twitter.com/rB3RNHJLDR
It’s complicated expressing yourself on corporate channels. Instead, we want you to use this website as a platform. Reach out to us with your silliest memes, fave songs, tear-dropping testimonials, support messages or whatever you have: share your culture and more. We’ll post it here if it’s appropriate and we have your consent. Come as you are. That’s how we like you. We’ll stand up for you.
This extends to non-French, non-unionized employees. It’s not like we work together on a daily basis ;)
We really hope it’s not too late
Even the best fuck up, occasionally
We like you named your new rules Office Policy 2.0. It means it’s versionned ❤️. Thanks for adopting our culture. That being said given the number of modifications, it’s probably 2.4.3 now. Or maybe it’s some weird reference to web 2.0 being the collaborative web? If it aint broke, don’t fix it. If there’s an incident, we rollback. Hit that revert button.
Waterfall is the new agile
No data is backing what we say
Hooray! Drop the data, we’re a gut-feeling driven company now!
- No more Backbox algorithm! Let’s have Sellers’ team organize wrestling games to decide who gets to sell iPhones
- No more marketing analytics! Let’s just throw our money at Google, they’ll know what to do
- No more NPS! My mum said she’d recommend us to her friends, that’s all I need to know!
- No more sprint sizing! Heck no more PMs, who needs advice getting in the way of a good business decisions?
Anyways, here’s Wonderwall
Oops, wrong song. Whatevs amirite…
Share this post, watch this space :)
Solidairement,
Badge Market Solidaires Informatique Union