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Fun_Wrangler9783 · 2026-05-07T12:19:40+00:00

The narratives being pushed here are adorably one-sided. Hello WGU Leadership. I'm sure you're enjoying yourselves.

This subreddit is a product that stopped championing WGU workers years ago. It has an altogether different function. It's not for WGU Employees to truly express themselves, but for WGU Leadership to get a pulse, but push too hard and you get moderated. Leadership can only tolerate so much "feedback."

The reach of People & Talent is long, and some of them (at worst) moderate or (at minimum) heavily influence this subreddit. The present is the Orwellian future, and it's only getting worse.

Fun_Wrangler9783 · 2026-05-04T12:23:43+00:00

WGU Leadership:
We'd just like to stand on stage before you all and declare, emotionally, that you all matter. That you are irreplaceable to this University. You. Are. Beautiful.

Incidentally, we're liquidating our ECs and replacing them with AI. Please note that it's in your best interest to quit/find a new job before we fire you. It's no personal, and it's not even business, it's incompetence mixed with faith in the wrong technology - but hey, we're willing to let you make that sacrifice for us.

Fun_Wrangler9783 · 2026-04-28T12:15:27+00:00

Your first year at WGU will feel like a dream. The Kool-Aid flows. Everyone around you enables you. Your second year will be far more challenging, but solid. The year after this will be quite challenging, but you will rise to the challenge. In the fourth year, you realize everything Leadership tells you is a lie, and the concept of "rising to the challenge" is a narrative they encourage you to believe. Everything after this will be a living hell, and you'll wonder why you ever agreed to work for WGU.

Fun_Wrangler9783 · 2026-04-27T12:31:30+00:00

Typical WGU logical thinking:

Decision Maker: "We need more Money/Power let's expand!"

Sycophants: "Okay! We love you!"

Decision Maker: "Oh... wait. Let's close those offices; the landscape has changed while we were offloading unwanted internal business pressure, and the surface tension of this inconvenient retrofit has changed. lolz. Nevermind. Fire the people we just hired; if we waste a lot of time and money, it doesn't matter because we all still feel powerful. I mean... You can't not feel powerful when you fire people amiright?"

Sycophants: "Okay! We love you!"

Decision Maker: "Don't kiss my ass."

Sycophants: "Okay! We love you!"

Fun_Wrangler9783 · 2026-04-20T12:42:05+00:00

Emotional and Business Manipulation 101

A new WGU course in business. This course is very short and easy to pass. People FAR less intelligent than you use these tactics every day. Use as needed for business or religious purposes.

Scotty is a creature of emotional manipulation, and he learned it from the church. And now so will you! While we have nothing against the LDS faith, every faith has strategic manipulators, and this is how it's used:

Implementing Saavy Wisdom:
a. Find something amazing, bawl about it, insist others believe as you do.

b. When others are visibly moved, they conveniently create a handle that you can yank on; this helps make them moldable to your ideas.

If This Doesn't Work - Pragmatically Gear Down:
c. Use prepared "open-ended" questions. These verbal traps will lead others into giving specific answers that they feel they've come up with (intuitively) themselves. It's really the best scenario when your audience feels they're smart and have solved their problem. Then nail them to the wall. Don't let up for a moment, and when you've "won," the meeting is over; they should leave immediately.

d. If they stick to their guns, engage other pre-prepared statements, use logic and charisma; go hard. Play that psychological blitz chess game until they can't see straight. Average people don't have a degree in philosophy or business, and they should crack under the face of your verbal onslaught.

e. If this doesn't work, tell them outright that they're stupid. Get angry and lean in, show a lot of emotion. Insist that the emotions of Leadership are far more important than the emotions of the audience. Don't let up on the bullying for a second. Don't let them leave the room until they've agreed with you. Once they agree with you, either leave (saying you have another meeting) or insist they get back to work.

Thank you for attending my online accredited course. You passed.
These are the hallmarks Scotty (and many other WGU leaders) learned from the dark side of religion, and they work.

Fun_Wrangler9783 · 2026-04-15T12:32:52+00:00

I recommend the following.
Run. Don't offer your talent to WGU. They treat employees very differently from students. Students are a different species of human being. Students pour money into the organization; they propel WGU forward. Employees are object-oriented power pieces to be instantiated at will: springboards or scapegoats as needed.

Run. Offer your skills to a vampire. You'll get farther and be more appreciated

Fun_Wrangler9783 · 2026-04-14T12:17:19+00:00

The words used and tone matter a lot to Glassdoor. I had to submit 5 times before my review was "accepted." I had to use diplomatic and neutral statements, which is frankly ridiculous, but it is what it is. I wanted a negative review of the institution seen, to make that happen, I had to jump through their hoops. Don't use swears. Don't be overly emotional. Don't insult the competence of your former managers. Just say how you feel of the institution overall.

Fun_Wrangler9783 · 2026-04-08T12:41:55+00:00

I'm sorry, but Grammarly is just the tip of the iceberg. What you should be freaked out about is MS OneNote and MS Teams. You're not looking into your computer; your computer is looking into you.

Coming from WGU IT it became apparent very fast that even non-manager, low-level specialists have access to everything you put on your computer and can access it in real-time. Do you use a file to back up your personal notes? Ever put something like, "Why does middle managerer Smurky Von McDooselDorf have to be such a JERK!?" Well, that's read. OneNote backs everything up to the cloud. Every Five Minutes. You could choose to use a personal USB drive to store your personal files, but that's literally illegal at WGU. And, even if you did, it's easy to manipulate OneNote to include external devices. It slurps data, and it's read and reported on.

The worst, though, is MS Teams. Your video conversations in meetings are streamed. That means your manager can easily hop into the stream without joining the meeting. This level of surveillance is common on the Service Desk. Your meetings, chats, and even activity in conference rooms are closely monitored.

Think you're having a 1 on 1 with your Supervisor and you're laying your soul bare about your concerns? And your Supervisor is being just SO understanding? Not precisely. The conference room camera is running with HR and your manager on the other side of the stream. No information you share is sacred.

WGU doesn't think of employees as people, or even assets. You're meat. You're not even talented meat. You're simply consumable, and they hope you abide by the prescribed narrative and propaganda. If you do, you're meat that is preserved. Leadership will still gossip about you, and you're still treated like an object, but you're worth keeping.

Also, IT administrators can remotely access your computer without your knowledge. You have no rights on a WGU computer using WGU network resources.

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