Wellness Theater: When the Company 'Cares' but the Calendar Says Otherwise

Corporate 'wellness' often arrives as kombucha in the breakroom, a mandatory meditation link, or a step-count leaderboard—gestures dressed as care. In this ten-minute episode Dr Disruptor performs a forensic audit while The Survivor narrates the human cost: what HR metrics celebrate, what managers quietly dodge, and which actions actually reduce burnout. You’ll get a clear translation layer that turns 'we care about wellbeing' into the concrete signals that matter—time-off policy, workload changes, psychological safety—and a practical Survival Kit: three scripts to redirect performative initiatives into real support, one one-sentence ask to put in a calendar invite, and a short, humane refusal to opt out of wellness theater without burning bridges. Entertaining, skeptical, and empathetic, this episode protects sanity, preserves careers, and ends with a link to a printable micro-playbook you can bring to your next skip-level.