Absolutely infuriating. As a diabetic a high-protein diet is just about the best thing for me. I'd quit on the spot.
GL!!
I mean, I won't hold it against any individual to be into Deepak Chopra, I won't even hold it against a company of 100 people to invite Deepak Chopra provided the employees are aware that the company has a New Age vibe, a subtle scent of potpourri that just never goes away. 5000+ people though? Holy crap.
If you’re a devout believer in religion A and your employer forces you - unknown to you at the time you were hired - to attend religious ceremonies of religion B as a condition of your continued employment - that is surely massively illegal
I prefer keto diets too, but I think this would piss me off way more. I have really bad OCD. I wash my hands a lot; coworkers notice. I'm already self conscious about it. I can go camping but it takes a lot of mental prep (and I typically throw everything in the wash or away when I get home).
If a company forced me to camp like that .. da fuck?!
Not to mention everything else about that sounds pretty insane too.
People who have the audacity to do big things are frequently not reasonable people at all, and many times can be quite wacky. Sometimes this turns out well, like with Isaac Newton and Nikola Tesla. Other times this turns out very badly, like with Josef Stalin or Adolf Hitler.
Have you considered leaking to like techcrunch or something? Hell even a major paper would probably take it up.
https://theoutline.com/post/6133/the-keto-diet-is-a-recipe-f...
The rest of what you describe sounds like a nightmare though.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2716748/
Your medical professionals are misinformed. A celebrity chef promoting a diet, quack as they may be, doesn't mean it's without merit.
FWIW I've both lost weight and improved my T1 diabetes control through a paleo/keto style diet I've been following for the past four years. My endocrinologist has never had anything negative to say about my diet or lifestyle.
Because of the vegetarianism thing, everyone was forced to eat WeWork-provided food, sans meat (though fish is okay!). This totally broke my ketogenic diet, which made me quite mad. See other comments about this being a form of group control.
For the first day and a half, we were subjected to a number of corporate "talks" which largely revolved around the cult of personalities of Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey. Adam Neumann particularly styles himself a televangelis or Jesus-wannabe and walks out into the audience, asking people about their deepest fears, delivering some ersatz corprorate sermon on the mount. There is no "me", only "we".
See also the time when Rebecca Neumann commands the gathered WeWorkers to hold hands, close their eyes, and pray.
Or the time that Deepak Chopra comes out and shows a disturbing video about childbirth (people were like, "is this an anti-abortion video?) and talks about how evolution and child development are intimately related, and how we should take our shoes off to let the ions flow, and leads a meditation session.
A fish rots from the head down, and this is one crazy fish.