Force you to move across the country just so they can fire you after over hiring
Nah so they can avoid calling it a layoff
I’d like to think if I moved across the country to keep a job like that, that’d I’d demand something like a 2+ year contract with an exorbitantly high severance package pre-negotiated.
If it’s that or get fired, may as well try, not worth uprooting for otherwise
I’m being offered a position right now, and I just don’t think they get this part of it. I’m not moving house 4000mi into an at-will state just to get turfed in month 9.
Yeah, so no. I love my current spot wayyyyy more.
Probably not the thing everyone thought about before the layoffs became a thing. Also probably not what a company is going to agree to, but that may even be a good thing because good riddance
Uh, this is basically real news though. Even just this week my company asked why people aren’t taking risks and submitting “side projects” and what they don’t want to hear is “because four rounds of layoffs in a year has absolutely crushed anyone’s willingness to do so?”
sure I am gonna devote whatever little time left to myself to do side projects for you so that you increase your chances of stumbling upon a new innovation that will make you even more rich. solid idea.
And if that project fails, you’re fired.
And if that project succeeds, it is much harder for the corporation to take ownership of it.
The tears are made by cutting onions.
The company culture is to fire people regularly.
It is not so fun when they are always remote.
Almost ate the whole onion on this one.
“The layoffs will continue until morale improves”
You are going to have fun, whether you like it or not.
“I’m sure we are all confused as to why morale has been so low these last few weeks,” Peter said, although everyone else seems to agree that the layoffs are to blame. “It’s about time we got to the bottom of this mystery. I’ve conducted a thorough search and determined that remote work is to blame.”
Are you spying at the company I work for?
We’ve taken away many things you liked and given you absolutely nothing. Why aren’t you happy?
Wait, are we coworkers?
Fucking anus.
Don’t insult buttseks by comparing it to this turd of a CEO.
Maybe repeated rounds of layoffs destroying company morale is what’s hurting your company culture. Bunch of egomaniacs in charge…
“We need more ‘water cooler conversations’.”
The only “work” getting talked about around the water cooler is how much we hate working here and how we’re going to quit and get a job someplace that sucks less.
Or how latoffs are affecting morale and workload.
“fitting into the company culture” = how well you can brown nose your boss and how much overtime you’re prepared to put in.
I know it’s satire, but I have an adverse reaction to that phrase
My company had a feedback meeting (wasn’t planned, but the staff are just that fed up), and it was spicy. We’ve not received pay reviews, management never let us give them feedback, people feel demotivated and unheard.
The CEO’s solution? A new ‘cameras always on’ policy. SMH
Whipping will continue until morale improves
Fuck. I haven’t seen my boss on camera since my interview 6 months ago. I came from a ‘camera’ post and have since been molded into a proper introvert.
It’s all about balance. I like a little interaction with my colleagues, but I also like to be able to go faceless when I’m just not feeling it.
I feel like the CEO should be required to resign if they let a company get to the point where multiple rounds of layoffs are required. They need to own the failure of their decisions.
I feel like that is the norm nowadays. Like overbooking on flights, although it is so unethical, they do it because they can get away with it.
Sadly, at the board level, layoffs aren’t seen as a failure. They are preferred.
Oh I’m well aware. My former company just sold my department to an outsource company at the same time they laid off. We are all just numbers.
Then the news should report it as if the company is doing bad. That will make the shareholders freak out.
“Company X financially looking bad, tries to compensate by laying off essential workers.”
"Another round of layoffs at Company X, are they on a brink of bankruptcy?
No it isn’t, commentary about it to mask the layoffs meant to temporarily juice stock prices and discipline labor at the expense of human beings is ruining “company culture” - or at least it would if that was actually a thing.
We’re a family and being forced together in an office is part of our DNA, our corporate culture of control. Because we work better together when we force you back from of a situation we previously told you was going to be the “new normal”, but since we collectively decided we stopped caring anymore we’re going to pretend we never said that.
