We have those virtually a few times a year. There’s always some dickhead talking about how great they did at reducing payroll. I’m like, “Motherfucker, you are talking to the payroll.”
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stoy@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Early last year I had to attend a company conference, it is a yearly thing where mgmt get to stand on a stage and have their peons aplaud them after telling everyone how amazing they are.
That year was particularly insulting.
The CEO brought up a person who he said had inspired him and how great the guy was.
The only thing that guy spoke about was how proud he was to have moved high income jobs to low income countries.
That, in front of a crowd of high income employees in a high income country.
And we were expected to applaud him…
And what is ridiculous was that most people genuinly did seem to enjoy the talk.
Granted, this was a company in the finance sector, and I work in IT, but come one people at least have the decency of looking uncomfortable when someone is happily talking about moving similar jobs to yours to other countries to your face.
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flamekhan@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I’m glad I’m not the only one that’s had to suffer through this kind of crap.
My last company did a yearly circle-jerk session like this where the leadership literally recorded “intro bits” of themselves like you’d see on a jumbo-tron at a sporting event. You know, like a snappy montage shot of them nodding their head or waving or some shit with fire around it.
And then they literally played these clips on a giant screen with intro music while they came out on stage. It was the cringiest, most ego-fueled, shit I’ve ever seen from a company that could barely manage their basic operations.
stoy@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Lol they did that this year here as well, used AI to make them look like superheroes, didn’t work…
KombatWombat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Isn’t that good though? I also have a fairly high income and live in a high income country. Compared to people in poorer countries, we would be the upper class living very charmed lives. In fact, the US poverty line is at $15,000 in annual income, or just over $40 a day. But someone making this much would be richer than 83% of the world. People in less privileged countries should have better access to well-paying jobs to help mitigate the disparity.
Meron35@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That tracks for finance though. Many in that industry are the grind hard in your 20s-30s, retire in Thailand in your 40s type.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Every one of them probably wants a little (saint) Island of their own