I went through a lay off being a manager once. It’s not fun at all. We had the list and the metrics. But we were already pretty small and we really didn’t want to lose anyone on the list except for a couple people.
So we basically gamed financial. Offered anyone that wanted it part time. Fired the few people people that were clearly not interested in working anyways. We did something else that I can’t remember, and we ended up being able to fucking keep everyone. It was amazing.
Not even two months later we had to ramp up for the holidays, so everyone that willingly cut their hours went right back to full time.
Year later the company pulled out of the state. But until that time we kept everyone.
MiltownClowns@lemmy.world 8 months ago
HR is IT for people. Do you think the IT guy cares about all the laptops in the company? No, it’s a resource he manages. Do you think HR cares about all the people in the company. No it’s a resource they manage. Companies try so hard to make HR look like high school guidance counselors instead of the ruthless hatchet men they are.
toasteecup@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It guy here, I care more about the computers and tech than HR cares about people. Fuck HR
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 months ago
I know I feel empathy towards computers that are broken that I can’t help anymore
riskable@programming.dev 8 months ago
When they won’t even boot into a Linux USB drive, make funeral preparations. Pack the dead body in a box and ship it to the hazmat recycling facility in the sky.
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I know right? Old piece of hardware getting retired? It gets new life if I have something for it to do. I’m looking at my Brother HL-5170DN from 2006 that got tossed because the 2nd tray kept jamming. Guess who doesn’t need a 2nd tray and loves this printer?
My first home server was a decommissioned small business server. Was a file server for a long time until the hard drives started to go.
toasteecup@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yuuuuuuuuuup. I always try to repurpose first instead of tossing. Even tossing for tech is a donation first if I can.
Only thing I don’t love is a case I’ve had forever is an old enough ATX design that I can’t easily fit all the new things in it. I’d love to repurpose it for a desktop for her but I don’t think I’m going to love building things in it if I do.
MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yall IT guys are daisys thinking HR wouldn’t stop at owning slaves
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh you the new computer guy? Hey can you help me with the printer?
toasteecup@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Have you turned it off and on again?
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 8 months ago
IT guy here… Uh, no. I resent that you would group us with HR.
At my work I keep advocating to give our underperforming hardware (aka old hardware) a second life by opening up sales for them instead of destroying them (except hard drives of course).
When my laptop was acting up and was kind of crappy… I replace the thermal paste and replaced the old failing hard drive with a new SSD. At laptop is now 14 years old (Intel i5-540).
bane_killgrind@kbin.social 8 months ago
scribbles or notepad furiously
Lobotomize..... Ex..... Co-workers.....
Deluxe0293@infosec.pub 8 months ago
thanks for replacing the thermal paste, I’m POSTing now, but i’m still having trouble with (issue i’ve been told to open a ticket for but am refusing to do). can you fix that please
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Attaboy
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I care about the laptops. I care about them a lot. People return them in a shit state, I clean them up take care of them and then advocate to donate them to schools in the area.
HR are just that, hatchet men.