Comment on In 2021, my company laid off 100 people. Later that same year, they hire me and others to replenish this loss

Humana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• 2piradians@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is good insight, thank you.

  It seems to me this is all a stalling tactic for unprofitable companies. Is that correct?

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• riodoro1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hundred thousand real people get anxiety, constant stress, malnutrition, some probably die. All because assholes in suits are playing their game. Rest of society just accepts that “this is how the world works” and “capitalism is not flawless but it’s the best we’ve come up with”. Another year in paradise. Thank god for being alive.

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• Botzo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Jack Welch playbook!

  npr.org/…/short-term-profits-and-long-term-conseq…

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  • Cruxifux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, it was doomed from the get go. Jack Welch is a symptom of a broken system, not the cause of it.

    That being said, fuck that guy.

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  • snek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You know people get all sorts of existential dread thinking about an AI maximizing for paperclip production, but what scares me the most is jerks maximing for money and how they will not stop at anything. And they’re not even AIs yet. Mr. Burns embodied.

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    • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Who do you think had a hand training the computer models on expected performance levels

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• princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The profit expectations the company itself sets also play a big part of it as well I think. When a company says they’ll be really profitable, but it’s only very profitable, everybody loses their shit.

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