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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell is making everyone return to office, too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s about depressing wages more than anything. Companies know WFH works just as well. But they also know people like it quite a bit. They have it away for free, by making in office default they can negotiate lower wages for people who really want to work from home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy birthday, peon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know several (small) companies that give you 8 hours PTO on your birthday. You can use it immediately or save it for later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you gotta go down and join that union⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I once worked in a division of ~3500 employees, every year the division produced two profit forecasts one called “pessimistic” and another called “optimistic”. My first year the division made $335 million MORE than the optimistic forecast so the division CEO approved every employee a $335 bonus.

  The next year it happened again but only $285 minion, so $285 bonuses that year.

  Both times I scoffed and quietly pointed out to the delighted Boomers that it was less than one third of a percent of the total money.

  The next year apparently the corporate office found out, fired said CEO and quashed the bonuses forever. Apparently the distribution of the crumbs was more than they could handle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ant smell⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a friend who can smell cockroaches no joke. We always take her restaurant suggestions very seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They lied to us⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Portuguese word for turkey 🦃 is Peru

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A story from back when I worked in HR. Finance handed HR a list of teams to reduce. HR saw who had lowest performance metrics or was most recently hired. Then HR emailed the managers and said, ‘we want you to follow around Angela and Brian today, the first mistake they make, write it up and terminate them’. The company had laid off too many people and several states it operated in warned the company they would seek payment if too many more ex-employees filed for unemployment insurance.

  Most employees skewed right politically and wouldn’t dream of fighting the company for their rightfully die unemployment benefits since they legitimately thought it was their fault, and many thought UI was socialism anyway.

  After witnessing this I immediately began switching careers.

  Remember HR is not there to protect the employees, it’s there to protect the company from employee related lawsuits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Changes in Work pattern by Capitalism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Reddit comments 🤦🏽‍♂️ people can’t seem to understand he is talking about labor not all labor a person does in their lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 2021, my company laid off 100 people. Later that same year, they hire me and others to replenish this loss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily. I witnessed this firsthand at a company that was actually VERY profitable, just not as profitable as Wall Street had expected.

  When a company underperforms, the first place C-suite looks to cut is headcount.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 2021, my company laid off 100 people. Later that same year, they hire me and others to replenish this loss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I use to work in HR for a medium sized, publicly traded company. Here’s how it works:

  Wall Street banks set quarterly profit targets for companies. If the companies hit the target, stock goes up, if they don’t it goes down.

  If stock goes down too much, C-suite is usually fired. This is what motivates them.

  There is usually a few weeks between when the company calculates it’s quarterly numbers and when they are legally obligated to report them.

  If the profits aren’t up to the Wall Street calculation, the C-suite panics and 95% of the time will go on a firing spree so when the numbers do become public they can claim they analyzed the company and magically found it was overstaffed, and already took care of the “problem”. This is an attempt to save their own jobs.

  In truth they did the firings in such a hurry nothing was seriously looked at, no significant problems were discovered, and the employees let go were closer to random than carefully selected based on performance and need. This happens every quarter all across America.