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awkward-teabag · 7 months ago

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I hate the idea that a company should always be in growth mode and that mass layoffs, sorry, restructuring is something that should happen at set intervals. Steady profits are still profits and people will be less inclined to work or get invested in their work if they have to keep an emergency backup job in the back pocket no matter how good their work is.

To say nothing about how it limits social bonding 'cause there's only so many times you can go through seeing friends lose their job and have survivor's guilt or vice versa, or how since it's a known occurrence it means you know you're competing directly with friends.

Of course that's the point, along with the business idea that employment should follow the Pareto Principle even though it's pop science, demonstrably false, and an intentional misunderstanding of what was really an observation of coincidences.

And of course that means you're constantly shedding people who have knowledge, skills, and training to "streamline" things or to "increase production speed" when overworking already overworked employees and throwing greenhorns into it does the exact opposite.

It's not about making the company better, it's about making unionizing harder, paying people less, making it seem like the company is doing something, and giving the execs and shareholders more money.

While overworking those who kept their jobs.

#and how many times has a company bragged about how much money it made #only to turn around and fire a bunch of workers (but never execs)?#maybe even given themselves massive congratulatory bonuses to celebrate their 'hard work'#which was actually the work of dozens/hundreds of others #and iirc the pareto principle observation varied wildly from something like 5% to 50%#but it got turned into 80-20 for round numbers and because who cares about nuance #just sell it as 20% of your employees are slacking no matter what so you should fire 20% regularly #and of course there's the little thing known as fiduciary responsibility that's been warped by capitalism #so execs prioritize shareholders above all else #and of course the same companies often complain how no one wants to work anymore #or laments how people right out of college don't have a decade plus of experience with the company's proprietary system(s)#and sometimes they try to sneak no compete clauses into employment contracts so if someone is fired #they may have to stay out of the industry they have experience/training/degrees/interest in #no that such clauses can be enforced for something like this but it's a threat and warning to further cow workers #and a company bragging about making billions in profit and has a whole legal department #can easily afford the time and legal fees compared to someone who just lost their job even if they know they're going to lose #corporations literally have money earmarked in their budget for fines and settlements #which should tell you all you need to know about how much they care about laws #it's not even an emergency 'we fucked up' fund #it's 'this is the cost of business because it's cheaper to pay the fine and do what we want' fund

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