#when the engineering equipment vendor who recognizes you introduces himself to say all the asians got fired its clearly a thing

[theknightlywolfe]

Hmmm ... home loan company - merged with national company and it went out of business in the market crash. Bakery & restaurants - sold and new owners (who thought threatening breaking of knees was a good regular practice) were dragged out of bakery at gun point by FBI and business closed (I believe it was for prostitution and money laundering). Law firm - professional divorce of the partners and business closed. Security company - bought because the wrong person got drunk with an exec at Stanley Black & Decker and they had zero plan beyond the drunken idea and (many) business closed (the sheer quantity of racist slurs SBD corp staff slung at us was shocking, especially considering they never actually saw our pictures or us). MLM - acquired by another MLM who acquired too many at once and refused to listen to the admin and operations staff of acquired businesses (and had massive control issues where the Controller stood outside the bathroom timing me and they deliberately exposed all employees to COVID three times, they produced food stuffs by the by) causing the auditors to fail them and they were delisted and business closed.

Consulting company - let me go for asking for a raise after I did three jobs at once for two years, hired three people to replace me, appears to have lost 50% of their long term employees and all but one hired in 2024 (including two of my replacements). Not dead yet but clearly dying.

So yeah. The home loan business was a good environment as was the law firm so it was sad to see those go, but the rest were toxic as hell. The original MLM was great but I was hired during merger so that didn't last long. So, for the most part, I have had the pleasure of knowing my old jobs died after I stopped holding their shit together. One company that was fine until they decided to trump up reasons to fire me (I don't know why, I was in the second wave of them laying off literally hundreds of people at the beginning of COVID lockdowns but they wanted to pretend they were firing me for cause so I "didn't add to their layoff numbers" or something despite having a glowing annual review less than a month earlier but in talking with people afterwards it looks like they pretty exclusively "fired" people of colour and got rid of POC first, like I heard this from other former employees and vendors) is still going but their stock did tank for a while and still hasn't recovered fully.