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    I’m sure we are all confused as to why morale has been so low these last few weeks,” Peter said, although everyone else seems to agree that the layoffs are to blame. “It’s about time we got to the bottom of this mystery. I’ve conducted a thorough search and determined that remote work is to blame.

    Are you spying at the company I work for?

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    I’m still slightly peeved about an old CEO that was all about “making data driven decisions” but when people presented data he didn’t like he’d ignore it.

    “Hey a couple studies are showing that 4 day work weeks are a net positive, do you-”

    "We’re not doing that "

    “But look at this data.”

    " Next question."

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        Bad idea. In order to get a computer to do anything useful, you must first be honest about what outcome you want. This means saying the quiet part out loud, resulting an an AI prompt something like:

        Develop a business plan optimizing for shareholder value, maximizing bonus payout for top leadership, leveraging all company assets, while avoiding lawsuits that will end the company. Legal problems are okay provided they do not interfere with increasing company value. Assume full workforce productivity and minimal depreciation on assets.

        What follows is a cutthroat business plan that will make a killing on Wall St. in the short run, and make everyone in said business absolutely miserable. All remaining ethics that are left at the C-level get thrown right in the trash. Also: this kills the environment.

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          Or, we could just implement the algorithms that are already available, and not tell it to maximize shareholder value, but instead company productivity, and you’ll get the most efficient companies possible.

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        There was an article back in 2011 that predicted that middle and upper management were already completely replaceable using management algorithms. They want the tech to replace the rest of us before they implement that level of automation.

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        I have no mouth and I must scream. We’re already there with the stock market, we just have useless ceo’s.

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      At a “town hall”, many months ago …

      VP: We would like to hear feedback from all of you.

      Me: And what would be the best way we can provide you with that feedback?

      VP: …

      VP: (thinking - obviously didn’t have an answer for this)

      VP: …

      VP: just email me.

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    My company had a feedback meeting (wasn’t planned, but the staff are just that fed up), and it was spicy. We’ve not received pay reviews, management never let us give them feedback, people feel demotivated and unheard.

    The CEO’s solution? A new ‘cameras always on’ policy. SMH

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      Fuck. I haven’t seen my boss on camera since my interview 6 months ago. I came from a ‘camera’ post and have since been molded into a proper introvert.

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        It’s all about balance. I like a little interaction with my colleagues, but I also like to be able to go faceless when I’m just not feeling it.

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    “We need more ‘water cooler conversations’.”

    The only “work” getting talked about around the water cooler is how much we hate working here and how we’re going to quit and get a job someplace that sucks less.

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    Uh, this is basically real news though. Even just this week my company asked why people aren’t taking risks and submitting “side projects” and what they don’t want to hear is “because four rounds of layoffs in a year has absolutely crushed anyone’s willingness to do so?”

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      sure I am gonna devote whatever little time left to myself to do side projects for you so that you increase your chances of stumbling upon a new innovation that will make you even more rich. solid idea.

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    I feel like the CEO should be required to resign if they let a company get to the point where multiple rounds of layoffs are required. They need to own the failure of their decisions.

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      Sadly, at the board level, layoffs aren’t seen as a failure. They are preferred.

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        Then the news should report it as if the company is doing bad. That will make the shareholders freak out.

        “Company X financially looking bad, tries to compensate by laying off essential workers.”

        "Another round of layoffs at Company X, are they on a brink of bankruptcy?

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        Oh I’m well aware. My former company just sold my department to an outsource company at the same time they laid off. We are all just numbers.

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      I feel like that is the norm nowadays. Like overbooking on flights, although it is so unethical, they do it because they can get away with it.

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    Force you to move across the country just so they can fire you after over hiring

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      I’d like to think if I moved across the country to keep a job like that, that’d I’d demand something like a 2+ year contract with an exorbitantly high severance package pre-negotiated.

      If it’s that or get fired, may as well try, not worth uprooting for otherwise

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        Probably not the thing everyone thought about before the layoffs became a thing. Also probably not what a company is going to agree to, but that may even be a good thing because good riddance

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        I’m being offered a position right now, and I just don’t think they get this part of it. I’m not moving house 4000mi into an at-will state just to get turfed in month 9.

        Yeah, so no. I love my current spot wayyyyy more.

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    We’re a family and being forced together in an office is part of our DNA, our corporate culture of control. Because we work better together when we force you back from of a situation we previously told you was going to be the “new normal”, but since we collectively decided we stopped caring anymore we’re going to pretend we never said that.

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    No it isn’t, commentary about it to mask the layoffs meant to temporarily juice stock prices and discipline labor at the expense of human beings is ruining “company culture” - or at least it would if that was actually a thing.