• yaroto98@lemmy.org
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    7 days ago
    • Tech company gets acquired by massive company for a ridiculous sum of money
    • Site never really generated much revenue
    • Parent company demands cuts
    • lays off workers, ahem sorry, removes redundant positions
    • re-org
    • gets rid of physical assets by moving to the cloud claiming savings despite it almost always being more expensive and worse than running your own.
    • lay off more employees claiming move to the cloud behind schedule and over budget
    • blame the economy
    • probably something with AI
    • hire a more ‘global workforce’
    • re-org
    • RTO mandate to make the highest paid employees leave after they trained their replacements overseas
    • voluntary severance package
    • another round of layoffs
    • re-org
    • quarterly report showing highest profits in company history
    • worst compensation bumps in company history
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      7 days ago

      My company used to staff in-house help desk, about 90% of which worked remotely full-time. They were outsourced, and a few months later, covid hit. Guess who didn’t have a functioning help desk (due to the contractor using crowded call centers) during a time when we were scrambling to get as many people as possible working remotely? I know hindsight is 20/20, but that was a pretty big facepalm.

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      6 days ago

      You forgot profit sharing and bonuses for the C-suite only, then it’s carved up and the pension plan is raped to death.