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This is why downsizing isn't always bad
Well... Let there be some fun in this world.
Apart from this ... middle management is a real bloat nower days. Layers after layers of managers without contact to the actual product. (Now seen in Microsoft, Google and Enshittification)
Oh god, i only once worked in a company large enough where it felt like there were more middle managers than actual workers. The middle manger that was assigned to my team suddenly got sick. Like cancer sick and he basically stopped working within a week. They panicked, because there was no one to replace her. Some guy that i have never seen before told us that we just have to hang in there for 2 weeks or so until they found a replacement. They never found a replacement and i think they just forgot, because nothing has changed about our job, we did the same amount of work and everything. Legitimately the only difference was that they had one less paycheck to pay.
Imagine being so poorly managed that you downsize to cut back on unnecessary spending but literally lose track of an employee. Let's keep the expense of an employee with none of the revenue generation!
I can honestly see that person surviving downsizing rounds.
No manager = nobody to name them on their "pick 10 employees to get rid of" lists.
Sometimes you just have to many people
Yes, concentrated in ineffectual Management. You think the workers are superfluous? lol.
Some are, for sure
"Managers" are just workers in the end.