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[–] 130 points 3 months ago* (10 children)
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  • [–] 80 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I quit my job after they randomly fired a ton of key people at my company. When I quit for my new job my boss was like “but whyyyyy!?”

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago

    Same.

    First they blocked my promotion under a freeze. Then they did layoffs and got rid of people who I respected and had 10 years with the company. It seemed incredibly random.

    I quit not long after that. Internal culture just immediately died, deadlines got stupid, everything turned into infighting for resources. From the people I know who stayed most have quit since then, it got incredibly toxic.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    What sucks is your boss probably had nothing to do with the situation and is suffering just as much under increased workload. Fuck the C suite

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Nah unfortunately he was choosing people too, mostly folks he didn’t like. At one point he stood behind my desk and said, “We really need to make things more efficient here.” Then gave me a long stare with a smirk.

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  • [–] 55 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    The beatings layoffs will continue until morale improves!

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    Zuckerberg offered employees access to permanent desks, a symbolic gesture that unintentionally illustrated how expendable many of them had become.

    Ouch, I worked at places like this around the '09 crunch. Fresh out of college and I was absolutely anchorless in my career, unable to find a human manager who knew my name and would recognize me day over day. This sort of shit is going in the pile of counters to "(millennials/Z/Alpha) just don't work as hard or show loyalty to their jobs anymore".

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It’s so fun to pick up the slack for workloads left from mass layoffs - come on guys.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    I'm stupid. I always forget that that's the point of layoffs. My brain always imagines a lesser workload leading to layoffs. Despite me having exeprienced this once myself. I left that place soon after. And adding insult to injury they did this after Covid (yes, we had to work through it and not from home), telling us that the good times are over now.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    orders employees to have fun again

    Yeah, sure ...... Having fun works that way /s

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    How is this not The Onion?

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Poor Zuck. As a robot, he doesn't understand why his workers are so upset. They still have a job. He cut the inefficiency, placed more work on the remaining employees, and probably tells them to pick up the slack by using AI or something like that....

    He also probably saved billions.

    In his robot brain: "Why aren't they happy for me to succeed?"

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago

    Dance, peasants! Be merry or I shall pull out the red pen again!

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    Specifically, the billionaire promised to host a companywide AI hackathon in July — only to get brutally shut down by workers who were in no mood for such a thing.

    lmao how out of touch can one be. "Hey, cheer up, we'll have fun working 48h straight in July. Did I mention free pizza?"

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    Laugh... why aren't you laughing,

    LAUGH, be happy you still have a work peasants.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    Please clap

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    A friday pizza party oughta do it.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago*

    Your mandated fun time begins…….now

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    Bill Lumbergh: Oh, and next Friday... is Hawaiian shirt day... so, you know, if you want to you can go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans.

    Bill Lumbergh: Ah, ah, I almost forgot... I'm also going to need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too. We, uhhh, lost some people this week and we sorta need to play catch-up. Mmmmmkay? Thaaaaaanks.

    From my favorite comedy ever - Office Space.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Cozy roasting s'mores on the flaming sword hanging over you

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Thank you sir can I have another.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    after all zuckerborg wants to learn about humans by hacking thier brains somehow.

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