• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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      Yep. Back to the office means soft layoff, always. After 20 years in corporate America I learned firsthand that Execs truly are dickbags with only rare exceptions.

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      I don’t understand that practice, is it a consolation prize for having to fire people? A reward for not getting laid off?

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        Bonus are based on how much profit your division has made. By firing people you lower expenses which increases the profit percentage even though the income in the same.

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          Except firing the people that actually generate profit is short-sighted and stupid. Firing a few useless c-suite nob-ends makes much more sense.

          Then again, who in their right mind would want to work for ubisoft these days anyway?

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            Except during the people that actually generate profit is short-sighted and stupid. Firing a few useless c-suite nob-ends makes much more sense.

            But manglement doesn’t want to make sense. They just want to show they are furthering the companies goal.

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        Investors have very big brains and are never wrong, so when a company drops staff they say it’s good to see the company losing dead weight.

        Us stupid small-brained normies see a company struggling to have an original idea shaving staff to stay afloat and say “that doesn’t look good”.

        Then the big-brain investor loses money and posts on social media about how you can’t win them all. The joke is that us normies also lost money; the investor didnt lose their money, they lost yours, because they were managing your pension fund.