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.

protist@retrofed.com · 12 pts · 70d (3 replies)

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

saltnotsugar@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 70d (2 replies)

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.

protist@retrofed.com · 8 pts · 70d

Sucks. I've been involved in situations where managers are literally in tears because they're being forced to lay off people on their teams. Your guy sounds like a psychopath

Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 70d

Damn you made the whole situation efficient as fuck lol

CapnClenchJaw@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 70d (4 replies)

The ~~beatings~~ layoffs will continue until morale improves!

mp3@lemmy.ca · 41 pts · 70d (2 replies)

SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 68d

I don't know why my brain is reading this as Nicholas Cage

Sineljora@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 70d

Copilot: A significant amount of distressed phone calls about lost family members were recorded coming from this school in the West Bank. What action would you like to take?

Asha: bomb or BOMB?

https://nogamesforgenocide.com/

arandomthought@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 70d

That was my exact first thought when I read that headline.

Vanth@reddthat.com · 38 pts · 70d

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".

usernametbd@lemmy.zip · 33 pts · 70d (2 replies)

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

NM_Gringo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 70d

Are you not entertained?

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 69d

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.

redlemace@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 70d (1 reply)

orders employees to have fun again

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

db2@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 70d

It might be something someone would think when they have no basis for understanding any basic human behaviors.

TomMasz@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 70d (2 replies)

How is this not The Onion?

ferrule@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 70d

We live in the timeline where The Onion is real.

Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 70d

"Looks back at the community"

Goddamit.

BeUnique@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 70d (2 replies)

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?"

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 70d

"hello fellow humans, i require you organic units to have "fun" so that i can master that part of humanity"-zuckerborg.

imdoneinteracting@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 70d

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IratePirate@feddit.org · 17 pts · 70d

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

eager_eagle@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 70d

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?"

Telodzrum@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 70d

Please clap

mecen@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 70d

Laugh... why aren't you laughing,

LAUGH, be happy you still have a work peasants.

wahooyeeha@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 70d

A friday pizza party oughta do it.

fox2263@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 70d

Your mandated fun time begins…….now

1984@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 70d

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.

Flower@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 70d

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

MyOpinion@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 70d

Thank you sir can I have another.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 70d

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