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[–] yaroto98@lemmy.org 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)
  • 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
[–] wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 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.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 13 points 2 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.