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• vacri 10y ago
  One company I worked at made medical equipment and had these quarterly-to-half-yearly all-hands. The CEO, famous for fleecing his own company would invariably tell us to 'tighten our belts'. I almost started running a pool as to how far through the meeting that phrase would appear. One 'funny' thing about all-hands was the Q&A section - no-one ever asked anything (maybe the occasional softball) apart from us support guys. "Where are the extra support staff you promised?". One all-hands I was away off-site with the other support tech, and it threw the cadence of the all-hands off, apparently, as "and this is about the time the support guys complain..." (not actually said, but what everyone was expecting). The company is still somehow running, but it's always been tight on money. After I left I heard the tale from a colleague still there, about how they had orders from customers, finished stock to fill those orders, and they couldn't ship... because they were on credit hold with the cardboard shipping box suppliers for non-payment...