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Severance may come with it's own difficulties: state unemployment payments, contractual obligations, bureaucratic overhead, manager pushback. I think leadershi

by t-3 4y ago

Severance may come with it's own difficulties: state unemployment payments, contractual obligations, bureaucratic overhead, manager pushback. I think leadership-oriented types tend to esteem headcount the way nerds esteem CPU core count and frequency - up is fine, down is not acceptable unless you're absolutely forced. Neither is a really rational position, but they overall tend not to be too detrimental so there's no widespread change.

candiodari 4y ago
I've been railroaded into manager hiring, at a huge company everyone knows, and so I've gone over the manager hiring documentation. Assuming you don't fuck up the interview, the level you get hired at as a manager ... is directly related to the number of reports you claimed to have had at your previous position (there is some verification, but nothing "real"). It's not the only factor, but it's by far the most important. Managers fight over headcount because it directly affects their personal ... everything. Career, money, power, ... all are dependent on headcount ("number of reports").
titanomachy 4y ago
If you have 100 useless employees and you offer them each $50k to leave of their own volition, you will reduce the number of bad employees and save money. You won't have any legal obligations because they're leaving on their own. This is how it works at various big, powerful tech companies (although the severance offer often comes with a "performance improvement plan" as the alternative, a bit of a carrot/stick situation which usually gets people out the door pretty quick).
llampx 4y ago
Where your comparison falls apart is that every nerd knows that you can't run all cores at 100% all the time, that's just wasteful.. thus underclocking and shutting off cores when not in use is part of every modern processor.

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Severance may come with it's own difficulties: state unemployment payments, contractual obligations, bureaucratic overhead, manager pushback. I think leadershi

by t-3 4y ago

candiodari 4y ago
I've been railroaded into manager hiring, at a huge company everyone knows, and so I've gone over the manager hiring documentation. Assuming you don't fuck up the interview, the level you get hired at as a manager ... is directly related to the number of reports you claimed to have had at your previous position (there is some verification, but nothing "real"). It's not the only factor, but it's by far the most important. Managers fight over headcount because it directly affects their personal ... everything. Career, money, power, ... all are dependent on headcount ("number of reports").
titanomachy 4y ago
If you have 100 useless employees and you offer them each $50k to leave of their own volition, you will reduce the number of bad employees and save money. You won't have any legal obligations because they're leaving on their own. This is how it works at various big, powerful tech companies (although the severance offer often comes with a "performance improvement plan" as the alternative, a bit of a carrot/stick situation which usually gets people out the door pretty quick).
llampx 4y ago
Where your comparison falls apart is that every nerd knows that you can't run all cores at 100% all the time, that's just wasteful.. thus underclocking and shutting off cores when not in use is part of every modern processor.