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> I'm glad to see people recognizing the emperor has no clothes. The COVID shutdowns exposed the lack of loyalty (possibly humanity too) on the side of employe
by sangnoir 4y ago
> I'm glad to see people recognizing the emperor has no clothes.
The COVID shutdowns exposed the lack of loyalty (possibly humanity too) on the side of employers. Additionally, most employees have internalized that it's sometimes better to be unemployed while up-skilling than to maximize raw employment time.
This is blowback for companies treating employees as disposable, but acting surprised when employees catch on and start to see such jobs as disposable too.
- merpnderp 4y agoThere were a lot of companies that did everything they could to keep people employed. My company lost a lot of money keeping us on.
- cudgy 4y agoPerhaps your employer received money from the pandemic “corporate giveaway” bills that were passed? Or perhaps they are a rare breed that choose to willingly lose money? Either way I see no evidence that there are “a lot of companies that did everything they could to keep people employed” when it meant them losing money or not benefiting from corporate government welfare to keep people employed.
- rvba 4y agoRecruitment also costs a lot. There is the visible fee when you use headhunters or even ads. Bur there is the not visible cost of internal effort (that could be used elsehwere) and lower efficiency before everyone gets onboarded.
- pc86 4y agoAnd mine (at the time) cut everyone's pay by nearly 30% with almost no notice, then acted like they were doing us all a solid by putting everyone back to where they were almost a year later without making us all do performance reviews first. In my experience there are more employers like mine than yours in the world.