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>By the sounds of this they just wanted to be as needlessly cruel as possible to strike fear into those left behind to work even harder. It's as though people
by NovemberWhiskey 4y ago
>By the sounds of this they just wanted to be as needlessly cruel as possible to strike fear into those left behind to work even harder.
It's as though people think that managers go behind closed doors and it's suddenly like the Death Star conference room.
- emodendroket 4y agoYou think it's implausible that some top-level brass think their employees have gotten a little bit too restive for their liking? Sometimes they're even not too circumspect to say it: https://www.wsj.com/articles/layoffs-labor-market-bosses-power-workplace-11675347655 https://www.wsj.com/articles/layoffs-labor-market-bosses-pow... > “This whole concept of working from anywhere went too far,” Mr. Ulbrich said. “I’m all into flexibility and all supportive that work and life has to find a flexible kind of partnership…but that doesn’t translate into, ‘Mondays and Fridays, I always work from home.’ ” > He added: “I think the recent trends, the layoffs, will help to bring a little bit of balance into that.” And frankly, people have come up with a lot more cruel things to do to other human beings than just dismissing them in a deliberately humiliating way.