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Can someone revive Wall Street so it absorbs these kinds of assholes again and we can have only nice people in tech? It was nicer before the likes of Glasner an
by michaelochurch 15y ago
Can someone revive Wall Street so it absorbs these kinds of assholes again and we can have only nice people in tech? It was nicer before the likes of Glasner and Pincus got in this game.
Also, threatening to revoke a title is just idiotic. It provides nothing to the organization. (If you need to fire people, just fire them.) Titles only matter when people are leaving, and so the only effect of reducing a title is to (theoretically) make it harder to leave, but people who want to leave will use their old titles and sue the fucking shit out of their employer (libel, blackballing) if contradicted (and win).
A certain large company (name withheld) had a practice of hiring people in between levels and "downslotting" about 75% of new hires to title the level below what they were promised in hiring. It didn't save any money but it flew a fucking plane into morale. That company abolished the slotting idiocy, but far too late, and it's probably a contributor to the cultural mediocrity and general decline of that company over the past 3-4 years.