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This has been going on for decades and it's now the integral part of what "being a manager is" as it's taught at schools. Inside these big companies, the forev

This has been going on for decades and it's now the integral part of what "being a manager is" as it's taught at schools. Inside these big companies, the forever shuffles, hiring and "losing people" like you're in the war it's part of daily life. It's disgusting from a human perspective, trust me I know, but I still hope this way of doing business is not the best and therefor these companies will rot from the inside and give way of better ones. The problem is the time of a big company is on a different scale of the time of an individual.

nine_zeros 3y ago
> Inside these big companies, the forever shuffles, hiring and "losing people" like you're in the war it's part of daily life. Astute and accurate observation. This is one of the reasons I strongly support unions (or a law that enforces a 2 months notice periods on the employer, no probation allowed). Alternatively, interviews longer than 3 hours are no longer allowed so that people may switch jobs asap. If we want flexible capitalism, we need to ensure that labor gets it's fair protections, just like corporations do.
FooBarBizBazz 3y ago
Modern management is to business relationships as pick-up artistry is to romantic relationships. It is manipulative and rapey. Perhaps this is how things have always been at the highest levels of sociopathy -- in the court of Versailles, or in bed with Henry VIII -- but it seems too broadly endemic today. When Gen Z shows up in the workplace with bravado and power-poses, it seems to me like fresh meat acting tough in hopes of surviving jail. The basic stuff of life will be pushed out of societies who continue on this path, and their death-cultures will be able to persist only by using money to lure in (and haze) new generations of cultists, up through the Darien Gap. They will believe that they are rich, special, and superior, and they will convince new aspirants of the same, but their lives will be living sacrifices to Jeff Bezos and their grandchildren will never come into existence -- a subliminal acknowledgement that such lives do not feel worth living. Bai lan.

nine_zeros 3y ago

> Inside these big companies, the forever shuffles, hiring and "losing people" like you're in the war it's part of daily life. Astute and accurate observation. This is one of the reasons I strongly support unions (or a law that enforces a 2 months notice periods on the employer, no probation allowed). Alternatively, interviews longer than 3 hours are no longer allowed so that people may switch jobs asap. If we want flexible capitalism, we need to ensure that labor gets it's fair protections, just like corporations do.

FooBarBizBazz 3y ago

Modern management is to business relationships as pick-up artistry is to romantic relationships. It is manipulative and rapey. Perhaps this is how things have always been at the highest levels of sociopathy -- in the court of Versailles, or in bed with Henry VIII -- but it seems too broadly endemic today. When Gen Z shows up in the workplace with bravado and power-poses, it seems to me like fresh meat acting tough in hopes of surviving jail. The basic stuff of life will be pushed out of societies who continue on this path, and their death-cultures will be able to persist only by using money to lure in (and haze) new generations of cultists, up through the Darien Gap. They will believe that they are rich, special, and superior, and they will convince new aspirants of the same, but their lives will be living sacrifices to Jeff Bezos and their grandchildren will never come into existence -- a subliminal acknowledgement that such lives do not feel worth living. Bai lan.