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[–] Specific_Skunk@lemmy.world 259 points 1 year ago (5 children)

At the tail end of a massive maintenance shutdown (16 hr days for everyone, for 2 weeks) the mill leadership started a site-wide meeting with pictures and stories of their recent trip to Japan. How they went golfing, the great meals they had, their trip to the mountain, etc. They finally wrapped that up and proceeded to tell us that cost of living raises were going to be small that year due to them being “unsure about next year’s profit margins”.

There was a pretty steady wave of resignation letters for the 6 months following that meeting.

[–] canthidium@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jesus, some people just have no awareness whatsoever.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's almost always better for a company to have resignations than layoffs.

So it's kind of always been a thing for them to "encourage" resignations with shit like this, then hire back new people later for drastically lower salaries.

It's what a lot of places are doing now mandating return to the office.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Quiet firings.

[–] johnthedoe@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s utterly diabolical if that was the intention

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The devil himself is afraid of the machinations in the mind of the average human resources manager.

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Not to mention that the company doesn't have to pay unemployment for those that resign but do for those that are laid off.

[–] jcit878@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

i struggle to understand that even from a sociopathic viewpoint here, productivity drop would far exceed any wage savings

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

Or they don't care because they feel they deserve it and we peons don't.

[–] reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Similar thing happened at my first job out of college. It was a year into COVID and we'd been WFH since the spring before this annual June meeting. They had just gotten done announcing that our productivity had exceeded targets, when they added two more announcements:

  1. WFH was ending, and we'd all have to go back to an office that didn't have enough desks for everyone to be there all at once but that was okay because we could all just coordinate amongst ourselves as to who gets to sit where and when and when we had in person all-hands meetings some people could just sit on the floor and work.

  2. Due to a lawsuit filed against an entirely different OU we shouldn't expect much in the way of bonuses this year.

We saw the stress the company was under between the lawsuit and the move, so over the next couple months we helped by cutting about a million dollars a year from their annual salary budget.

[–] jcit878@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

some people could just sit on the floor and work.

i hope you have a workplace safety agency where you are, because damn.....

[–] reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Where I was. I noped tf out of there, and a few weeks after they started enforcing RTO America set it's records for daily new COVID cases and daily deaths. We really did do COVID the way we did Vietnam: it got too expensive so we gave up, declared victory and threw a bunch of people away.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

It's amazing how often I see executives talking about their cool trip, their new plane, or other rich person bullshit during the same presentation where they are telling their employees to suck up some furlough, reneg on bonus, or similar financial hardship.

[–] Nadalofsoccer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Super mega sons of bitches Super mega.....sons of bitches

https://youtu.be/1Tklowb-ioY?si=n1d3CHpBKRL18825

[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

tons of upvotes and comments for this one. definitely a frequent flop by management.