I'm sad that was necessary but happy your group was successful with it. I am fortunate in that the managers I work under are of the mindset, "Your an adult. If work is getting done to quality/schedule requirements and people can get a hold of you when needed, then I don't care how you schedule your time."

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's not about managers, there are nice ones for sure. I like my direct manager a lot. It's about the capitalist on top, who, when the times get rough, still tries to extract the most profit rather than actually reinvest some of the capital back into the business and keep people employed. This is unavoidable under capitalism.

[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I accept that is the nature of the beast for a publicly traded company. But I have not heard stories about my company playing stupid games like that. Probably because they are big enough that it would create legal risk and they know they will probably want to rehire some of the people getting layed off some time in the future.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

This more often happen in companies owned by private equity. They don't have to report anything to anybody or worry about shareholder revolts.