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[–] AF_R@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This is also the state of all American corporations right now. Burn every fucking resource and bridge to potential future profit, to make 1/10th of that profit RIGHT NOW.

Shrink operations teams, shrink field teams and stretch them further and further, demand more and more profit every year.

Made a project generate $5k of profit (note: literally still profitable) instead of the projected $15k? You’re a piece of shit that can’t manage a fucking lunch order, ignore how HQ doesn’t even provide engineering support to the field on their own brand new machines that can’t work worth a shit while 50 year old Hollister-Whitneys still chug along just fine.

Service contracts ballooning, terms of service getting worse every year, more ridiculous policies restricting use of subcontractors.

America is dead. The shareholders just haven’t realized it yet.

When the music stops, there will be no recovery. The US will simply degrade, and degrade, and degrade like it’s currently doing with no boom back upwards.

[–] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Same is happening in the uk atm. Private equity companies grinding everything down to dust because the only business methodology now is cut and sell. All that exists is 3 workplace archetypes, the “family” business run by a despot, startup that gets sold and everyone axed, large archaic businesses filled with endless misery where you never actually are allowed to work and are measured on meaningless metrics.

Meanwhile the news just keeps repeating “productivity is down work harder work longer” while nobody working is actually even allowed to work because having a job in a western country is more about babysitting and stroking the egos of management than actually producing anything. Well at least until what you’re supposed to be making fails and said management throws you under the bus while consumers blame you for being lazy and not working in the office enough.