I hate feeling like an expendable human resource. When I was laid off it was completely without advanced notice, they’re never considerate enough to notify you two weeks in advance (like we are supposed to do).
It’s not like the executive types are known for their empathy. I’ve seen the Chairman of the Board throw full on temper tantrums (and throwing stuff) at his subordinates. They have zero qualms laying us off if it means it increases this quarter’s bottom line.
I live in a country where the company or you need to notify the other 2-6 months in advance. You can only quiet earlier if it is mutual.
I recommend joining a Union so you can also have the safety benefits that we do.
I live in a country (the US) where secondary and general strikes are illegal, so unions don’t have as much power.
In fairness, you usualy get severance that is more than 2 weeks, and you don’t even have to go to work to collect it. That said, in like spain, I think they have to employ you until you find a new job or something.
Lol, severance? Did you get lost and end up in the 50s?
Everyone who gets severance is a real human being, I think you’re referring to so-called “people” like myself that are blue collar. Our severance is “don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out, we’ll make you pay to have it cleaned.”
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1 out of 3 is not most, and this data comes from 2022. I’ve read elsewhere that this number might be around 40-42% now, which is still not most.
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It’s pretty crazy how much they can raise employees salary by getting rid of ceo pay.
If the company had 1000 workers, they could each get a 30k raise.
Yup. Post-COVID, the rich were scared by the newly empowered worker who had just finally begun to understand their worth and power, and have declared war on the working class in retaliation. There’s plenty of evidence for this by now; the pattern is obvious.
So real talk time, what are doing about it?
Why aren’t the remaining workers walking out in protest? Why aren’t sympathetic industries and collectives talking to all of these recently released labor force members and collectively organizing marches and strikes, encouraging workers to refuse to do labor until executives take massive paycuts?
What do we have to do, and why aren’t we doing it?
And if you are somebody out there doing it, what do people like me have to do to get involved?
Why aren’t the remaining workers walking out in protest?
I fear homelessness.
Yes! My thoughts exactly!
During the pandemic when this was all happening, it was a bright spot of optimism that things could finally begin to get better as people realized how much nonsense wasn’t necessary.
But the propaganda machines were in full force pushing fabricated tales of people who “missed the energy of the office”, and everything was about “getting back to normal” instead of making a new, better normal!
Heck I even saw edgy righties on places like iFunny getting all based saying “I can’t believe we’re being exploited like this! Jobs are such a scam.”
It was beautiful.
Where did it go?! Why do we so easily forget??
TODAY: The dam has never been more profitable, now that we’ve fired all the folks with their fingers in the little cracks.
THIS TIME NEXT YEAR: Oh no! The dam has failed! Please help us, we need bailouts!
“If only we had workers that cared! It’s all their fault for not wanting to go the extra mile!”
Didn’t Microsoft just report massive profits after reporting they played off tons of people? Maybe it was in reverse order, but they knew they had massive profits at the same time they were laying off tons of people.
The Microsoft layoffs were a bit different because it was cutting redundant positions after the Actiblizzard merger.
Stuff like middle/upper management mostly I would bet, the company I worked for did a similar lay off after an acquisition not long ago.
Didn’t they cancel a game that’s been in development for over 5 years and lay off the whole team? That’s not exactly redundant positions.
From what I know of recent video game company layoffs, it’s mostly been the cancellation of an in-development game in order to get rid of all the employees working on it.
I tried to search, only thing I found was an unnamed “survival game” blizzard announced in 2022.
It was 1900 people, Microsoft has over 200,000 employees for reference.
They already made those “redundancy” cuts last year. This last round of layoffs was a bunch of software devs and artists of all experience levels, and basically the entire esports divisions for both Overwatch and CoD.
Also keep in mind, this was a record year for Blizzard, profits wise.
Do you have a source for that first part? The deal only went through in October of last year and i can only find info on the most recent slate of firings.
That does suck though for those laid off of course, I hope they can find work they enjoy.
Cool comic but is it necessary that we see corpo and ceo bad posts every day? I didnt know this is boringdystopia. Lets either coordinate strikes or not talk about it at all.
Not talk about it at all? That’s kinda… Stupid. That’s stupid.
Fine… maybe I should have said not talk about it every day?
Respectfully, fuck that. The fascists have been hard at work moving the Overton window to their side. The left should be doing the same
Well absolutely. How do you think this will be achieved?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…
You serious?
For real though. Yes the CEO can get a pay cut, but that is unlikely to save more than a few individuals. The costs of labour are just that high, often the highest of all costs a company has. That’s why laying off staff, although terrible, is the best way to save money for a company.
I agree that CEOs earn waaaaay to much for what they actually do, but cutting that is not the magic solution people imagine it is.
Even the famous pay cut by Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo was accompanied by other cost saving measures in the company, and only because Japanese law demands that layoffs be the last thing a company does.
I agree that CEOs earn waaaaay to much for what they actually do, but
No but required. It sounds like you agree. Some of us are just more mad about it.
It would have been a better post without the “y’all are stupid” laughter at the very start (though it might probably have been downvoted even then, but maybe less, for whatever that is worth). I agree with the business part of what you wrote.
