Glad my layoff could help you out!
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2024
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Where do folks think that money comes from if not layoffs?
Remember, he's the real victim here, he had to sign off on all those layoffs, he's going to have to live with that decision...
...in one of his multiple mansions.
He gets paid that much because he's one of the few people on earth who can make those kind of tough choices. The poor guy must be weeping into his caviar.
Our CEO announced layoffs recently and then even more recently sent a follow up email complaining about how people were complaining about it and saying how hard it has been for the executive team. We're a small company and I get the pain they are feeling due to financial constraints but at the end of the day we work for money and they are taking home 3-4x as much as anyone else each month while making all the decisions about how money is spent. It's hard not to become resentful.
Sorry to hear that, typical hierarchical power structure.
We need more worker protections, and more workplace democracy.
3-4x is in the fair region still. Do you think Microsoft employees make 20-30 millions each? (3-4x less than the CEO)
No but not everyone works at these large corporations and the issues with how work works remain
I remember whn he first came on the scene, everyone was talking about what a genius Satya was-- for copying AWS's business model. Tnen he stated women should not ask for raises in 2014. This is what you get when you put someone in charge who was raised and educated inside India.
This is not India and we dont want it to become like India.
This is what you get when you put someone in charge who was raised and educated inside India. This is not India and we dont want it to become like India.
I think we can acknowledge this man's poor behavior and systemic misogyny in India without painting over a billion people as unqualified to lead or as dangerous to our country's cultural character. I have several of friends raised and educated in India, now living in the US, who are quite feminist--almost certainly more so than the average American citizen, especially given near half of Americans will vote for a sexual predator for the third presidential election in a row.
What you dont get is that people aculturized in this stuff see their abuses as good and righteous. Just like 80 years ago in the US husbands thought it was just fine to spank their wives if they werent keeping the household the way they wanted it, and thought of it as teaching them proper upbringing. I dont want anyone raised in a regressive culture in charge. The ideas of an exeutive leader filter down through the org they lead a lot mroe than you'd guess they would.
more like because of the layoffs
I got a 63 cent raise this year too!
while trying to buy a license they claimed i needed a subscription to 365 garbage first. hung up and installed linux.
Fire the CEO and hire back the best with pay rises, if they're willing. JC, MS, get a grip on yourselves.
"despite"
"earn"
Yeah but I bet he met a KPI
And I bet he does less work in a day than every single one of the people who were laid off to fund his pay
Maybe they can come up with some technology that would someday take the position of CEO. Think of the savings...
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Because of the devastating year for layoffs.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
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Every time a big company lays people off I always try to remember that it's not because they aren't making enough money as a company. It's because the "important" people want more money.
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell”
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