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The fortune 500 company I work for is scrambling and I think it's hilarious

submitted by Bottled_Tears to whatever 11 monthsNov 22, 2023 11:22:12 ago (+51/-0)     (whatever)

Personal story so if you don't care I'm telling you at the top here now.

So I work at a big tech job. Test technician engineer for microchip wafers. Way underpaid with how cost of living has accelerated and what we do.

We had our ramp up just like all jobs did last year which was totally artificial if you've been a person alive your whole life. It was pretty fucking obvious what was going on politically and economically. Yet, our place hired everyone and anyone, no degrees no skills.

It's been a shit show since. We made 60 billion profit and they're saying we're out of money. How the fuck. HOW THE FUCK. Do you run out of money at 60 billion profit??

These greedy assholes are now reaping what they sow. So now they laid off way too much earlier this year after that 60 billion profit. About 75% of the people I worked with.

Now, they're scrambling and are telling us to work more and people keep going home and calling in sick and they're freaking out. They're moving people from other departments to come work over with us but it has been chaos because they don't know the tools and have been causing massive damage and rework. They used to require training but management is saying no training just do it. It's all so hilarious. I'm just standing back. They've been asking for my help and I'm like nah I'm good, you guys didn't want to give me a raise. I don't need to go above and beyond.

Fortune 500 companies can get bent.


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KQ 0 points 11 months ago

A fallout from the Peter Principle? https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/peter-principle.asp

The tendency for any organization is to keep promoting people until they reach a level of incompetence where they stagnate. When the whole org chart is filled like that...