If Sundar can take Google and destroy it like this, can we find when he was on the apprentice or was that all deleted scenes?
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2024
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It's likely that their bonuses are based on share price and the layoffs pumped them.
Same for every company following their playbook, including mine.
Don’t work for evil
We have so many laid off engineers that if they were to band together to form a company with all the knowledge they have, I’m sure they’ll be better than the company they worked for.
That's what all companies do. It's always a surprise, and it's done that way in order to control the situation. That's why when you quit, it should also be a surprise. Fuck them.
Why do the employees bother asking him questions that they already know the answer to in the pit of their stomachs?
I hate to think so many in the field of tech could be so naive of the world around them.
could so naive
Did you a word?
That I did, lol. Corrected.
They aren't. When the answers are unsatisfying, as we know they will be, questions like this can be a precursor to convincing your coworkers to unionize.
The same reason lawyers ask questions they know the answers to.
I’ve been working in tech for close to thirty years now mostly with larger tech and financial companies. For my parent’s and grandparent’s generation, you could reasonably expect lifetime employment at the same company. Work well and you’ll be treated well.
This started to change when I began working in the 90s and especially after the 2001 and 2008 recessions. Since then, it’s gotten much worse.
Companies don’t want to treat all employees well anymore, just their top talent that they want to retain. Who cares what the rest think because they’re transient anyway and won’t be around for more than a few years. Build around your top people and view the others as interchangeable parts.
Don’t bother investing in the rest of your employees. Just hire when needed, fire those you don’t like, who aren’t a good fit, and who are too old. Firing is one of their top tools if they want a quick cost reduction to boost their stock price.
Maintaining the upper hand of the employee/employer power dynamic is much more desirable than properly treating the people who work for you. If the employees don’t like it, they know where the door is. They’re replaceable anyway. That’s why employees have lost the RTO battles.
As an older worker, I despise how cutthroat the corporate world is now. I feel like I’m about to be tossed out with the trash.
This is interesting because firings I've been involved with nearly always cut the important staff first because they make the most. The more valuable, the more you get paid and therefore the more you save when they go.
cut the important staff first
Tell us your management are idiots without using those words.
The "dead sea effect" is detailed as a thing to avoid; your management seems to want to wade in it.
I am, but also, this is at multiple reputable places so it's a trend more than just one shitty business. It could also just be companies are less likely to let people stay with them in good faith and it might be about new blood coming in to organise
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but what’s stopping tech workers still at Google from unionizing?
Well everyone is being told they are special and top talent until they aren't. Then it's to late since there is a stigma attached and others don't want their shadow cast in them.
I work in tech as well, and I think the biggest reason is workplace mobility. Working at Google famously makes it easy go get a new job.
When work has sucked for me, I went job hunting not trying to fix a broken system
Some situations look more favourable in the rearview, yes.
I worked at a big company, after 16 years they let me and many of my coworkers go. I ended up at a late stage start up. They were starting to become more "corporate". Now I work at an early stage start up. They actually care. I am not sure I will ever take a job with a company that is publicly traded again.
My plan, if I leave the massive corporate entity I'm currently at is to find work at a place with 2 digit employee numbers.
Trying to get the right things done at a huge company makes government burocracy look like a model of efficiency.
Internally they're all like, "why can't we work like a startup?"...partially because of you, Mr. Senior VP of golden parachutes.
Sundar is not a good CEO
No joke, I think he should be tried for crimes against humanity for how he's lead the merciless sodomizing of of our access to actual information.
If found guilty then he should have a chance to walk out unscathed. Five obscure questions. One computer. One elaborate limb removal device.
For every obscure piece of information he can actually find the answer to within the first 100 pages of results (don't you wish the other pages were real now, you fucking sack of shit?) He loses a limb. If he can't find the info at least once, he gets to watch his limbs get cut off one before it's off with his head and into the nearest, largest sack pile of actual shit we can forget his worthless body parts in.
It would be on youtube and the special would be like 8 hours long. The ad revenue and their utter lack of a sould would keep the executives engaged enough to not repeat his mistakes.
But he gave everyone a few extra one-time days off!
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