• Punkie@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Layoffs are not bad press. Not to the shareholders, the only ones who matter to these types. I used to think “oh, layoffs mean the company isn’t doing so good,” but shareholders see “they reduced cost but lost no customers, thus increasing value of the company should it be sold.”

    • The Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.ca
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      14 days ago

      I hate that that’s the case.

      I’ve been trying to lose weight, so I chopped off my leg just below the knee. I’m several pounds down, and I didn’t have to stop eating even a calorie. It’s amazing.

      The only issue is that now I don’t have a leg and exercise may be difficult….

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          And you’re still alive right? /s. Akin to the people who said Musk’s firing of twitter employees was a genius move because the site was “still running” after all that.

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        14 days ago

        Just sell the body to some other rube and move into a new one that still has both legs. It’s easy. What are you, poor?

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      13 days ago

      This is true, and it’s weird because these same companies used to hire like crazy because only growth mattered. Finally real financial discipline is being applied. The tech company I work for is open about the fact that revenue-per-employee is something like half of FAANG companies and they want that to change.