The endless cycle of hiring spree followed by layoff lottery (wherein it isn't really a process of ditching deadwood, but mostly about settling scores, protecting the good ol' boys, and ditching the newbies who haven't quite learned how to play the right games). I've seen it go on for years here.
Next up, let's talk about how we went from industry standard time accounting to outright spyware on the laptops. Let's talk about how they preach long and loud about work-life balance but if you work-from-home, you're practically marked as layoff bait.
Oh the uppers cut their salaries? Bet they didn't cut their bonuses, stocks options, their quiet golden parachutes which are slowly vesting in the background... it's easy for a multi-millionaire to give up his walking-around money for show, kiddo.
Oh, the essential workers got a salary bump? Sure, a small group of people did - and I bet FISV will hire like mad to bolster that group of employees just so that they can quietly target and layoff the ones who got the bump two years from now. I know this because I'VE SEEN THEM DO IT BEFORE.
I lost a lot of good coworkers, and was forced to tell three of my reports that they were laid off - just so that Frank and Jeff could tongue-polish each others' genitalia at the earnings call.
I'm done here. I'm f—ing done here.
The only thing now that keeps me from telling the entire management chain (and groveling lickspittles like you) to go f— themselves is the COVID crisis. Even then, I've gotten a lot of positive responses from recruiters around here, and oddly enough, WFH is actually perfectly okay with them, COVID or no COVID.)
I should have left way back when they sang that "One Fiserv" gospel while forming up layoff lists at the same damned time.
Originally posted by @sao+14RQewXO