Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

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Michael Burry said on Tuesday that the U.S. labor market is about to be sliced in half, with blue-collar workers remaining a sought-after commodity, while white-collar workers see job losses and falling wages. In other words, the good times are ending for office workers.

“I see a bifurcated labor market developing as unskilled and semiskilled remain in short supply, but white-collar workers, having proven their redundancy during COVID, will find gross excess in the labor market, pressuring wages at the end,” he wrote in a Tuesday tweet.

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I recommend a book where the censored title might be “Male-Cow-Solid-Emissions Jobs” by David Graeber. Most jobs at Cisco are such jobs because leadership is highly rewarded for failure. What makes anyone think that leadership will suddenly become both self aware and altruistic and toss themselves out into the street for being incompetent, and what people with the competence to completely restructure a company in this state would want to waste their careers on fixing minutiae in legacy systems when they could lead the creation of something new and far more rewarding?

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Post ID: @2xxa+1huBaimT

Honestly don’t care. Not only do I have blue collar trade skills in addition my technical skills, I’m confident I could run a business and make as much money as I do in IT.

Running most small businesses is hard work but it’s not complicated.

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Post ID: @2bwn+1huBaimT

Is it wet, yet?

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Post ID: @1isz+1huBaimT

That math major is convincing the Ohio teacher's pension fund we are an innovative tech company. If he needs to use a few buzzwords or call himself a "math major" to impress the people of Ohio... let him

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Post ID: @1yqn+1huBaimT

code can be written from low pay countries like Vietnam, Philippines, Bangladesh, etc.
accounting and hr management can be done from 3rd world countries
IT support is always done in India, over a billion people and ready to take any pay.
CX and TAC can move to Mexico, Brazil, Poland. 70% cheaper than in US
Sales & Marketing can be done virtually on the web
What's left? chop some useless directors, VPs, SVPs.
Fire that clueless math major masquerading as a our CEO.
Cisco becomes nimble and a profitable company.

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Post ID: @jhf+1huBaimT

Lol Michael who???

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Post ID: @tah+1huBaimT

Eventually one of his predictions will be right

That being said, man dooms harder than anyone else

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Post ID: @vfg+1huBaimT

Outsource office jobs to countries without labor laws. Ideally we have a high-employment rate of wage slaves working at Target or Home Depot.

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Post ID: @dac+1huBaimT

Office workers cranking out powerpoints are the "unskilled" employees. Covid may have shown corporate America what's truly valuable and what is not. You can't be a plumber and work from home. But, it is possible to run a company without layers of spreadsheets and powerpoint.

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Post ID: @mrj+1huBaimT

https://fortune.com/2022/06/29/michael-burry-tesla-layoffs-white-collar-workers-screwed-offshoring-the-big-short/

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