Why use tactics like this?
Because they can, because there's no laws protecting employees against deception.
HR also calls office workers "supervisors" and "managers", despite a large portion of L1/L2 workers not falling under NLRA's definition of an actual supervisor. It's an anti-union tactic designed entirely to deceive you.
The company also engages in an information war against their own employees. Changes are never communicated to employees, and the toilet pipeline of passing the steaming hot sh-t from leadership usually involves the management chain, unless they are desperately trying to contain rumors from spreading.
Zero two-way communication. Zero trust on both ends.
It's like a really bad relationship that's headed towards a complete collapse.
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