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Amazon tells managers they can now fire employees who won't come into the office 3 times a week::Amazon shared new guidelines that give managers a template for terminating employees over RTO.

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[–] [email protected] 162 points 1 year ago (5 children)

2020 - 2023 has really revealed just how little business leaders really have a clue about anything. They are all high-performers who push and push but don't really have any idea what is important or not. What we really need is a ban on business bros lol.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you considered that lowering headcount via rto firings increases profits, which leads to short-term growth in the stock market, so bonuses? Sure, some people will lose their homes, but someone else got a new boat. When God closes a door, he opens a window 🙏

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

An anecdote:

My high-paying tech job wants us back 2 days a week. I intentionally bought a house near a train that will get me to the downtown office in about 15 minutes while many of my coworkers live in the distant suburbs where commuting will require a lot more time and effort.

Despite this, I STILL don't go into the office. The biggest reasons:

  1. Nobody is there - it's a ghost town.
  2. I'm far less productive while I'm there because I have to leave early to pick up my kids from school.
  3. My boss doesn't go in at all - ever - due to extremely valid health reasons (his wife is undergoing cancer treatment).
  4. His boss moved out of state. Like way, way out of state. He's got a nice office with a beautiful view. He doesn't and can't use it.
  5. My boss's boss's boss - (the CTO) moved to Florida and, rumor has it, lives full-time on his yacht.

I mean... at some point we just have to acknowledge that our giant, empty office space would be much better suited as housing.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

It’s a punishment in the class war. The upper class think the peasants have it too good. You literally have the rich going on the news saying “a nice little recession” will straighten out workers.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

business leaders are not high performers... The only people who do anything at all are direct team leaders - because they're usually doing the same work as the team itself plus all the administrative bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seriously I want leaders to go after any business that doesn’t understand how emissions work. And I don’t mean just fine them. I mean shut that shit down and then fine them.or shut them down til they can push out a business model showing they are saving emissions.

And if a number of ex employees end up on unemployment insurance if there’s repetitive reports of the same bad management the business gets hefty fines to support unemployment in general. Bad management is way out of hand and it’s time for that shit to foot the bill of the cost of making an unworkable environment and impacting entire neighborhoods that cannot work within a local company

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

High performers???? They don’t do shit