And now, fast forward to 2023, they are laying me off, along with another 99 people.
In a way I’m relieved because I was planning to change jobs due to burnout (burnout that my manager referred to during my layoff meeting as being “a little bit stressed”).
However, due to the same said burnout, I couldn’t do much job searching and needed a long vacation.
I got laid off while on vacation, a vacation I took late because of the deadlines set by the company, also a vacation which I spent recovering from burnout (and doing other fun things, don’t get me wrong.)
Mainly I blame their obsession with “growth hacking”. Now this company is a TV company and have canceled a large list of programs viewers like because they aren’t making enough revenue.
And everyone does it with a smile on their face, under the guise of ‘efficiency’.
How does one increase efficiency by reducing the number of workers and not really coming up with any tools so that less workers could do the same job?
The negotiations with the union ended in disagreement about my team’s layoffs but I got the boot anyway.
So what did I get myself burnt out for? Absolutely nothing worth it. I should have just quit-quitted. This didn’t come easy to me because I place a lot of importance on product ownership. I’m early in my career and wanted to build cool stuff that people use and enjoy.
If I’m going to be honest movements like that seems to be money laundering.
1 keep the staff moving
2 no one can really tell if a name in the paycheck is a real person or no(if forged right)
3 you can say you hired 300 people or something, and then fired them. Keep doing this in a cycle.(mass fire and contractvis usefull to not know who is real and who is a forgery unless under scrutiny.
4 yhe that feels like the money removing part of the operation, from the legal to the less legal channels.
Could be, though it sounds a bit farfetched.
However this company has been well established since the 90s and are a major television company in the country I live in. Basically we had large organization changes that made no sense and we later found out that there were disputes between upper management and that as soon as one of them leaves their job, the rest take the company and steer it into a whole new direction. Meanwhile the entire staff is trying to manage under all the stress and we’ve had all kinds of bugs and problems with our “new launch”.
They made us build the pyramids then laid off the excess.
Well the best money laundering is Farfetch. When you placed Al your money in a legal company but suddenly you need a large amount of cash this is o e of the ways to withdraw it without drawing to much attention