So they told me today they hired my replacement, oh and by the way come in tomorrow to train him

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17. My company is terribly short handed, but won't hire.

So they said they're going to bring in some consultants to remotely assist us.

As a team, we told management that if they bring in consultants, that make more than we do, and they don't even have to come in, we're all working from home effective immediately. They're now looking at how to bring in onsite consultants.

When I got laid off from my previous job, they sent my job to India. But in a twist, they hadn't hired anybody in India yet. So they whacked 50% of my team, but had nobody ready to take that work load. Turns out some manager 5 layers above me got a bonus for cutting costs with no connection to service level agreements or customer satisfaction.

So he got a huge bonus, and we all got fired. They didn't catch him until he tried to whack the other 50% a year later. His management said, they're still not ready, what are you doing? His answer? You paid me to cut costs. I get the same bonus if I lay half the team off or the whole team. But I get two bonuses if I cut the first half in one year, and the 2nd half in the other.

He got fired, but got to take his bankroll with him.


Working for a living was never awesome, but in most cases at least management didn't resent your existence. At the prior place, they told me that if I worked for free I was still too expensive because of rent on the facility, light, heat, etc. Made me feel real good.