It’s sickening really. I just need to figure out something outside the corporate world. Unfortunately health insurance is a huge consideration though.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 20, 2021, at 11:59 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > It's the MBA mindset, "Maximize shareholder profit, get paid yourself, get > a golden parachute, repeat." > I swear getting an MBA is just repeating "Layoff anybody who makes more than > the minimum" over and over. > -Curt > > On Tuesday, July 20, 2021, 9:55:18 AM EDT, Jim Cathey via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Our company was bought, and really _was_ a valuable acquisition in > that our products, added to their line, were highly successful. Yet, there > were multiple layoffs. We were continually told that we were valued by > corporate, > and not to worry. That is, until they decided to close the office (what > remained > of our original company) altogether and move all support to India. (Useless, > as we'd 'trained' them several times, but nobody stayed there long enough to > remember/retain the training. All real fixes were still done by us.) _Our_ > engineering staff was, IMHO, world-class. India's was just.... world market. > > This is the same company that had decided to 'save' money by moving our > extensive > (and expensive) test lab, housed in an _owned_ building, from eastern WA to > silicon valley --- where space, labor, and power (significant) are _so_ much > cheaper! > They got rid of the building altogether, basically giving it away, and moved > the remaining > engineering staff to rented space. Fools. > > A (very) few were offered work-from-home status, including me. I decided > that if I > was going to work from home, a _different_ offer I had on the table, in a > different > industry, was far better. A nice family-run business instead of lying > corporate asshats. > > Screw them. Now I work for a theme park rather than the telecomm industry. > > Good luck, you'll probably need it. > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
