Every round of layoffs has made me less willing to go above and beyond. I've reached the point where doing my job just well enough is enough.
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the whole model is to pass risk around internally and then blame failures on those kicked to the curb
it's f-ing gross
I’d be very leery of entrusting my financial accounts/information to a teeming horde of angry, burnt-out, disengaged employees. If clients could peek under the hood of this corroded jalopy, they’d flee in droves.
Exactly. Behave as you’re explicitly incentivized to do.
In an environment of bi weekly layoffs, even a growing company feels like a dying one. The effort to reduce cost and headcount becomes the culter most visible to employees . It's a shame people have to work in an environment like that.
They promote people all the time in India, so that should tell you something.
There is no upside to exceeding expectations: no promotion, no raise, no extra bonus. We all just barely work hard enough to avoid the axe.
WF is toast as a company.
Charlie Scarf could manage his way out of a paper bag.
@OP
ok?
Doing your job just well enough has always been enough. Odds are half your team doesnt do anything at all most of the time so you'll look like a hero in comparison by making any effort whatsoever.
That's the entire company now except form senior leadership. They don't even realize the culture they created.