Most of the people being laid off so far have been the ones doing the actual work. And for peanuts compared to earnings of the real visceral fat, which is middle and upper management. Not that I really care. I try to switch jobs as fast as possible and commit to companies as little as possible. But I have seen the same thing everywhere. Bad management and treatment of employees as if they are disposable office supplies. It’s sad we accepted this as a normal order of affairs.
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The irony is that WF does not offer any incentives to work hard and do right by the company.
Very few if any can visualize a career path filled with promotions and challenging/interesting work over the next 1-5 years (or ever).
Adding to that, HR hasn't been prioritized. The current HR system is awful at managing human resources. Hard workers extend olive branches over and over to the low and average workers while those same workers are included under a nice cozy blanket of promotions and raises/bonuses. Where is the balance in that? How is it any worker's fault, good or bad, that the system is failing them?
It is a huge misstep to point fingers at workers during this era. The real problem hasn't been solved, which is that executives cannot provide a clear answer to the question: "Why would working for Wells Fargo be a great choice?"
Charlie Scharrf is Baron Harkonnen. a floating fat F
@g-n and those fat cells know the politics of maneuvering and manipulating the worker bees. They get all the honey. It will be interesting to see how the AI revolution will affect this. Unfortunately, the fat cell at the center of the hive will manipulate AI by allocating it just like any other resource. They will glob over it, moving their fat bodies to stifle it. With training, the worker bees perhaps can use AI to "sting like a bee". They may be met with all those "safety fears" which is just management trying to control and stifle the "efficiencies" that AI gives. The main efficiency is the elimination of "white collar" managerial positions. AI is like those new GLP-1 medications; significant development in weight management.
Contemporary feudalism.
The entire DEI org could get laid off Monday and the company would literally feel no impact
The biggest clump of festering fat at this company is Hudson Yards. We're going to dump a billion dollars down that drain for zero benefit. Fire everyone in the building and sell it and we'd be infinitely better off in the long term.
It's all about increasing Charlies salary.
This is how corporate America operates. Employees are tools to be used when needed then discarded for a cheaper replacement whenever possible. It's all about extracting maximum returns for those at the top.
laughably naive. the fat cells are protective of each other. the entire organism is geared towards nourishing and enriching those fat cells with money nutrients above all other cell types. the most visceral fat can indeed be found inside the c-suite itself, which is the lobotomized organismal brain.