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[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 78 points 1 day ago

I had this happen to me at a company that is now an IBM subsidiary. I took FMLA leave to get mental health help to cope with the burnout, and about a week after I got back, they took me into an office for a "quick catch-up meeting" where they told me it wasn't working out and that I had to go. I'd worked my balls off, getting promoted directly from product support up to software engineering within a year, but apparently that didn't indicate anything positive to them.

[-] Atlas_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago
[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 1 points 17 hours ago

The poor lil guys are so flat now. My sack looks like someone ran over silly putty with a zamboni machine.

[-] IronBird@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

yup, taking fmla just signals to these jackals that you actually know your rights...and they don't want you potentially spreading that knowledge via cultural osmosis into their company

[-] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago
[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 16 points 1 day ago

I'll just come out and say it was SevOne, although it was well before the acquisition. This was right around the time they got a huge infusion of cash from Chinese investors.

[-] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago
[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago

Thanks, it was. What's sad is that, when it was just owned by Bain Capital (Mitt Romney's company), things were actually excellent. Great benefits, great work-life balance, if you needed a break you took a break. Then the Chinese money came in and all of a sudden everything went to shit.

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