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[-] Disaster@sh.itjust.works 22 points 5 months ago

Yeah, then they lose all their best and brightest who are disappearing off to work on their own things.

All these idiot C-suite trash will wind up holding is a bag of yesterday's technology, a mass of obsolete infrastructure and a bunch of brands they've helped destroy.

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 months ago

It is by design. Pool a bunch of money, buy companies to bleed them dry. Wait for new companies to take their place, rinse and repeat.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Eh... You can run a company without the best or brightest nowadays. Mediocrity gets the job done, mostly.

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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 22 points 5 months ago

I had a shower thought the other day that if more CEOs were shot dead, there'd probably be less Return to Office.

People are sometimes like "oh but violence is bad!" but ignore all the casual harms inflicted on people by capitalism and friends.

[-] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 5 months ago

They also ignore all the freedom of the lower classes which was won through violence against the upper class.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

When the people in charge refuse to listen, the only tool left is violence.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 5 months ago

One dead CEO caused so much unity on health reform. Never seen anything like this in my life time.

[-] DerKommissar@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

The (attitude) Adjuster goes blam.

[-] MinFapper@startrek.website 3 points 5 months ago

Nah CEOs will mandate RTO for workers while they themselves stay remote.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 5 months ago

They can be killed in their homes, too.

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[-] const_void@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago

H1Bs are fine with coming into the office and won’t put up a fight with any corporate policy….

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yup every time I see H1B I replace it in my head with tech slave. They're paid, but the deck is so stacked against them they effectively cannot refuse anything. ANYTHING. A well informed H1B worker might score a chance at permanent residency for some of the abuse they suffer. But mostly it's just years of abuse with very strict rules to get their residency.

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[-] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 4 points 5 months ago

Why do you think the mega rich are so keen to invest in robotics? With AI and robotics, there is no palace guard that’ll turn sides when everyone’s had enough.

[-] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Meanwhile Accenture has 1400:1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio.

[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Fingers and toes crossed, get'em for every last penny!

[-] chobeat@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

luck is not gonna help. Only action and organizing can save us. Join a union too.

[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Oh, I would if I lived in a place which had such movements, believe me... As it is, all I can do is wish for Lady Luck to smile upon those who have the chance! Sure, it's a bad idea to bank everything on luck, but it can never hurt to have some on your side!

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[-] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

I’m in management now but I say go get ‘em please.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 10 points 5 months ago

most management I would assume would be with the workers. If your not c suite your nothing.

[-] huginn@feddit.it 3 points 5 months ago

Tech is a bit different because a significant portion of your compensation comes as stock when you get higher up the ladder but yeah.

[-] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 5 months ago

Stock options and grants are a tool to trick you into accepting lower pay and conflating your interests with those of the capital class. (Speaking as someone who has received both!)

[-] huginn@feddit.it 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah I'm speaking from experience here in that about a third of my pay is in stock.

I wouldn't say my pay is low though, for what it's worth.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 5 months ago

Only idiots confuse owning some stock with being part of owner class lol

Same type of idiot who sold out the country for 401k and a McMansion

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[-] Azal@pawb.social 5 points 5 months ago

Look, I'm kind of an outsider on this conversation because until we get a DaVinci for mechanical work, I'm never going to be WFH, but there's something interesting I've noted with all my programmer friends.

The industrial world, that's where unions are, they're getting pulled out but that's the places unions live. The people working in stores are starting to push hard on unions. My industry, biomed, hasn't really gotten unions off the ground, but it's rumbling. We're a small industry that's so short on people it's just easier to move jobs than start a union, but we're a mix of tech and industrial backgrounds. But the programming tech backgrounds, at least here in the midwest, is apparently so anti-union I don't know how it'd get off the ground from what I'm hearing from my friends. Their coworkers who are mad about RTO will immediately turn around and say the corporate lines about unions. I'm honestly kinda baffled and hope your industry gets it figured out.

[-] peregrin5@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

They're just trying to scare the Americans out of the office so they can replace them with cheaper H1Bs who won't talk back.

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