I'm a VP with a biggish company. Every year, the first week of the year the senior managers from across the US fly somewhere warm, play golf, shoot guns, sit by a beach or a pool, get wasted, ham handedly try to cheat on their spouses and have meetings about how to take more of your labor value. Obviously due to covid that won't be a thing this year, and instead the conferences are virtual, so me, and a couple hundred other ghouls who already make six figures + got shipped huge snack boxes, boxes of booze and received $500 credits at door dash. The CEO just gave his kickoff presentation and, with all the money they saved from not paying for travel they're giving away ten k worth of Amazon gift cards and a brand new Tesla. So just who is eligible for this windfall, you ask. The hundreds of warehouse workers who couldn't work from home, the truck drivers out on the road, installers and sales people exposing themselves to covid every day? Nah, us couple hundred ghouls already making incomes in the top 5%. Can I just guillotine myself and be done with this already?

  • KiaKaha [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I’m more interested in how a communist became VP.

    • J_Edbear_Hoover [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Actually, by abandoning hierarchical structures, sourcing solutions from the people closest to the work and convincing my bosses that cheaper was rarely better, especially wrt labor.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        I've found simply ignoring higher management directives (like screenshot/webcam-taking timetracking), lying about it, and letting my team members work as happily and comfortably as possible gets me higher productivity and more promotions, while the MBA ghouls I've found myself around flail wildly wondering why turnover is up 200% and productivity is down.

        • InnuendOwO [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          there is not one job i have worked at where the job wouldn't be better by having my management just stop doing literally anything unless i ask them for help first

          tyfys

          • Mardoniush [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            I don't really care if they're productive as long as I'm not fired and no one bothers me so I can keep posting. That's my management strategy, "Do whatever needs to be done so I can minimise human contact. If something is going to make me have to talk to people if it gets worse, tell me what I need to do to stop it"

            If that means they can play Eve Online for 30 hours a week, cool. If it means they disappear to a beach for a week without holiday approval, cool.

            A maximally effective manager is one that doesn't need to do any work. Managerial labour is a symptom of a workplace flaw.

    • Rabid_Dog [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      We have embedded agents and subversive cells all throughout society. They will activate when the code is given.

        • Rabid_Dog [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          The code word is dog faced pony soldier. Anarchobidenists are on standby to destroy all the suburban lawns and gardens.

      • J_Edbear_Hoover [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, it was the latter. Something just clicked one day when I stopped looking past the swathes of umhoused people in the bay and I realized that I only had what had because people had to live like they did. Eventually I was watching a bunch of cargo ships go under the Bay Bridge and extrapolated that to the rest of the world. Kind of hard to unswallow the red pill.

        • Kuori [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Good on you for making this realization when it was against your bests interests to do so. It's heartening to see that it is possible.

          As for what you should do, definitely don't guillotine yourself. In your position, I'd fund the most radical leftist groups I could find, domestic and otherwise. I'm sure there are more considered responses elsewhere, of course.

          • Rabid_Dog [they/them]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah donate to Kamala Harris 2024 campaign drive! They could really use the money

            • Kuori [she/her]
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              4 years ago

              My man Pete is hot and ready and this is how you do him? You're not getting invited to Chuck E. Cheese when we win, fucko.

    • JuanGLADIO [any]
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      4 years ago

      Communist VP here. I essentially repackage what the frontline says in MBA speak.

    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Honestly I can see being able to see clearly through all the corporate bullshit giving you an advantage over people that actually unironically buy into the corporate ideology, since, you know, it has no bearing on reality at all.