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1. ChrisM+xP[view] [source] 2025-05-27 09:14:24
>>gwintr+(OP)
I worked for GE, back in the 1980s. It was the “Neutron Jack” era.

The subunit I worked for, was almost supernaturally dysfunctional.

I was there for 18 months, and they had 3 reorgs, in that time.

Once, the VP of our division, called an “all-hands” meeting, to tell us that he was a lawyer that didn’t have a computer, didn’t like software (we were a software company), basically, didn’t like us, and that we’d better get on the stick, and make number go up.

Ah…fun times…

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2. Firmwa+yc1[view] [source] 2025-05-27 13:13:57
>>ChrisM+xP
> didn’t like us, and that we’d better get on the stick, and make number go up

Unfathomably based. I'd much prefer these honest types who are upfront about it, that I don't like you, we don't like you either, it's all transactional here, work in exchange for money till we find a better job, than the sociopath corporate assassins who try to gaslight workers telling everyone how we're all family and we're all in this tough period together, meanwhile doing layoffs, cutting things like break room coffee while buying another Porsche and building an executive gym.

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3. Michae+Lh1[view] [source] 2025-05-27 13:47:47
>>Firmwa+yc1
That sounds more like a parody, how does the company not implode with that kind of incompetence?
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4. colive+uL1[view] [source] 2025-05-27 17:12:00
>>Michae+Lh1
They sure did. It took a few years, though.
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