• marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works
    312·
    2 months ago

    Hahahaha, yeah, hiring overseas is a great way to skimp on payroll. In my experience, it’s also a great way to skimp on quality, effectiveness, and sanity. We just got rid of one guy who, immediately after hiring, asked for an RTO exemption for a newborn child; fine, it was granted. When that expired, still refused. Was counseled on it and their low quality of work. Then tried having someone else attend their meetings, was called on it, and resigned. Pretty sure they were trying to subcontract their job to work multiple full-time jobs.

    • shawn1122@lemm.eeEnglish
      36·
      2 months ago

      Seeing more and more of this domestically.

      People are recognizing that their relationship with their employer is exploitative and are trying to return that energy.

      I’ve worked with a few people recently that clearly were holding multiple jobs or were much more focussed on their side hustle.

      Symptom of a bigger issue in my opinion.

      Could it have been Jesus that said “Those who live by the free market shall die by the free market?”

      I like how his expression of inspiration / passion is destructive (running through a wall). It’s very on brand.

      • marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, I hate the exploitative nature of overseas hiring, just colonialism with a fresh coat of paint. I also dislike their in-person requirement of two days per week. As has been noted elsewhere in this thread, there is a good, non-exploitative use case in providing overnight coverage for US-based orgs so that no one has to work night shifts. I’ve done both, and it’s hard to get and keep good people on a night shift, regardless of where they live.

        I’m all for doing the minimum to stay employed, but in this case I was told the employee didn’t, so not only were they not meeting even a low bar, but they were exploiting someone else in turn to do it.

        • baines@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          32·
          2 months ago

          it’s hard to get and keep good people on a night shift

          like everything else, it’s really not

          you just have to actually pay for it

          • marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works
            21·
            2 months ago

            Having started on the night shift in the position I was hiring for, I felt it was good. Emphasis on the “keeping people” part of it. Hardly anyone (except this one guy) wants to stay on the night shift forever, and eventually no amount of shift differential will make up for it. Personally, I would much rather hire people from around the world since the work could be done remotely, so that no one has to work in the middle of the night.

            Pretty easy to be flippant with “just pay more” without considering the realities of people’s preferences, how much I was able to offer before I was told no more, the quality of the people applying, the skills required, etc.

    • Vent@lemm.ee
      741·
      2 months ago

      Silly domestic remote employees want a livable wage and are less tolerant to being paid less because they don’t live in an overpriced area.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      That’s weird. It’s almost like they don’t actually care about “incentive structure”, “attracting top talent”, “work/life balance”, “team cohesion”, etc. But they wouldn’t prioritize exploiting workers by seeing who they can control the most for the least amount of pay, would they??

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      55·
      2 months ago

      Isn’t it. It has a strange implication as though being in the office is the proper place and one day we all just forgot to be there.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      91·
      2 months ago

      This guy seems to have no clue that introverts and neurodivergents are way more sensitive to the hot/cramped/bright/loud environment as the toxicity it is - fun fact: open plan offices are considered sexist - and if he can’t engage his people at their fullest simply by enabling people to self-select work environment, then he needs a little more mentoring.

      But that went out of style 20 years ago with technical writers and putting employee health before workload as required.

    • warrenson@lemmy.nzEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      It feels like a phrase from a cult trying to convince ex members to return to the fold.

    • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      47·
      2 months ago

      My employer has stooped so low as to call it “return to work”. Like, what the fuck have I been doing the past 5 years!?

      I’m currently in the final round of interviews for a new employer. I don’t expect that they will be nearly different, but at least they will pay more.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        In my salary calculations, office days will attract an added cost and is part of the negotiation. MDA , with its multiple sites and janky schedule, for instance, was a 100k job with 300k of attracted bullshit.

        We didn’t come to an agreement.

      • Whateley@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        He’s a Dartmouth alum, too. I can tell you as a New Hampshire native that we’d be in a better place if that fascist finishing school for nepo baby cunts was wiped from the planet.

        • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 months ago

          Harvard can fuck right off too denying degrees on behalf of the zionists, MIT wasn’t much better threatening to suspend anyone pro Palestine. Brown at least negotiated with protestors, that’s something I suppose.

          For all the talk of the ‘liberal elite’ in the Ivy League there are a LOT of old money nepo racists and institutions built around them.

  • MTK@lemmy.world
    1071·
    2 months ago

    “I live in a poor and war-torn country so I will work for a low wage even while my home might be bombes”

    Captialist nut jobs: “So dedicated!”

    I swear, if it was legal to execute employees they would do it everyday because “that’s what it means to be a good CEO” or some shit

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
      24·
      2 months ago

      They’d sell their organs first.

      “Today is mandatory skin, bone marrow, and liver donation day. There might be pizza. Employees with moret han one kidney have to refer to HR.”

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
    68·
    2 months ago

    Yeah, when you’re easily replaceable and need the job, you tend to work yourself to death. It’s really hard to get a tech job in India, and I assume the same is true for Pakistan.

    So yeah, dude has no EQ.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    201·
    2 months ago

    This is the corporate behavior Libertarians never want to discuss. Their Elysium where corporations treat everyone well and don’t destroy things out of some unforced understanding that to do so would place them at a major disadvantage is a farce. There will always be disparity, and corporations will leverage that to pay the poorer less than the better off, dump waste where there are no rules, and drive people to keep working while bombs fall near their homes.

  • thericofactor@sh.itjust.works
    65·
    2 months ago

    Great, another 26 year old that stumbled into wealth and thinks that makes him an authority.

    Like those 20 something “executive coaches” fresh out of school I always seem to stumble upon on LinkedIn. They think they are incredible, but in reality they are only incredible in the literal sense.

    • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
      43·
      2 months ago

      That time was super short, happened only in a few selected countries and is an anomaly blip in the history of the world. And even if you think that your life is noticeably worse today, you’re still far far better off than the majority of the population today and throughout history.

      As for why this time has ended: humans have a need to live in a need. Otherwise they become bored and destroy everything they have. Again, that state of life is not normal, humans cannot live like that, we’re not adapted to such conditions.