Remote work didn't make people lazy. It just made it obvious how many jobs were mostly performative office presence.

15,000 people discarded, and a 20% CEO pay increase for Microsoft's Nadella, taking his salary to nearly $100m. And it's all become normalized. nchstats.com/microsofts-c...

Saw a job listing that said "Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable." Translation: You’ll only cry at work occasionally, and management has decided that’s within acceptable limits. Also Steve sometimes heats fish in the microwave.

1/6 Late stage capitalism Customer 'Service': 🧵 Step 1: Offshore your customer service. Step 2: Reduce headcount at your offshored center. If customers want to talk that badly, they'll wait.

Corporate speak is fascinating, amusing, and absurd. My all-time 'favorite' meaningless corporate buzzword? - “Synergy.” Everyone uses it. Nobody knows what it means.

30 years ago, companies laid people off as a last resort during financial crises. Now, Amazon, Meta, & Microsoft lay off 1000s while posting record profits - not because they're struggling, but because Wall Street rewards layoffs with stock price bumps. Workers went from assets to expenses #Layoffs

1/2 In The Psychopath Test, @jonronson.bsky.social explains how companies and the people who run them often exhibit psychopathic traits. He looks at CEOs through the lens of traits like charm, manipulation, and lack of empathy.

I saw a job listing that said: "Enjoys the nature of agency work, and understands not every day fits within the traditional 9-5" Translation: You'll work weekends without extra pay. Most days will be 8am to 8pm. They're not paying you for the flexibility - you're paying them with your time. ✅

Outplacement Services: The Booming Industry Built on Performative Guilt 🧵 1/10 Got laid off. Company offered us an "outplacement service" to help with our transition. Spoiler: It was spectacular bullshit designed to make THEM look/feel good, not help us.

It’d be nice if there were laws against fake job listings - the ones companies use to “build a pipeline” for when they might want to hire in the future. But worker exploitation is a journey, and fake listings are just the warm-up stretch.

1/7 LinkedIn used to be about work.🧵 Now it’s about pretending to be the kind of person who’s winning at work.

A year ago AI could write, code, and reason. Now it can summarize a blog post. Badly. For $20 a month. At this rate, it’s not replacing us, it’s becoming us. Not that this will stop companies using it as an excuse for more layoffs, because those CEO yachts don't pay for themselves ya know...

A company hiring for a mid-senior role asked for the exact dates (day/month/year) I started and finished high school, undergrad school, and post grad school. I can only imagine the kafkaesque web of forms and systems that job would entail.

Enshitification is a term we will all become more familiar with. It's where good products/services deliberately become worse, to maximize profits. Customer service was one of the 1st areas, and we've also seen this with AI where the free versions of a year ago are better than the paid versions now.

There’s a reason LinkedIn Lunatics subreddit has 3x more members than the LinkedIn sub. - LinkedIn itself is for lunatics now. Nobody can say what they actually think - it’s career suicide. So instead, we get rage-bait, fake positivity, performative nonsense and corporate fan fiction. #LinkedIn

LinkedIn have shadow banned my account, because while it's fine for people to rage bait ("What the death of my family taught me about B2B marketing) or just make up stuff throughout their LinkedIn personas, they don't like that I'm calling out corporations for their BS. #censorship

All these jobs “replaced by AI.” AI is a lazy liar that hallucinates. Most of my coworkers only had one of those traits. What could possibly go wrong? #AI #Layoffs

That moment when: • Your company posts about "culture" and "values" • But you just found out a 20-year employee was let go • It happened without any warning and no announcement. • And it was right before the holidays. Corporate social media vs. corporate reality is quite a gap.

The phrase "let's circle back" is just corporate speak for "I wasn't listening and also don't care."

Companies say employees were "impacted" by layoffs like they were hit by a natural disaster. They weren't impacted. They were fired. By executives. Who made a choice. Hurricanes impact people. Executives fire them. Stop hiding behind passive language. #Layoffs #CorporateSpeak

"We're Like a Startup" (From Billion-Dollar Companies) 1/4 Amazon's CEO just said they're "committed to operating like the world's largest startup." That's like Walmart saying "we operate like your neighborhood corner store." This is obviously absurd. 🧵

My favorite corporate oxymoron is "mandatory fun." Second favorite is "transparent leadership."

The AI Layoff Excuse 1/4: Companies are blaming AI for layoffs. "We're restructuring for the AI future!" "Automation is transforming our workforce!" Here's what's actually happening. 🧵

Amazon CEO: The Amazon layoffs were about culture. Culture of greed? #Amazon #Layoffs

Amazon's CEO "We're committed to operating like the world's largest startup" = "We want the ruthless cost-cutting and disposable workforce of a startup, combined with the market dominance and infinite resources of a global monopoly. Best of both worlds. For us, not you." #Amazon #Layoffs

Amazon CEO "...the announcement that we made a few days ago was not really financially driven, and it's not even really AI-driven, not right now, at least. It's culture. " These guys lie so effortlessly. Would be impressive if it wasn't so so sad. #Layoffs #Amazon

One of the scariest developments is how we are now being manipulated and programmed to think that mass layoffs are just unavoidable norms. Instead, courses showing leaders how to feign empathy is the best way forward... #Layoffs

www.linkedin.com/posts/mita-m... This is where we are now. We don't revolt because of the layoffs, we don't even question the layoffs. No, what is important is teaching leaders to lay people off 'humanely'. I prefer the honesty - We're laying you off because we're greedy. #Layoffs #CorporateAmerica

So... A couple of weeks in this place now. Trying to work out the split between real people, bots, trolls and the pig butcherers... It's these last ones being here in such numbers that's really wild... Guess it works, else they wouldn't be here. Sigh. #Scammers

"We're pivoting our strategy" = We have no idea what we're doing but need to look decisive. #CorporateAmerica

I know LinkedIn is a hub of fake positivism, but even for that place, people twisting things to suggest that positive mindset can overcome 10k plus people being laid off by Amazon, is a new low. #Layoffs

Nobody wants to work anymore" really means "Nobody wants to work for poverty wages while executives make 300x their salary #CorporateTruths

30 years ago, companies laid people off as a last resort during financial crises. Now, Amazon, Meta, & Microsoft lay off 1000s while posting record profits - not because they're struggling, but because Wall Street rewards layoffs with stock price bumps. Workers went from assets to expenses #Layoffs

If your company needs a consultant to help them find the right consultancy to solve their problems, your company IS the problem. Also, that meeting could have been an email. #CorporateCulture #Meetings #Consulting

It shows how absolutely f****d we are that there's people on LinkedIn essentially applauding the Amazon layoffs. "They're a business" "They're getting rid of low performers" etc. This is the system working as intended. No sympathy for thosands of people affected, just "This is capitalism" #Layoffs

1 Huge Amazon layoffs incoming: www.reuters.com/business/wor... "Managers of impacted teams were asked to undergo training on Monday for how to communicate with staff following email notifications that will start going out on Tuesday morning, the people said."

1/3 Rivian's Chief Comms officer on LinkedIn: "Yesterday Rivian announced that we made the very difficult decision to make a number of structural adjustments to our teams, resulting in a reduction in the size of our team by roughly 4.5%.

In Corporate America, the only people in their 50's who regularly keep their jobs and survive the layoffs are the CEOs and others in the leadership team. So they're good enough, but all the other folks over 50 (many of whom have kids, and mortgages) are disposable. #Layoffs #CorporateAmerica

1/7 Big Tech figured out a great trick: Hire "contractors" and suddenly they don't have to pay for health insurance, 401k, PTO, sick days, or severance. Same work. Same hours. Zero protections. Let's talk about the contract worker scam. 🧵

The gig economy isn't about flexibility - it's about corporations offloading risk and responsibility onto workers while keeping most of the profits. #LateStageCapitalism

The evolution of corporate jargon: Problem → Challenge → Opportunity → Growth Experience. Next step is to call layoffs "Involuntary Permanent Absence Initiatives". #Layoffs

Remote work didn't make people lazy. It just made it obvious how many jobs were mostly performative office presence.

Outplacement Services: The Booming Industry Built on Performative Guilt 🧵 1/10 Got laid off. Company offered us an "outplacement service" to help with our transition. Spoiler: It was spectacular bullshit designed to make THEM look/feel good, not help us.

Every company claims to value transparency, but few can tolerate honesty. Transparency, and authenticity, are just meaningless buzzwords.

I once worked a 100 hour week (paid only for 40 of course). The next few weeks were 'only' 80 hours. Corporate America: Where "we're all in this together" means you're working unpaid overtime while executives are enjoying their bonuses from you doing two people's work on one salary. #Capitalism

The 1020-EZ Time Bomb 1/10 They promised you "tax-free overtime." They promised "no tax on tips." It was a lie. And the proof will hit your bank account in January. A thread on the 1020-EZ time bomb no one in DC is talking about. 🧵

You're not lazy for wanting to work less. You're not entitled for wanting healthcare. You're not asking too much for wanting stability. The system is broken. Not you. #MentalHealth #WorkReform

YouTube is full of ads promising easy money; affiliate marketing, magic trading signals and bots, digital real estate and more. Scams repackaged as the American Dream. YouTube lets it happen because the scammers (with massive profit margins) make them far more $ than legitimate businesses. #scams

The American Dream used to be a house and comfortable retirement before you die. Now it's just "having enough savings that one medical emergency won't bankrupt you." #LateStageCapitalism

Job posting: This Position Is a Perfect Fit For You If Our Company Values: Best Together, Impact-Obsessed, Excellence Expected, Evolve Always and Accountability with an ‘I’ – really speak to you.” Glassdoor review:Toxic high-school clique disguised as a company- Expect bullying, burnout and therapy