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Unless there is another job offering with similar compensation/benefits/etc. I'm not sure most employees will be able to do anything. "Leaders" and bold-faced lies are a duo as old as time. Macroeconomic conditions have many chained to their shitty bosses.


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I think many of the top employees already are. they have no worries finding alternative employers. it would be even better if it turns out that average to mediocre is all there is left.

I have a hunch they will instead fire, or bully them into continuing working.

Yeah it will. Often people are sad someone is leaning, and they may start to look for other jobs themselves.

But all this is actually in the interest of the people working there. They may get higher salary and better work somewhere else.


Doubtful. Most of these employees will have new gigs doing similar work within 1-2 months.

It won't. They'll simply shift to another job. It's not like they're absolute idiots, they can learn a new trade.

The "bad" people will hold on as long as they can - partially because they won't have it as easy to find a new job, partially because they gamble on enough "high performers" leaving that they cannot be fired because otherwise everything would collapse.

They have an option to quit now. If the job is so awful, but people still do it the alternatives must worse. E.g. becoming homeless or an even worse job. I’m pretty sure we will see a spike in both.

Yeah, nah, obv I don't think that. I quit.

But maybe you mean a hypothetical "you" of other people still working there. Obviously it's a mix, but I suspect on the whole most people are smart enough to see that these kinds of things are unlikely to accomplish much.

But they're also likely happy that upper management is finally acknowledging these dysfunctions.


The Sales people will survive, with their bonuses. Someone in a "cost center" like Support will get laid off instead.

Really? Most will stay, take the money and look for jobs elsewhere

They already do - when the value goes down today, they are laid off, or the bosses do more wage theft than usual

Would have to turn into a real layoff or termination for anyone that refuses to come back without resigning.

Sorry, implied inflection on the internet. I expect productivity will be astoundingly low.

The entire company has been told they could lose their job anytime in the next 14 months. People with options will start looking to leave, those without alternatives will live in fear.


Hehe, or, they will will get replaced as soon as they learn enough to find a better paying position. It’s really a triple choice: 1. Shirtfront the stupidity 2. Build the relationship 3. Avoid the whole thing and work with people who are on the same wavelength

They've probably already lost 95% of the 'hardcore' people. If you're good, and EM's threatening to fire everyone, then you get another job. The people who've stayed are presumably makeweights and time-servers.

The employees can see how the customers are being treated. I expect most of them will be moving on, negating the acquihire.

It could be a ruse for folks to get rehired.

Uh, yeah, that's probably much more likely than management taking a pay cut at almost any US company.

Or getting laid off.


Likely, the cabal of employees will continue to feel smug that they took the moral high ground by refusing to contribute to the national defense.
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