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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • My employer told us all the rumours were true. Layoffs were happening. They called it “difficult conversations” instead of firings.

    About 1/5th of a team of 1000 people.

    Apparently they hadn’t decided who yet.

    Meanwhile we just received the biggest bonus in the companies history due to historic profits.

    Then the CEO told investors that they expect a big pickup early next year and will need to hire a bunch of people to handle the demand.

    So they are firing a bunch of people for 6 months to hit financial targets in the back half of the year before hiring people again.

    Everyone that is to be fired is still waiting to find out who will be axed.







  • All the renter’s calling for the heads of the upper middle class property owners.

    Stop coming after us. We already pay the most tax and get the least benefits from the tax.

    We don’t get all the offsets the millionaires get, and we don’t get the handouts the poor get.

    We just get gouged everywhere. We don’t know enough to invest in anything other than housing.

    Stop coming after us. We aren’t the problem.





  • I can. Have a meeting in Citrix and I happily work while people yabber on in the background.

    The real killer is the face to face meetings. My group supervisor now demands anyone in the office on a particular day go into his office for the team meeting. That’s a real time waster.

    People online can’t hear us properly standing around in his office. Can’t get work done while standing in there.

    Just let me work from home so I don’t have a bunch of people wander over to me to ask stupid questions during the day.

    If you want something send me an email and I’ll get to it when I have time. Walking into my space, making me take my noise cancelling headphones off so you can yabber at me and break my concentration is so annoying.

    I’m untouchable at home. I work until I need a break, then quickly sort questions and queries, then get back into my groove for another hour or two.