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by Spivak 532 days ago
Are you me? This is shot for shot what's been going on at $dayjob lined up with the pandemic as well.

The sad part is that the culture that was so nice wasn't predicated on future growth. It wasn't like we ran out of runaway or anything and suddenly couldn't afford the perks. None of them cost dollars that would actually appear on the budget and productivity's tanked so not really sure what they bought here.

I genuinely don't understand "symbolic cost cutting" where they just artificially make it shittier to work there. It just makes people quit— and if you're thinking, "well that's why" they're desperately trying to get people to stay and will do anything as long as it's nothing.