"We will fund this AI investment by reallocating the budget from 2026 annual salary adjustments."
  • WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2 hours

    So when are we going to start eating the CEO’s? They are already building bunkers, waiting for our herd to thin.

  • bajabound@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 hours

    We’re trying like hell to get rid of you - the liabilities (employees). We’ll die trying if we must.

  • ramble81@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5 hours

    There is a reason I have always argued for a larger base salary and less of the other parts. I don’t care about the bonus, I don’t care about equity, I don’t care about stock options. I’ve been screwed on each and every one of those in one way or another but never the base.

    Does that mean I’ve ever hit it as lucky or as big as my peers? Sadly no, but I’ve also had a hell of a lot less stress and have still managed to carve out a very comfortable life.

    • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2 hours

      “Total compensation” and “initial salary” are words that I don’t need to pay attention to in negotiations.

      I’m not in sales and I’m not in leadership. My bonus is not going to buy me a car. I need that salary.

    • notptr@lemmy.cyberia9.orgEnglish
      4 hours

      Yeah, when I was getting hiried on at company they were raving about tgeir bonuses they give out and they were on track on making a good one that year. Fast forward 5 months I was laid off no bonus for me.

      Before that I worked for a company for 9 years gave stocks that only had value when an event happens. Well I lost my stock because they laid me off right before the event (they got sold to T-Mobile)

      • ramble81@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3 hours

        Yeah, I had equity with a nearly exponential vesting function where I got a whopping $2,000 after being laid off after two years.

        I started at another company where “bonuses have historically been 100%” only to hit the first time they were 80%, then 25% and never recovered.

        I was at a third company that loaded me up with stock options, only to have a purchase price that was $20 over the current market value and it never came close again.

        Fuck all that.

  • CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8 hours

    During COVID: we made record profits!!! But we can’t afford to give anyone raises

    During AI: We spent too much money on tokens. So we can’t afford to give anyone raises.

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5 hours

      Its been every year since I’ve been aware of the concept

      Company newsletter : Fantastic news everyone! We’ve broken the record for highest profit growth again and we couldnt have done it withou5 your help! Here’s to another amazing year!

      Meeting a week later : its no secret the economy is in trouble, and we’re not immune either, there will be no bonuses or raises, and we will have to start looking at cutbacks

  • drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8 hours

    Yet our economy is now entirely wrapped up in the circular billing these companies are doing. The next 10 years is gonna suck

      • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5 hours

        I think it’s going to be way faster than 10 years for some companies. 1-2 for a lot of them. Prices just went up for the first time, and they’re going to get higher before the bubble pops.

      • cecilkorik@piefed.ca
        English
        6 hours

        I agree. The great depression was over in about 10 years, but that was with honestly, pretty good management and some rather revolutionary political ideas. That isn’t going to happen this time. This rebuilding of basic foundational issues of national identity and civilization is going to go deep, if it gets accomplished successfully at all. Buckle up, it’s going be a bumpy ride and I don’t know what it’s going to look like on the other side, I just know where we gotta get to and it doesn’t look like there’s any nice roads to get there.

  • TheJesusaurus@piefed.caEnglish
    10 hours

    We’re responsible for all their bad financial decisions and reap none of the benefits on occasions where these morons somehow make money despite themselves because of the ungodly momentum of this dumbass system