RE: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/116439500460485277
Somehow I have a feeling it’s more like a ‘reset’
A reset of the job markets, mass layoffs while CEOs get massive pay packages, stock and investors are driven up by the ‘savings’ and later on when people are ‘desperate enough’ they get rehired for a fraction of the previous pay
Fuck corpo assholes
For what I can remember, mass layoffs always was something bad for a company
Something to be ashamed of, to be avoided at all costs
Nowadays it’s scheduled maintenance for big companies to give the numbers a nice little boost for the top
Not always but it’s happening more and more often
A US Corporation's main objective is to produce shareholder value. It is not to make a product or to provide service to the consumer. The paradigm of capitalism is now money for nothing.
Apr 21, 2026, 12:02 AM
The VCs love to demand layoffs.
All companies are now startups, or they're targets for startup disruption.
It's time we put the whole corporate idea back on the back shelf and started supporting each other.
Once upon a time Hewlett Packard upper management took large pay cuts to make the smaller pay cuts for workers more palatable -- all so they could retain their work force. And it was considered good, because it avoided re-training and/or trying to re-hire people later, and made people more loyal.
The first sign I saw that all was not well was that one of the ten company values (which really were values, like giving back to the community, valuing workers, ...) was "Growth". And even the naive young person I was then saw that thinking you should always grow was problem.
The second was when they announced that because maintenance was not really a "core competency" they were "outsourcing" cleaning and maintenance (implying that "those" workers were not really valued).
Now it's just another company. Or rather, just ~10 other companies (because that was better for the stock price).
Apr 20, 2026, 11:56 PM@stux yup, that is what I'm thinking. Why I'm depressed.
@grrrr_shark It's just.. supermarkets won't even hire me.. im almost ready to go back to McDonalds if they'll have me
Apr 21, 2026, 12:02 AM@stux :( everything is so deeply fucked. Solidarity.
@stux and fuck this guy for reposting from bluesky. I filter it from my feeds but apparently it makes its way through anyway.
@ranx @stux
tl;dr - RB Reich Considered Harmful.
The bsky screenshots all have the date and time removed. They can be in dark or light mode.
The lack of alt text is a feature, luring us into giving rage bait posts more traffic on the Fediverse. Every one of them has at least one reply about the lack of alt text.
Probably an intern is putting more work into making these posts less accessible. On purpose.
He doesn't interact here, his linktree doesn't link here.
I blocked him. Less effort.
@dec23k @stux I've been thinking of blocking him as well. Also, I noticed that most of the accounts with a huge amount of followers just post and post and post again but never interact with others so fuck them. They just use the fediverse as another sound box because... WHY NOT 🤷🏻♂️ <edit> oh, good! With the block the quotes go away, nice.
@stux @ranx
His bsky posts are mostly text-only. If he could just post the exact same text on Fedi, *as text*, there would be no need for any alt text on most of his posts.
And no need for other users to do unpaid work and helpfully provide the missing alt text.
Even if the current approach is fully automated, it's a lot of extra work. And a lot of wasted image storage on Fed OH NOW I GET IT!
edit: I was joking about the wasted image storage.