I'm probably missing big context, but something that has bothered me for decades is seeing photos/descriptions of old companies that had entire departments of people doing a task - stuff like "computing" where there'd be a room of people with slide rul...
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I'm probably missing big context, but something that has bothered me for decades is seeing photos/descriptions of old companies that had entire departments of people doing a task - stuff like "computing" where there'd be a room of people with slide rules, etc.
The company was able to afford employing all those people and still make a profit.
But now that department of people is one Excel spreadsheet and somehow the company is still trying to cut costs, downsize, and avoid hiring at all costs.
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@bigzaphod The world has gotten greedy with capitalism some would say.
All those C-suite fellas getting paid more than they should and other companies following the same pattern. They claim they won't find "qualified" executives if they don't match salaries.
And here we are with Mozilla laying off 30% of their staff while the top person continues with their high salary.
Humans remember and these corporations will pay for it in the end. We have seen large corporations fail in the past.
