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Comment on Meta and Salesforce are looking to rehire some workers they just laid off. It's putting those people in an awkward spot.

drdabbles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

It’s not an awkward spot, it’s a spot where you now know your bargaining power and you’re going to make them pay literally for what they’ve put you through. They need the employees, so the employees can dictate their demands if they negotiate wisely. If these companies are willing to screw you over, then you should be willing to drill them for oil when you get the chance. Screw them. Hard.

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jonne@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah, this is where you ask double your salary to come back, unless you really like your replacement job.

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JasSmith@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This is the best job market in my lifetime. This must have been what it was like for boomers when they were younger. The economy continues to grow, and at the same time, boomers and gen x continue to retire in ever greater numbers. Demand for labour is sky high. The only risk is leaders jacking up immigration to suppress wages and worker bargaining power.

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- drdabbles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m in my 40s and this for sure is not the best job market in the US in my lifetime. So I can’t imagine what it was like for my parents.
  
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stevehobbes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I would bet most of the employees they want aren’t the ones they let go, but probably a lot more who went somewhere else.

Lots of good employees leave because even with a great boss, if your boss isn’t getting promoted, you might not have a path for promotion without lateraling into something you don’t like, with new people and new relationships who might be worse.

If you’re going to do all that, you might just do it in a new company.

It’s always easier for companies to richly reward new hires vs existing employees.

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- drdabbles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’ll be honest with you, I’ve stayed at some bad jobs because of great bosses. As long as pay keeps increasing, promotions are an easy thing to not care about. But the second my boss sucks, or my value isn’t appreciated, I start looking for a new job. At my previous employer, I stuck around for 18 months to try to help guide a new management team that absolutely sucked. They didn’t figure it out, so I’m gone. But I had been with that company for 6 years through good and bad because previous leaders were fantastic.
  
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