Comment on Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 6 months agoIt’s a common practice for companies to lay off high priced employees and then post those jobs for a lower amount. Why would they go back? If they’re smart they won’t. But some people need a job—at least until they can find another job.
It’s a bad practice either way, because these employees won’t ever feel their job is secure again, and that makes them care less about how the company does… as it should.
It blew me away when I met these people. These real “keep your head down” folks.
When my company laid people off, and then did the shitty thing of rehire them back at a freelancing level, one gal cried tears of happiness that she was given another chance.
I just dont understand it. Like going back to your abuser.
applepie@kbin.social 6 months ago
Did they not get severance?
I highly doubt these are generic wage slaves, I am would assume they can get jobs else where?
If they can't negotiate a fat raise under these circumstances, I am not really sure these people can negotiate at all lol
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 6 months ago
You’d be surprised how many people lack negotiation skills. They think whatever is offered is what they get. I’ve coached many coworkers on how to play hardball with a smile.
applepie@kbin.social 6 months ago
chad... good. plebs helping plebs fuck daddy :D
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Damn right. I love my company, but we have the money to pay well. I don’t want anyone working with me who feels like they are underpaid. We moved offices and it became a much longer commute for one of our juniors. I kept harassing my manger to give him a bump for the effort. He wouldn’t have taken the job with that commute, so we had to sweeten it for him. My manager said “his review is 6 months away” and I said “it’s not a raise, it’s for the inconvenience to his life.” Got him 10%—and got none of the credit, haha. But that’s okay, I feel good.