A Grinning DM
[warning: ranting about layoffs]
A Grinning DM
THREE of my friends have been laid off this week, what the FUCK is going on?
A Grinning DM
I was laid off almot exactly a year ago myself, and it just seems like I hear about this happening constantly the last few years?
A Grinning DM
Like there is zero stability for people under 50
A Grinning DM
It feels like a concerted effort to fuck us over
A Grinning DM
Apparently a lot companies are doing it because they are expecting another recession?
A Grinning DM
Hey you know what would cause a recession?
A Grinning DM
FUCKING OVER EVERYONE’S FINANCIAL STABILITY
A Grinning DM
Who is going to buy your shit if you’re making a concerted effort to make sure none of us have enough fucking money to live on?
A Grinning DM
Gods fucking damnit
Tillie
A Grinning DM
Seriously, sometimes it feels like they are TRYING to recreate the conditions of the French Revolution
A Grinning DM
Just making as much of the populace as angry and desperate as possible
A Grinning DM
Like, doesn’t seem like a smart game plan, my dudes
A Grinning DM
Are you just trying to see what it takes to ignite a modern storming of the proverbial Bastille?
A Grinning DM
Testing out the theory that that can’t happen in the modern world?
Tillie
That's the american way of doing it. hire and fire, and where people switch jobs like every 2 years.
Tillie
I am in germany, and I am in my first job, for 23 years now.
Tillie
America is the land of freedom only for straight white christian elderly rich men, for no one else.
Tillie
Dont know how different it is in Canada, maybe move, if you can.
Pteryx
The US used to have such a thing as a career too, but...
Pteryx
That was decades ago.
𝖂𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊𝕱𝖚𝖗𝖇𝖞𝕭𝖆𝖇𝖞❓
geeeez three of us were laid off this week? :c
A Grinning DM
𝖂𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊𝕱𝖚𝖗𝖇𝖞𝕭𝖆𝖇𝖞❓
: yeah 
𝖂𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊𝕱𝖚𝖗𝖇𝖞𝕭𝖆𝖇𝖞❓
UGH
Dr. Yubsie
staffing costs go down, line go up!
Dr. Yubsie
there was a manager at general electric who figured out that if he laid off a bunch of staff, his division looked more profitable and eventually he made CEO based on line go up and it spread
Dr. Yubsie
his name was Jack Welch and he became CEO in... well do you want to guess what year it might have been?
A Grinning DM
I could not guess, no. I looked it up and it said he became CEO in 1981
Dr. Yubsie
Aka the year Reagan was elected 
A Grinning DM
Ah
𝖂𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊𝕱𝖚𝖗𝖇𝖞𝕭𝖆𝖇𝖞❓
fucking reagan