I overheard a phone call between my project manager & my CEO yesterday in the office. This is what my project manager said on the phone: "I find it weird that we sell stuff we are not sure if it is exists and if it exists, we are not sure how it works"

"No worries, that’s how big companies work."

@Lensflare Well, this is not a big company. We don't even have 50 employees :')

@wojtek322 then it‘s time to worry :)

@Lensflare Oh no, i'm already past that point in this company and simply don't care what happens to this company. I'm at this point baffled how this company still stays afloat

This company waves so many red flags you would assume it is part of the USSR.

@wojtek322 Worked somewhere with exactly 50 people making a revenue of 1.000.000 per employee per month. Having less employees is actually the dream. A famous Jewish insult is: "I wish you many employees". The company I just talked about did everything to stay under 51 employees because with more than 50, certain laws would be applied. We worked to death there, but everyone did and it actually felt quite good and there was some real brother/sisterhood going on in the company. We had each others back. You won't call in sick for having a hangover, it would make you the biggest bastard ever, someone else would seriously suffer from it. Believe it or not, good times. It felt great working with such motivated people. After that company, no other company felt that hard working anymore. Even worse, didn't take a lot of companies serious anymore. We deployed on fridays so you have the weekend to fix the bugs if you f up. Result: nearly no bugs. Issues had to be fixed in 15m. We did.

@retoor that makes sense. More employees means more money to share.

The bad guys in action movies always kill their partners in the end so that they don‘t need to share.
I wonder how long it will take companies to adopt this strategy.

@Lensflare meh, they are already doing mass layoffs right? That's kinda killing partners.

I'm anticipating the project manager to get fired for questioning his higher authority

my typical experience

@Lensflare they already do that? that's like one of the memes of overworking

under 50 to avoid laws sounds nice. where I live if you go over 50 the language police will come after you if French isn't the most spoken language at your workplace, and I refuse to do French because they're so forceful about it. so I can only work for companies under 50 people anyway

now... if only I hadn't been half the company's revenue and / or others appreciated what I had done. but unfortunately that was not the case. work felt like slavery, and thankless at that, with the more money I made them and the better I made their business the worse they treated me. golden goose says eat shit then

@jestdotty your comment is like 10% related to what I‘ve said and I can‘t make sense of what you are saying with the rest.

Just in case that you took me seriously:
Killing people in order to avoid paying them was a joke.

@Lensflare that superiority complex must be quite a weight to carry 🙄