thought Fluff was the resident footmaster??

He's my Bebop, and I'm his Rocksteady

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/34/f6...2d64fb06dd.jpg

After all these years... I think I now understand the reasoning behind the ThighMaster.

http://f3metro.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TM.jpg

I too am a professional foot user.

real good friend of mine that I work with got let go yesterday. she'd been with the company for 14 years but my guess is she became too expensive to keep. they hired a new guy out of the blue a week ago and were cagey about why (our team certainly didn't need another person). guess that's it

As a worker, I encourage you not to use the language of ownership unless you’re certain it accurately depicts what happened. Was keeping your friend in their employ actually going to sink the company? Was it a decision made out of absolute necessity or out of greed and selfishness? And I’m sure this last one hasn’t missed you but is this what waits in store for you?

Ninetales sounded pretty clearly bitter and angry about this so "she became too expensive to keep" doesn't sound like a neutral statement.

It still serves to justify the decision.

it's been something that's been quietly happening here over the past year or so. there haven't been "layoffs", but long term employees have been disappearing into the night at a faster rate. My director (accidentally, I think) mentioned to me that it was specifically a cost cut. And I mean im not sure there's any other inference with it not being a "firing for cause".

The thing is, looking at it in a vacuum it makes sense. Someone makes 75% of another in the same position it's an easy call. But the company is very linear and already worries about employee retention so this is, from my pov, a bad precedent to be setting. you just work long enough here to be replaceable and even if you're good, moving up is difficult due to the current structure. I've recommended changes in that regard, but it's died with my director

As for me, I'll likely be fine. Unrelated to all this going down, I have an interview next week, and have been slowly job hunting elsewhere anyways. The job itself has just been a placeholder until I find something better

not happy about it but not surprised. it's unfortunate because in my eyes these types of decisions are more optics than actual problem solving.

Shockingly bean counting is common sense and treating people like human beings is unthinkable.