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Meta and Salesforce are looking to re-hire some workers they just laid off. It's putting those people in an awkward spot
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Salesforce told Bloomberg it expects to hire in areas like sales, engineering, and data cloud product teams — and said the new workers will help grow the company's AI business to draw further investments.
Salesforce execs, and Benioff in particular, have over the years encouraged workers to view their colleagues and the company itself as "Ohana," a Hawaiian term referring to family.
Earlier this year, the company — under pressure from activist investors to boost growth and margins — said it would step up its focus on profitability and efficiency.
One Reddit user, in late July, asked for advice on whether to return to a former employer that had laid the person off only to turn around weeks later and offer a management position in a different division.
The person, who'd already started another, less-lucrative job, faced a dilemma: "The company laid me off not too long ago so I obviously have reservations," the user wrote.
Sucher said those workers who do decide to give it another go with a former employer are likely going to want to know what a company's strategy is so that it doesn't find itself once again cutting staff.
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For me it was this:
Any company that tries to pull that type of psychological shit is just looking to take advantage of workers.
You're missing out then. AI tech jobs might as well be fucking voodoo to the suits still. If you can write a basic pytorch app, you can get paid a huge amount of money to do very little work at the moment.