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My employer was the only one left in our space that hadn’t been bought by private equity. We had a massive advantage in the market with an excellent reputation. The owner decided to retire after Covid but he had no savings because he’d kinda just thrown his entire life into the company. He was no pauper but he didn’t have shit for retirement. So he sold the company for enough money to set him up for the next 30 years and bounced. Our healthcare, which was better than any healthcare package I’d ever seen, was the first thing to go. We went through a new CEO every year for 3 years and continued acquiring companies and it’s so fucking corporatized now. My job involves so much meta-job tracking and bullshit now and we’ve really just lost a certain something about the work culture that I loved.
I once walked into the old CEO’s office and yelled at him for half an hour about some bullshit policy they were trying to push that was gonna pile a bunch of extra work on my department. He took it and rolled it back that afternoon. I’d never be able to get away with that now. Everyone from the mid level managers and up is playing the dumb power games that drive me nuts where no one ever says what they mean or mean what they say. It’s like everyone’s so scared of losing their lackeys that they don’t let themselves actually give a shit about how the company works. Something something Graeber.
it's funny how most pro-capitalist simps imagine your initial experience with the old CEO as the "real capitalism" that is missing somehow. they want to put the genie back in the bottle.
..not realizing it's no different then remembering the "one good Emperor/king/dynasty" golden age between all the horrible baby butchering fiddle while it burns types and then the endless stream of royal failsons
obvious solution is to democratize it all but all of us here know what that actually means
I think this is spot on. When you put that much unchecked power in one person’s hands, it’s just a dice roll. And with the class interests of workers and owners being opposed, it’s a weighted dice roll. I happened to get lucky that my despot was able to look past the next quarter’s profits. And now that private equity has fully taken over our industry, there’s no dice roll left. Everyone’s getting fucked no matter who they work for.