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Previous job. They sold off our main product in one industry so they could focus on the more demanding other product for another industry. The first product end users actually wanted. The second product, end users did not want it, but the manufacturers did... because it gave them all that wonderful spying on you data to sell. Then the company died during the shutdowns. The stupid apps they gave people didn't entice anyone to use them.

Working in a hotel restaurant, they mentioned offhandedly that the restaurant lost $10K every month, but that didn't matter because we were there not to make money, but as an amenity for the hotel guests.

Probably meant to make us feel secure on our jobs as business slowed; actually made us feel like we didn't matter and the hotel didn't care about how busy we were. Like, we got paid by the hotel but the majority of our income was still tips, and tips are based on sales, so the hotel not caring about our sales meant they didn't care about our income, either.

I wasn't there much longer.

Followed government pay guidelines and froze pay for 12 fucking years.

Gave the C suite the highest performance rating possible after laying off like 20% of employees.

They killed the canteen. The food went from bearable to shit. That was their way of nudging employees to quit.

Pretty sure if any employees of oceangate are on here they will win this one. Their boy Stockton speedran that shit.

I'll never forget the day they wheeled the beer fridge out of the office.

Hired a contractor to lead the IT department. Months later, said contractor outsourced us to another company and promptly left.

They didn't even have the guts to do it themselves.

Company started a commission structure promotion for an upsell add-on. Two weeks in they retroactively changed the commission to decrease the payout. Most people didn't realize this but I did the math and showed every manager I knew that if this wasn't fixed they would destroy all integrity in any future sales programs and people would start jumping ship. Told them that I would be among the first and that thanks to having half the local office on my Facebook friends list I would have zero issues telling everyone why.

With very little fanfare and no apology they reversed the new policy within three days, record speed for a company that size. One of the managers pulled me aside to let me know they couldn't say anything previously but I was absolutely right. I told them they were a spinless coward* for not saying anything earlier but I understood the need to protect their paycheck.

After that I mentioned to the people that would have been most impacted that they dodged a bullet and they didn't know what I was talking about. I explained the change and unchange. They double checked the math and were pissed that they didn't see the scam earlier. Most of them were gone within a few months because they didn't trust the company anymore even though the company fixed it.

• this person learned very quickly that I would read the birthday card and toss it in the trash. They started signing them with "you can throw this away now". They once said they really appreciated that I never once even pretended to not tell the truth.

I work retail in a place which was a pretty chill. But lately management has been making minute changes, tiny ones to solidify their management dynamic. We used to wear any hats we wanted (provided they were tasteful and didnt have a competing brand but everything else was fair) but now we can't wear any headware. We used to wear personal pins, and yes some of us were a little political in our pin choices, but mostly it was happy fun nerd nonsense. But the pins had to go. Then visible stickers on things. So basically you come to work in only company designated attire now. They are also making changes to how we can personalize our breakroom which is a long tradition in the company.

Limiting how many positive yearly reviews managers are allowed to give out. Not M$ but glad it's finally in the news. The employees find out how the system works fast, no matter how secret they tried to keep it.

Meetings.

Installed tracker on our phones, trucks and Verizon dashcam tattlers