This Is What a Dystopian Future Looks Like...

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg Fired 900 unsuspecting employees all at once over a Zoom call, about 9% of their staff. Not affecting their valuation of 6.9 billion dollar. Now that's efficiency, baby.
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[@Leonaza7]

So glad he didn’t cry and was able to stay strong while basically ruining 900 lives. Thoughts and prayers to him 🙄

[@therealkunr5147]

Bring on the GOP midterms!

[@visiongt3944]

And he retracted his decision after the media coverage 😆

[@roo5940]

Peace and love, he held it together 🤡

[@BagOCheetos]

@@visiongt3944 Where is this written?

[@joelt9034]

It's good he did not have a dog with him and had to take in a deep breath

[@trappedsouls2125]

He’s literally so brave firing almost a thousand people during the holidays, I’m surprised he kept his composure #staystrongking

[@fefelarue2948]

Thoughts and prayers.

[@anmolt3840051]

Hindu festival season is over for the year

[@Sugarman96]

I hope he pulls through, I could tell it was difficult for him the end the livelihood of 900 people.

[@PittsburghSonido]

@@anmolt3840051 Lmao what

[@anmolt3840051]

@@PittsburghSonido Yeah, Hindu festivals basically wrap up by mid-November

[@t_ylr]

I love that he wanted to personally deliver the message, but also set up the camera 50 feet away. Like you know they probably got an email in the last month referencing employees as family lol.

[@lietz13]

My past employer was just like family. When they owed me money I had to get them in front of a judge.

[@TheAllRounderMemes]

we live in a society. an increasingly dystopian one, however...

[@jackwinford4400]

Fair enough

[@sylvesterthekiibokinnie1637]

Dam....

[@just_a_turtle_chad]

Anyways... You're jobless now

[@davesprivatelounge]

... and I talk about this all the time

[@Jonqen]

The people need the Joker

[@hodgi3]

CEOs are psychopaths, you can't change my mind

[@saalllmmmmaaaa]

thats actually really common. and i mean it quite literally. CEOS are actual legit psychos: the type that feels no emotion

[@N00B283]

I believe there’s an old TED conference about this

[@Artemis_666]

I would never say that all people of a certain group act and behave the same, however in the case of CEO's its the psychos who will rise to the top sooo....

[@beansfebreeze]

Yeah, those traits have been recorded time and time again to be extremely advantageous for CEOs yet most people think they're super cool and regular people

[@chiangkaishrek5123]

There’s been studies into this and I believe they’ve found most ceos to be sociopaths(could be wrong tho, I read about this over 2 years ago), the lack of empathy makes it much easier for you to tread on others to achieve your goals.

[@j-dubb614]

25 million dollar holiday pay. Dude totally earned that. He worked so hard every day and deserves a BONUS payday of TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS. A man could bust his ass every day doing hard manual labor from the age of 16 to 65 for 8-10 hours a day and never make anywhere near what this guy got as a CHRISTMAS BONUS. There is no such thing as a "Meritocracy"

[@pismodude2]

You could literally spend a decade or more educating yourself, become a neurosurgeon, and spend 50 years working, and still not have 25 million. Does anyone think this guy is smarter or harder working than our best doctors? You can really see Capitalism falling apart when you compare the most skilled and educated people to the scam artists known as CEOs.

[@Purriah]

@@pismodude2 damn. Yeah you’d have to make 500k a year and work 50 years to match that

[@Bokmoh]

We're fucked y'all

[@pismodude2]

@@Purriah Not to mention the enormous costs of the profession. Malpractice insurance can be $100k per year or more for neurosurgeons. No chance in hell any CEO deserves in one year what neurosurgeons earn in a lifetime of working to save lives. Especially not mister "I'm firing you over Zoom, hope I don't cry". Imagine being a doctor and seeing children with cancer die every year, then hearing this CEO who makes your lifetime income in a year, whine about needing to lay people off.

[@silotx]

@@pismodude2 Its not capitalism anymore its Techno-Feudalism here is an interesting article diem25.org/techno-feudalism-taking-over/

[@vxxiii4160]

Back then when Nintendo was going through an absolute dogshit of a time with the WiiU sales, Satoru Iwata himself cut his pay in order to not fire Nintendo's workers or at least have the least number of firings. If there were more bosses that were less of mini-kings and more of actual _leaders_ who cared for their workers, these kind of shit wouldn't happen. But no, let's keep the upper ups well paid, fuck the people that actually keep the company alive.

[@Sugarman96]

RIP Satoru Iwata

[@Jonqen]

After him Nintendos gone to shit with greed

[@voinekku]

I agree that is sweet, but really the owners are the true culprit, not the management. Owners have all the power in the company (including the ability to change the manager at the whim), whereas the management is just a mediator between the will of the owners and the material reality of the company's concrete actions and decisions.

[@TheChilaxicle]

That is a common Japanese practice, which can be partially attributed to their far more collective culture, instead of the American individualistic one. Capitalism in Japan is fascinating to me because it is evil in different ways, but evil nonetheless

[@Aloneattheparty727]

good take man absoulutely agree😤😤

[@tylerhackner9731]

While he ruined basically 900 lives, all he could think about was the toll it would take on him and how he cried

[@MrLFJ7]

Drying his tears with 100 bills

[@MrDesmondPot]

It’s the mark of a truly unpleasant soul. “You are wrong for making me have to consider feeling any shame for this shitty thing I’m doing. How dare you?!”

[@james_chatman]

Ghoul Energy

[@vulpixelful]

This CEO got $25mill as a bonus in cash (not equities), and the CFO got $1mill/year raise as _base_ pay in 2020. Something tells me they could have been more efficient without firing people. The fact that the cash infusion was conditional on firing people is not really relevant, cutting liabilities could have also been done by not making it rain on the c-suite.

[@nfzeta128]

Yea, and with people like that chatter it's telling. I don't think they realised that this wasn't about actual company 'survival'. so much as further maximising prosperity and growth.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

How these companies have record profits and still somehow feel the need to fire hundreds or thousands of employees is beyond my understanding

[@kiwi6147]

MORE PROFITS BABY

[@Clarkzer0]

It's a desire for infinite, exponential, limitless, short term growth on a planet with finite resources, repercussions, limits, and generations. It's delusional.

[@SevenHunnid]

People tell me I’m dumb because i quit my job to smoke weed on my KZbin channel full time & do what makes me happy !

[@STHLM11433]

@@SevenHunnid you are

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

@@SevenHunnid No one cares

[@JosephClatterbuck]

This happened to me. Nov 2020, company bought and closed a competitor for $44b. Feb 2021 me and ~600 others were terminated (admittedly with 2 weeks notice and a severance) March 2021, the CEO got a 25% raise, from $12m to $15m.

[@implodingsoftly]

so effed up

[@venomg5799]

What a shit hole country we live in. I'm sick of it.

[@Cadrid]

@Joseph Clatterbuck What company? How are the rest of us supposed to hold them accountable if you’re running interference for your former employer by not naming them?

[@JosephClatterbuck]

@Cadrid I'll check the terms of my severance, but chances are, if you own stocks or have a 401k, you've given this company money.

[@stevonwhite8933]

@Kohai All your comments scream *terrible* human being…

[@russbus3930]

"The last time I did it, I cried. This time I hope to be stronger." Is this guy for real?

[@leanysealvarado7499]

Unfortunately, yes.

[@nfzeta128]

It's his dream to be a truly infallible and coldhearted CEO, he's not quite there yet. Thing is, he may not have even cried before because of the harm he did to people but rather because he knows people will hate him after and doesn't like that feeling of being blamed.

[@chedny4278]

I cant tell if he was trolling. If he wasn't, then he is extremely divorced from reality.

[@Junebug89]

Takes a real narcissist to make something like this about himself

[@RedstonePower123]

that mustve been the first emotion he ever felt

[@scoobyskreep3518]

I can’t wait to scrap and save for years in order to work my way up to a modest home with a modest job and a family to feed so I can be fired over a zoom call

[@trappedinamerica7740]

Well you might be able to rent a modest home and then get evicted.

[@driphearts8035]

I remember when my dad was forced by his boss to fire 50 of the employees under my father's management. My dad has always pushed for being as kind and as compassionate as possible, and having to actively fire those people for the sake of company budget fucked him up for awhile. He still feels guilty about having to ruin the lives of 50 employees that he took the time to get to know. This CEO felt no remorse, though.

[@Ashuowl]

"Last time I did this I cried" He has fired 900 people over 1 single zoom call before? What exactly has he done "before"? The fuck

[@meterdoogles]

So, if the company was doing so good early in the year, but now its not, isn't that his fault? Shouldn't he be fired?

[@hiimelfo]

They shave the workers off because it puts more money on the board immediately*. For share holders. He took a 25 million dollar bonus last year. Just capitalism. Pretty standard in America. Wonder why so many Americans left their jobs with amazing bosses like scrooges like this guy..Bob cratchet would be pissed.

[@yaboiiity6067]

@@hiimelfo that’s so sickening. Like how much money do ppl need i will never understand the greed

[@msgirly6827]

@@yaboiiity6067 'how much money do people need' me when i look at the networth of jeff bezos and elon musk combined

[@DiddyBohlen]

@@yaboiiity6067 it’s never enough. Money ultimately doesn’t bring happiness if you can’t buy anything meaningful with it (anymore). So they focus on making more and more trying to reach a point where they can satisfy their ego.

[@meterdoogles]

@@hiimelfo I am accountant, I understand why they do it. In the video though he speaks about how the company was “flying high” early in the year and now they aren’t. He is implying they aren’t doing well. I’m saying that is his fault, he should be fired…

[@Holden.Tudiks]

"the last time [I fired this many people] I cried..." BIIIG DOUBT

[@overlookers]

The last time I did this, I cried f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶d̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶o̶n̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶h̶o̶o̶k̶e̶r̶'̶s̶ ̶f̶a̶c̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶I̶ ̶g̶o̶t̶ ̶a̶ ̶b̶o̶n̶u̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶u̶l̶t̶i̶-̶m̶i̶l̶l̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶f̶i̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶p̶o̶o̶r̶ ̶p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶

[@maybeasinner8007]

well maybe he didn't lie, tears of happiness that he'll get more money

[@dhiaa9082]

He cried tears of joy

[@nfzeta128]

He cried because people were mean to him after about him firing them.

[@doublechindoge7]

_he wanted to be a _*_[[BIG_SHOT]]_*

[@MarkSoupial]

900 livelihoods to appease the demands of 9 shareholders for one quarter.

[@trappedinamerica7740]

to give them money that is a drop in the bucket to what they already have.

[@ZERO_O7X]

Shout out to the editors who make these vids so easy to watch minus the stunlocks. Y'all are amazing at your jobs and I love you. ❤️

[@andreabenton7798]

Giving out some love to the editors brother!❤️❤️

[@Jonqen]

What is stunlocks?

[@itemushmush]

what is stunlocks

[@dkrmana]

@@Jonqen abilities that make you unable to move in videogames are stuns. in some cases, someone can stun you indefinitely, making you unable to play the game. that's a stunlock. hasan gets stuck trying to argue with chat basically lol

[@Jonqen]

@@dkrmana Gamers really rule the world nowadays. You would be beaten up in my days if you used videogame lingo irl

[@ranchpanda7932]

Reducing redundancy and maximizing efficiency is just a fancy way of saying, "this job really should be done by 2 people, but we can get away with forcing 1 person to break themselves to get it done."

[@bananian]

If workers aren't stressed out by their workload, they clearly need more work.

[@alter_ech0]

Who doesn't love 60+ hour work weeks, mandatory overtime, and having to check your pay stub every week just to be sure you're actually getting the correct amount of overtime pay, that's America baby!

[@thechief043]

That's so fucking on point. Even in engineering, when we have senior engineers retiring, they push that work on to more people; they don't want to promote people. It's insane.

[@nfzeta128]

That's what they mean by slacking. If you can actually do your job and have downtime in an 8 hour day, then that's slacking to them.

[@trappedinamerica7740]

@@nfzeta128 I don't even believe that 900 people were only working 2 hours a day and getting away with it until they had to fire them all. Also, it just happens to be at the same time they need to "cut redundancy". Wouldn't they have talked to at least some of the employees about this? They didn't. It's just an excuse because of the public pressure.

[@nightshark1156]

Sits down at breakfast table Opens zoom Fires 900 people Refuses to elaborate #sigmamalegrindset

[@Leonaza7]

At least they didn’t waste gas driving to office. May they find a better job and better working conditions

[@ThaTruFily]

[@dreamofsprings]

They still have to get in to the office and get their things

[@SpiceIntolerance]

Some will I’m sure! Knowing that your competing against 899 other people that just lost their job in the same market must be a bitch though lol

[@bacicinvatteneaca]

Reminder that ACTUALLY combative unions can overturn these decisions by indefinitely blocking access of goods to the company. Round the clock pickets that last as long as necessary, until everyone is rehired.

[@Praisethesunson]

Only time I saw that work in the U.S was at a hospital. Admin fired a union steward nurse. 10 local priests showed up and held vigils and sermons in the hospital demanding she not be fired. The priests walked her back in the building and she kept her job. Really good stuff.

[@bubbie2982]

I love when jobs ask for efficiency, but when efficiency is getting tasks done in 2hours rather than 8.

[@The_Legend_Himself]

Tell me about it. 10 hour shifts per Christmas getting my ass best at work in a warehouse for the same fucking garbage wage despite doing 3x the work.

[@Purriah]

@@The_Legend_Himself damn fr?? All the warehouses in my area are paying extra right now. Where I work we’re getting an extra $3 an hour

[@maxpelaez4955]

@@Purriah that's still fucking pathetic God damn.

[@Purriah]

@@maxpelaez4955 based on what exactly? That means it’s $22 an hour for the starting pay at a mentally and physically easy job. It’s just boring for some people.

[@alter_ech0]

@@Purriah Is your warehouse unionized? Because your anecdote is the exception, not the norm in most parts of the country. They usually pay workers what they can get away with and constantly churn through new employees with huge workloads or production rates. Warehouse work is viewed by many to be a dead end job with no chance of advancement so that's why these places like Amazon and others treat their jobs like revolving doors

[@zanzibarkjella9024]

*CEO* stands for *C*an’t *E*mpathize *O*kay bye

[@BagOCheetos]

And people argue with me when I say billionaires shouldn't exist....

[@OfficialCANVAS]

You they shouldnt. They aint going to win an argument based on no facts

[@rosestrohm7986]

These people arent billionares

[@BagOCheetos]

@@rosestrohm7986 Vishal Garg is a billionaire.

[@KevinBelmontLuna]

We don't need money for food, health and housing, but the CEO needs a new yacht to live. This is *poggers* in the the wrong way possible!

[@stuffwithsoph8264]

"Lemme just ruin 900 peoples holiday season during a pandemic real quick so i can buy my 6th house rq"

[@finalsix7195]

Look at this man, he's so caring that he fired people before and cried, so now he is firing 900 people out of love

[@rache8323]

I hate working for corporate assholes who don't give af about employees, and gradually steal your soul. But, I genuinely like working. I like being productive, helping others, creating things. If I don't do stuff and improve myself, I get hella depressed. I like work when it's not crushing my soul and shitting on me/disrespecting my Input about the efficiency of my own job.

[@samlfarrar]

100% agree, I am lucky I can work and have a comfortable life outside of work. So many people can't though and it really is sould crushing for them and things need to change.

[@Froggy77100]

Well said...

[@TheLazyass111]

THIS. This is what all the "ACTUALLY" neolibs and conservicucks miss EVERY SINGLE TIME. It's not that we don't want to work. We want to be productive members of society, but we want to also be able to live our lives and enjoy our friends and families. We want to be paid fairly and not live our lives in fear of homelessness and medical bankruptcy

[@RikkiJVelez]

Simps for capitalism would say he “worked hard” for that 25 million dollar bonus and deserves it.

[@trappedinamerica7740]

well he worked so hard that he created a viral video that made the company look horrible. CEO fail

[@tk5800thesecond]

Unions can also prevent being fired for shitty reasons as well. at least in australia

[@wesley4122]

the US has like a 12% unionization rate for jobs across the board. it's so bad lol

[@Thegr8MC]

"It's been a challenging decision to make", "I'm so sorry to have to do this", "This will hurt me more then it will hurt you". These are all basically gaslighting phrases. Whether said by my parents right before they beat me or by your multi-millionaire boss before laying you off, it's nothing more then an attempt to make you feel like it's your fault for being the victim of someone who holds immensely more power and control over the situation then you do. Oh boy, he even talks about how much he's crying over this decision! Yeah, I'm sure the rich as fuck CEO is crying immensely more then the piss poor minimum wage workers who probably are now terrified of being evicted or losing vital healthcare around Christmastime! Leak those crocodile tears!

[@adamk862]

BILLIONAIRE boss* :/

[@MK_ULTRA420]

One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic.

[@KittyCow]

A lot of companies do this, which is fucked up. sad part is, that this only went viral because it was a zoom video

[@redisthecoolestcolour]

Which is good. All of this shit is getting put out there.

[@nfzeta128]

Yea it went viral because of the spectacle of the insult in the WAY it was done, not the fact that it was done in the first place.

[@trappedinamerica7740]

@@nfzeta128 He failed at his CEO job in this video.

[@KittyCow]

@@redisthecoolestcolour I mean it is good, but this CEO is just dumb as shit. A lot of other shady/sneaky ones will try to make it as discreet as possible

[@saininj]

Shout out to the people recording it.

[@Serioslump]

Unionise guys!! If you’re in an industry that has a union already, please join ASAP! And if not, then get to starting one!! Workplace democracy is the future of the economy, whether capitalists want it or not!!!

[@_________________142]

^

[@bodeyjensen953]

He could’ve instead just given them each a $27,000 bonus with that 25 million he got

[@Pllayer064]

Heck, they probably earned less than that, thus he could just give them their annual wage and still pocket a comfortable amount for himself.

[@maybemablemaples2144]

I'm honestly surprised he wasn't getting a handie under the desk or that he was wearing pants at all with how horned up he was to fire all those people.

[@grumpybear123]

FYI, depending on the state, your employer HAS to give you a 30 day notice when they lay you off. They get around this by paying you a one month severance with zero notice. This happened to me.

[@LovelyAngel.]

In my country the notice period is 2 weeks if you work for less than 3 months, 30 days if you work between 3 months and a year and 3 months if you've been working for over a year. But yeah, America is a jungle

[@tonybologna3282]

the senate works the least amount of hours for the most amount of pay.

[@judas-dk6bu]

They might have cushy jobs but the average CEO does a lot more than the average Senator day-to-day

[@brandonerick]

Careful, Chuck Schumer is a Senator.. He’s a good guy……………

[@UncleJoey]

Hire workers, Secure bag, fire staff, profit

[@mysteryyoshi4917]

Imagine not being to join the zoom call and then next day of work, you find out they fired you.

[@brianm7278]

Is it fair that the person with the shit business plan is the one who gets to fire everybody else? The company probably failed because they had him as their CEO.

[@miaconnor5767]

But it didn't even fail. They got a huge cash infusion, but decided they wanted to be able to report even higher profits for that quarter, so they fired people. It happens a lot in the game industry, and its a borderline scam anyways. Not just because of the inherent scamminess of capitalism, but because the simple truth is: You do not have 900 extra people that you don't need in a company. If you are firing 900 people, you're gonna be hiring at least another 600 once they're gone. But because they save money by firing people, they can claim bigger earnings, and get those bonuses they're promised.

[@kbucket]

this exact thing happened to my mom earlier this year, like right in the middle of covid!? are you serious?! They were a super rich, family run oil company and decided to outsource an entire department just to cut some costs - DURING COVID. They actually had my mothers supervisor work with the company that eventually outsourced them, thinking they would help them, not replace them. When the time came, after 17 years she was escorted out of the building the same day... How can these people live with themselves?

[@amberleeannalee1999]

MURIKKA is 26th in quality of life out of 40 first world countries. Our lives suck. We rank highest in healthcare costs with the worst outcomes

[@Alacard520]

This is why you should never stay at a company because you feel like family, want to be loyal or whatever bs. You are a resource and these people will discard you without a second thought. My company goes on paid break next week and instead of relaxing I'll be using that time to find a new job and hopefully turning in a 2 weeks notice as soon as I come back.

[@msgirly6827]

Yep. That family thing is a scam. Thats why i have no problems or feelings of guilt when it comes to calling in sick or asking for vacation time.

[@stuffwithsoph8264]

omg facts, dont ever get attatched because they'll fuck you the instant they can

[@nfzeta128]

Yep, the workplace is no place for feelings of community nowadays. If you don't treat the company's fortunes with the same callous as the company and those running it will treat yours then you usually get f'ed.

[@CharlieApples]

I just got fired from a $10.75/hr job that I was financially depending on to get through the end of the year because one of my managers thought I didn’t like her. They didn’t even tell me I was fired, they just stopped scheduling me and notified corporate. But not me. Two weeks before Christmas and less than three weeks before I need to pay rent. So this video couldn’t have been better timed. Happy holidays everyone.

[@comyuse9103]

well, i think it is safe to assume you, in fact, don't like her now

[@killuazoldyckhunter]

the fastest thing a rich person loses is empathy

[@vivalaleta]

Actually those without empathy see life as a game and seek money and power. Not visa versa.

[@killuazoldyckhunter]

@@vivalaleta true

[@hwiatslgeord2887]

Hasan is not rich?

[@vivalaleta]

@@hwiatslgeord2887 His wealth is completely due to his own talent. I doesn't have minions doing all the shitty jobs and receiving shitty pay.

[@hwiatslgeord2887]

@@vivalaleta i wouldnt call it talent but i get what you are saying

[@PrettyH8Mach1n3]

He came here from India at 7 with his family and moved to Queens. I hide my face in my hands at our shared experiences as people of Indian origin. I don't understand how so many Indians that come here seem to just forget the cruelty and poverty back in India and double down on exploitation. I hate it. It shouldn't be used to stereotype us but this cutthroat businessman stereotype is being used on us because of brethren like this.

[@neel.KAITH2005]

Bhai ye aap kya bol rahe ho?? Indians par ye Stereotype nahi, ye sirif Gujrati/Marwari logon pe hota hain. You don't need to be ashamed of anyhing :)

[@PrettyH8Mach1n3]

@@neel.KAITH2005 I know I shouldn't be ashamed, but the fact is that as an immigrant, the rest or the population does form opinions based on individuals they meet or know and on stereotypes. We are all flawed humans and others should know better, but they do not do better. We have to account for the reality of how people act before we expect them to listen to the angels of their better nature. I worry because this potentially ignorant majority can spread hate and readily find ways to discriminate, regardless of the word of law or whatever. They hardly care about the differences between regions so they won't apply it to a specific ethnicity within India. Still wrong go stereotype an ethnicity like this, Even if it is a well known sterotype that Gujarati businessmen are cutthroat and nickle and dime you, we shouldn't apply it to Gujarati people as a whole, and it this behavior is hardly exclusive to them. I have been considering moving back to India with my parents as my American dream has not worked out, but as you can see by my answering in English and not transliterated Hindi...I wouldn't fit in there either probably.

[@neel.KAITH2005]

@@PrettyH8Mach1n3 oh sorry, Didn't knew you were an immigrant O_O if you wanna come back here , of course you can , (Indian government has been been trying to undo the country's brain-drain, so they're pretty happy to host NRIs like you and people like you are highly respected ) as for the race topic, I just wanna let you know that even though you are partially correct, i slight disagree with you mainly, with the idea that everyone will judge based on actions of few individuals. you don't need to be anxious because even though we still have a lot to do , i have personally seen an improvement in people's attitudes towards Asians and reductions in racism(east,South-east, south Asians, everyone practically) hope you have a nice day :) kindly avoid the ignorant people

[@PrettyH8Mach1n3]

@@neel.KAITH2005 Yes, things are better than they used to be, I understand that. But without people always pushing for progress, we can easily slide back into worse policies. We see this in the US for example. Asian Americans will be a model minority, but as soon as the news focuses on covid's origins in Asia and the Chinese government, we see anti Asian sentiment against anyone that can be seen as Chinese. As soon as the news and political agitators focus on Muslims and Iran and Islamic terrorism, anyone that "passes" as Muslim sterotype, even if they are actually moderate or Hindu or Sikh, will experience anti immigrant sentiment. Our temple was vandalized like this.

[@aennaenn7468]

I'm continually surprised that these people remain amongst the living after pulling shit like this.

[@Praisethesunson]

Ditto

[@mbgal7758]

The anti work subreddit is awesome. There are so many Mr Burns’ in this country

[@daanyaalkhan4901]

Bird (e-scooter) company did the same early into Covid. Laid off 400 employees in a 2 minute Zoom call.

[@Bleats_Sinodai]

18:37 the best part of this is that sharks are actually afraid of dolphins cus they can beat 'em up, so the dude accidentally revealed that the workers have power without realizing it.

[@adr1annn129]

Meanwhile my dad here in Australia got 2 years of pay in his package.

[@trashrabbit69]

All we need now is Keanu Reeves in aviators to show up and say "in Night City, you can be cum" and we've got our completed Cyberpunk society with full disenfranchisement DLC. Wonder when the strategy guide comes out so I can afford rent.

[@mambamed8345]

Idk what this means

[@dr1flush]

I almost cried.... ... but then I laughed all the way to the bank boiii

[@CChissel]

He also increased a single employees salary from 100k+ to 1 million.

[@tylerandrews55]

The French had an answer to this.

[@aidenheffernan7556]

the killing billionaires thing that china does is low key scary though

[@neel.KAITH2005]

the famous case of the Billionaire guy that was killed (his name was Liu Han) was executed becuz he had allegedly ordered the killing of villagers who led a protest against one of his real estate projects through mercenaries.

[@cetriyasArtnComicsChannel]

On a side note I wouldn't exactly use China as an example of being humane to their public

[@Juhz0r]

Yeah, that was a bad point. The CCP disappearing bunch of billionaires “under mysterious circumstances” is not the way to go and does not lay a healthy pro-worker foundation. You need transparent courts, clear rules, and defined punishments. The CCP doesn’t have the same interests as the regular Chinese worker, and there are many other reasons why party officials would want to get rid of some powerful players, so whose to how much these killings even had to do with the regular worker.

[@goblinbabe]

So we gonna build the guillotine orrrrrr 😗

[@spacedonut8157]

They even fired Erik, my internet comment etiquette instructor.

[@howarddewing6617]

I look at you so much

[@howarddewing6617]

@@seren3797 in the walls👀

[@bonzey1171]

Two uploads in one day? It must be a christmas miracle. Thanks Himbo

[@DudesterGX]

Fun fact. The female voice over for that clip being spread around is actually dubbed over the video. It's not a live reaction at all. It's fake. Here's some proof, go to the 7:52 mark. She says something along the lines of "after all we did for the company?" right? The link below is the link to the original post with her voice. You can tell because you'll hear that same voice and sentence at around 1:06 If you skip ahead to 1:47 she says something like, "there's no way this is real" and if you look closely, the footage of the computer JUMPCUTS without any change to her voice. kzbin.info/www/bejne/naHNopWsgdCDi9k That's the video.

[@Froggy77100]

I thought I may have noticed a difference, I'll check out your link. Either way, it doesn't change how fuqed it was he fired 900 people on a zoom call, during a pandemic, right before the holidays -- while accepting a 25 million dollar bonus. He's such a POS had to leave them with that extra kick in the teeth. Well, hopefully not being that their & their entire family will no longer have benefits.

[@DudesterGX]

@@Froggy77100 oh AGREED. By no way is this an endorsement of that fucked up CEO. Fuck that guy. I just noticed that the person we were sympathizing for wasnt one of the victims but a clout chaser.

[@PigGuy2301]

This is like a scene from a dystopian film set in the year 2879

[@PyroX792]

I hired a company to fix something in my house and it cost me $250 and took an hour. I joked with the guy that I hoped they were giving him $200 an hour and he laughed uncomfortably replying "Yeah I get like nowhere close to that an hour". You know people our here starting to do this math. Why is it the company gets 94% of the money and this guy doing the actual work is walking away with 6%? It's nuts (I'm assuming they only paid him $15 an hour)

[@aspacelex]

If under this economic system they had to fire 900 workers in order to employ more workers later, then it's a bad system and the firm should be restructured into a co-op, which are way better at weathering rough spots since they split losses instead of firing people.

[@christopherpenn9283]

The chatters comment about healthcare is so true, the slavery point really became highlighted when i realized the attachment with jobs and your literal health (Healthcare) it is actually nuts that its not more of an outrage.

[@pismodude2]

It's always a good sign when your boss accepts millions, then lays off your coworkers and announces you will be hungrier.

[@chaincyclist2736]

The guys that got fired should meet up with him, y'know, in person and have what some people like to call a "chat"

[@redisthecoolestcolour]

Someone should probably tell the rich that workers banding together to present formal address of grievances is the alternative we worked out long time ago to breaking down the factory owner's front door and beating him to death in front of his family? I feel like they forgot... 🤔

[@comyuse9103]

@@redisthecoolestcolour honestly i feel like this deal isn't working out, and they clearly aren't interested in it, so maybe we should just go back to the good old days.

[@swig_gigolo]

I turned my camera on half way through lunch to tell you all your fired

[@juuk3103]

Merry Christmas! Here ya go

[@plushiie_]

No wonder US companies are doing so well, they dont have to pay for anything regarding their workers.

[@didograce3531]

I'm currently studying at NYU, and I have classmates who literally wear Balenciaga to class. I knew I felt out of place when I realized my subconscious assumption was that they were wearing Amazon/clearance knock-offs because that's the only way I could imagine affording stuff like that. Meanwhile, I scrape pennies together and have panic attacks any time I buy groceries. JFC. Point is, I'm sadly not surprised that someone who went to NYU might act with such little care for those who work under him.

[@vulpixelful]

The Evergrande thing needs its own segment. I'm curious about that take. The Chinese housing market is brutal even without Evergrande being over-leveraged. A lot of people are in danger of losing their home, besides how its employees are pretty much working for free. It's really lose-lose.

[@maybemablemaples2144]

I waiting for the other shoe to drop. The CCP is probably throwing as much money to keep shit from defaulting but with the people themselves having no capital whatsoever I'm pretty sure their housing crisis will be worse than the 2008 US one. Those Tofu Dreg projects are already dropping so that's even less living space. I highly doubt Hasan will cover anything in China though cause it's just as much of a capitalist hellhole as the US but there's so much bullshit out there he can't get a good read.

[@bananian]

@@maybemablemaples2144 Housing in China is actually pretty affordable probably because of restrictions on speculation. As soon as you cross the border into HK, you end up with 200 sq ft flats that cost a million dollars. It's all down to policy. In Singapore, everyone gets a nice flat so no one is desperate for a home and speculation is limited.

[@nfzeta128]

@@maybemablemaples2144 I don't think that China has the same problem as the US there. The owners would be allowed to fail but if things get bad enough the government there would probably just take over the business to stabilise the market. Things are bad for the owners because they're not willing to throw that much money at it, because we all know China has the money, if they wanted to. This is just the government there using their passivity in 'remedying' the situation for wealth redistribution. I mean already as said in the article the company is asking employees for loans and all they have to threaten them with is bonuses.

[@slycordd]

Babe wake up , hasan posted a new twitch clip !

[@segar004]

A mob backed union would’ve destroyed that guy.

[@vlogcity1111]

Yeah and then unions reps at the top pocket the $25mill themselves and give the employees a $3 raise over 5 years............unions don’t do what they think we do once they are too large to oversee. Who watches the watchers? When it’s past a certain size the watchers in the union pocket just as much money as the ceos and boardmembers

[@oolbie9221]

id fire my employees with birthday cards, as a show of dominance of course

[@chrisw3869]

On my next job app Reason for leaving your last job: "Fucked vibes"

[@sylvesterthekiibokinnie1637]

Bro as someone who has a lenovo pc, I feel like I got stabbed

[@Peter_739]

I only lost a little respect for Hasan because Lenovos have the nipple even on new models.

[@sylvesterthekiibokinnie1637]

@@Peter_739 I wouldn't know, I got the Gamer keyboard 😔

[@rengmain2471]

what a great decision made so professionally

[@akaemmaclaire]

" listen up micro and macro economics andy's" 😭😭😭

[@Jojo.R.Chipelago]

If your own actions make you cry, there is usually some kind of reason for that...

[@erinedwards209]

(Lethal sarcasm alert) I was mad but then he said he cried last time 💔 hope he stays strong, thoughts and prayers to this CEO and his family. I can’t imagine how hard this must be for him.

[@SuperHappyNoodle]

Not a steven crowder ad coming up before this video

[@cheeseshop]

i got an ad for crowders channel while watching this video lmao

[@epicsause21]

My dad got fired for labor theft. Such a shit policy. It's more of an intimidation tactic to enable underpaid work.

[@millslou___2359]

This is what happened at WeWork, when soft bank came in. 5k employees let go, made employees do triple the work dude, and would not hire. Cried when we burnt out

[@chestypants78]

Around the 3 minute mark, Hasan explains what I liken to a 'tug of war' or 'tug of work' that exists between every employer and employee. Employer: Wants to pay minimum for maximum work output. Employee: Wants to earn maximum pay for minimum output. This is normal. It's like an unwritten rule. But we all know people who resemble the horse in George Orwell's Animal Farm. The unquestioning work horse who just does what he is told because it's what he deserves. If there are any book readers here, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, a novel by Robert Tressell, is a MUST read. It's basically 'the worker's Bible'.

[@nfzeta128]

Yea that's where the problem ensues. If too many employees start ignoring their perspective and being on the side of the employer the balance isn't kept and we end up where we are today.

[@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot]

Angry mob time? Angry mob time.

[@moisesaguirre515]

Facts bro. This dude couldn't even put on a real work uniform to fire these people

[@brvxtn]

thats probably a company provided laptop that he'll have to send back too lol

[@devolvedstate8557]

The employees that were not fired should organize a total force walk out and unionize their workforce demand more pay and the firing of the current CEO....if office workers don't react the same way blue colar workers do nothings going to change.

[@TimFrischIsHere]

Anyone got a link to the manager forum lmao?

[@Otzkar]

Not to detract from the video or anything said in it by Hassan but to my knowledge the woman reacting to getting fired in the first clip is not actually the person being laid off, but someone doing a voiceover trying to garner sympathy. I've got this info from a secondary source so take this with a grain of salt but that's what I heard

[@FortuitousOwl]

It’s true, I watched the original video before she made hers.

[@emilr9590]

Nice slickback

[@ditrixgenesis781]

My mom and her department were laid off and they were offered a decent severance package, but they pulled a sneaksie and offered them all undesirable positions so that means them leaving is now voluntary and their severance was lost.

[@AirQuotes848]

900 people right before Christmas

[@sevilnatas]

This layoff was 100% about the upcoming IPO. The companies financials look better to the market with a sudden infusion of capital, while massively reducing expenses in the form of payroll. It is all a numbers game to the corporation and the market, but it is life and death to the employees.

[@trappedinamerica7740]

yes. You put it exactly right and the narrative of the employees only working 2 hours a day is a made up response to the public criticism. There is no way all these people only worked 2 hours a day and they all got away with it until they desired to fire them all just in time to look good financially.

[@pri2x0x]

The hell did he get dumb dolphins from?? That is the most random animal

[@tribopower]

The worst part is the ones who stay who will need to work 3x,4x if not more harder than before and receive no benefit whatsoever of the 750Mil Bruh I would quit on the spot or don't do anything else for the company while getting paid, absolutly disgusting CEO