/biz/ - Business & Finance

>be in slightly upper-middle management position at super mega corporation
>watch people in my exact same position check each other all day for TPS reports
>this is all they do, it's their only utility
>they do absolutely nothing for anybody else
>paradoxically we a department that everyone (even the government) agrees would get people killed if we didnt exist
>during covid these people get WFH positions
>watch their output of useless busy work slow down to a halt
>some dont even bother getting online after a while
>once covid peters off they are offered fulltime WFH positions
>however it comes with a 55% (yes really) pay cut as it's a new position and robbery is legal
>watch lazy boomers who dont actually do work have to choose between going back to work (where they have to prove they arent useless) or no longer affording their mortgage
>most of them throw in the towel
>that was a year ago
>still see boomer resumes up years later despite having two decades of "experience"
>to this very day the WFH positions have not been filled
>our employer figured out you can use them as bait, get competent people to show up, have them realize the salary is McDonalds-tier and then force them to accept the real positions