From linkedin, so true..

I’m furious. It makes me sick reading about women getting laid off while giving birth, or people laid off while on business trips, or laid off after recently uprooting their families across the country (or even the world) to work for a corporation that does not give a damn about them as human beings. What did I do for my company in the nearly 9 years I worked there you might ask? I was loyal, and honest and I gave them 100% of my creative self. Pre-Covid, I spent more waking hours at the office with my co-workers than with my own kids. I traveled the world for my company—over 40 business trips from Shanghai to London. I proselytized their message and helped launch titles that sold massive numbers and even won numerous awards. I was kind to my colleagues and never considered a job too big or too small. I gave them the best of myself. And where did I end up? On the corporate scrapheap. A middle aged man (with two children still at home) facing a very uncertain future in my industry. Why do we let these Executives—with their generational wealth snugly tucked away in the banks—have such profound control over our lives? For some meager stock options? Decent health care? A salary that enables us to live a middle class live style? But always with the Sword of Damocles over our necks—the threat that it can be taken away on any given day…to appease the voracious shareholders or as a tax write off. A seemingly random act—a purge that has a rotten tang about it. When I started working for my company as a full time employee in 2015, its market cap was around 250 billion. As of today it is nearly 2 trillion dollars. So why did they suddenly have to lay off so many people? Why are they so scared? And why are all these other companies piling on at the same time like proverbial lemmings? Do they know something we don’t? Did they arrange this together? What’s clear is that they are greedy and cowardly to boot. And they don’t give a crap about you. I’ll never buy the corporate BS ever again. I’ve had it with the rah rah speeches and self-satisfied talk about company “culture.” It’s all double speak. You might have kept your job this time, friends. But you could be next. We’re the dead canaries in the coal mine.