Be me, 2021, leading a team of energetic people and rebuilding the department I inherited into a productive, dynamic team focused on creating solutions and training up new people. Get awarded employee of the year, get told thanks in part to me that the company will be set to see its strongest earnings ever. Widespread praise and appreciation. Develop strong bonds with team and feel rewarded going to work.
Get laid off suddenly, told that it was part of the deal with selling the company to private equity. It was the plan all along to make the company “appear” profitable and successful so it would fetch highest value. Spend two years unemployed and depressed as covid ravages the working world and nobody wants to hire anyone over about age 28 or so, because it’s cheaper to hire younger people willing to fill any role than spend a lot on someone with specialized skills and management experience.
You may benefit from watching cgpgrey’s keys to power video. The people who you need to gain power are not the same as those needed to maintain it. So a dictator will seize power and kill off all the people who helped him, because money going to those people is money not going to the people who can overthrow you, which is loot that can be promised to them by rivals trying to take your job.
You outlived your usefulness. They have no interest in the long term growth of the company - their job was to get a return on their investment and that means inflating the value at a point in time so that they can cash out.
Be me, 2021, leading a team of energetic people and rebuilding the department I inherited into a productive, dynamic team focused on creating solutions and training up new people. Get awarded employee of the year, get told thanks in part to me that the company will be set to see its strongest earnings ever. Widespread praise and appreciation. Develop strong bonds with team and feel rewarded going to work.
Get laid off suddenly, told that it was part of the deal with selling the company to private equity. It was the plan all along to make the company “appear” profitable and successful so it would fetch highest value. Spend two years unemployed and depressed as covid ravages the working world and nobody wants to hire anyone over about age 28 or so, because it’s cheaper to hire younger people willing to fill any role than spend a lot on someone with specialized skills and management experience.
We need to overthrow capitalism guys.
You may benefit from watching cgpgrey’s keys to power video. The people who you need to gain power are not the same as those needed to maintain it. So a dictator will seize power and kill off all the people who helped him, because money going to those people is money not going to the people who can overthrow you, which is loot that can be promised to them by rivals trying to take your job.
You outlived your usefulness. They have no interest in the long term growth of the company - their job was to get a return on their investment and that means inflating the value at a point in time so that they can cash out.