Not only that, but with the advent of things like ChatGPT, you don't even need humans to do the data analysis. You don't need someone to be watching you, the system does it itself.
My company sends you an automated email of ‘insights’ each week. Stuff like ‘you spent x hours working outside your scheduled hours’ as ‘you spent x hours in collaboration.’ The intent is very clearly not to help people understand where they spend their time but to say the company is watching you.
They do not want to be in a situation where key individuals are important enough to their operations that they can ask for more benefits of better conditions
They sure don’t. The thing is while nobody is irreplaceable at work, some people are harder to replace than others. During coof, HR were rabid about shot compliance. One of my best colleagues refused and got a religious exemption but they refused to put it in writing and held it over her head. She politely asked multiple times and HR kept fucking with her. She got another better paid job within 48 hours and left. Apparently (and she’s not one to lie) senior exec level management called her and begged her to stay. She said the guy was actually begging her. She still quit. I assume the HR wonk got fired.
Expecting applicants, not paid employees, to be on call for any number of tasks from 8AM to at least 11PM is retarded. Calling at 8 just to see if someone answers is especially retarded and would merit a violent reaction.
I was chatting to one of our medical officers a while back. She’s on call permanently, o lay off when she’s on PTO and paid a fortune for it. Apparently she’s only once rage quit a job. One client called her all week at times between midnight at 4am ‘to test if she would pick up because he didn’t trust her’ (she’s a visiting prof of some incredibly niche speciality and could pick her employment at will, also very professional and well regarded.) and she was so furious she left. Ooops. Good luck replacing her.
Modern corporate culture is absolute cancer. I am so so sick of it.
My LinkedIn is as bare bones as it can be. I still get recruiters, constantly. Mainly for jobs that are the same job I’m doing now but no increase in pay or reduction in hours. I even get them messaging me with ‘hello {name}…’ like literally with ‘name’ written instead of my actual name. During coof, so many people quit I was getting maybe ten genuine approaches some days. I began to really, really enjoy teasing them
‘Do you require the Covid shot as a condition of employment?’
Yes
‘Oh dear, well obviously doing what I do I haven’t had one.’
Ok. Well we can’t go forward then.
‘Sure no problem you have a lovely day!’
(Ten minutes later…)
Say why is that ?
‘Oh I’m sure you’ll be fine dont worry about it I probably shouldnt have said.’
