The more a company brags about profit the less work I do. Clearly the work I am doing is profitable so why do more if I am not seeing the benifits.

Company-wide email: “We’ve had our best year ever and it’s all thanks to YOU!”

Me: “Great. Can I have a raise?”

Company: “Oh, we can’t afford THAT.”

Look at all this money at saved by firing all the people that created the products we’re profiting on

CEO pay raise, company buys back stocks, record profits…but we gotta make layoffs and no more raises or overtime.

Profits or bragging how they can do a ton of stock buybacks.

Pay bonus with stocks in the company. Problem solved.

Like VW is paying out 4.5 billion € in dividends, while telling employees they have to cut wages. They played it clever by announcing huge layoffs, that can be prevented by cutting the wages now. But the Porsche-Piech family is a few billions richer now and will be a few billions richer at the end of the year.

On the plus side, real estate prices will likely continue to fall in the region.

Its just not wirth it to work anymore. I can make more money by faking a disability and filing for social security benefits and stay home all day. /joking