What's wrong with today's market and why there's a shortage of employees:
Intel: Pat Gelsinger gets a 45% raise from 11 million yearly salary to 16 million.
Also Intel: Sorry guys, this is really hard to do to our "family", but we're going to have to fire 15% of all of you (thousands of employees).
Don't give your life to the company you work for, you'll be discarded like garbage once you're no longer needed, you only have 1 life, do what is necessary for work, but then save your energy for your life and your REAL FAMILY; your loved ones.
I've reached the point in life where I'd rather work a minimum wage job, where I can just do my 9 to 5 and go home for a no-nonsense company no "DEI" (AKA forced racism, sexism and token hiring).
Why for an entire month do I need to feel sorry for being white, or an entire month for being straight and am I forced to respect someone else's beliefs but they don't have to respect mine? Companies that adhere to this stuff ARE what cause toxicity in the workplace.
The happiest times in my life were when I had jobs that were minimum wage or small companies, when I worked for Fossil as a retail associate but was able to go home on time with my girlfriend picking me up and we both going home together, no emails or calls after closing the shop.
Another was when I worked for ClusterVision, a small company, which therefor didn't deal with all the nonsense politics, they just wanted to make the company work, no time for 20 useless meetings per week, just use the 8 hours a day you have to get work done.
Something similar happend with Packet, which then became, Equinix Metal and now we're just a service offering in Equinix's list, at first I felt truly blessed, it was a small company on it's way to success, everyone had their part to do, entrusted with responsibility and only judged by their performance and reliability, which made me give my everything (besides my gratitude for being hired during corona).
Things started to change when we got acquired by Equinix and then even more so once the acquisition + integration was completed, at that point everyone was just another cog in the wheel, the original leaders of packet bailed and I can see now why and I see this being repeated, because the same happend at SoftLayer which was acquired by IBM, the people who started and loved the company left when it was purchased by a soulless mega-corporation.
There was a time when I wanted to work for the megacorps like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, but those days are gone.
My original dream was to build a mom and pop computer store on the corner of the street or something, but then the world digitalized and my dream died as physical shops couldn't compete with webshops anymore, let alone mega webshops, this is also why Fossil shut down the store I worked in as part of a plan to cut their losses, because physical stores were becoming less and less profitable.
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