@icedquinn @volpeon @sun no you see we are always hiring as the line must go ever upwards
We fire people to hire new ones, hooray!

@Erpel @volpeon Yeah to be laid off at a moments notice. Don't think that'll help with the bills that much.

@pwm @volpeon @sun you joke but its called stack ranking the CEO for GM came up with the doctrine that you should always be firing people to scare the rest

@icedquinn @pwm @volpeon microsoft does in fact do stack ranking, or at least used to

@sun @pwm @volpeon everyone basically does its one of those harvard business turmors

when i looked up what the hell this was it even came up with articles about its so hated that companies instruct HR et all to hide it so people can't criticize the practice

google combines it with some other ever shifting scoring matrices but they openly do it

total ivy league death

@icedquinn @pwm @volpeon I am pretty sure in Microsoft's case now though they are just firing people so they can hire more Indians

@sun @pwm @volpeon deming had some scathing yet professional words for the harvard mba types and it was basically "they're taught everything about acquiring businesses and nothing about how to run one"

@sun @pwm @volpeon i'm pretty sure its just the investors wanted dividends so they fired everyone to make the numbers. now its a new fiscal quarter so they're hiring so some manager can grow his department.

there is no grand plan in most cases its just people following local perverse incentives.

@volpeon "Graphic design is my passion"

@icedquinn @pwm @volpeon probably is but multiple SV companies have been sued because their Indian execs only hired Indians, enough that I am going to wonder.

@volpeon Microsoft really pisses me off

@sun @pwm @volpeon don't hiring managers tend to select their own race most of the time in general

@hexaitos Design of stock graphs /j
@volpeon

@volpeon graphics team needs people to do graphics

@volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip that's obviously just a special edition for managers. Makes it easier for them to look at what you do and acting all smart and holier than thou

@volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip maybe it’s a $300 dbrand sticker ​​

@vel @volpeon now i need a dbrand skin like that 🥴

@volpeon Yeah wouldn't surprise me if this was partly AI-generated, given Microsoft's recent employee mandate.

@volpeon it's the backend developer meme

@volpeon I can see why they are hiring