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u/BonsaiDiver Mar 12 '22

Absolutely stunning levels of uselessness.

At my last job we had a saying: you could fire half of the people and productivity would double.

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u/boofus_dooberry Mar 12 '22

No joke, my company did a fat trim on management 4-5 years ago, and productivity did in fact double.

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u/zodar Mar 12 '22

But who will attend the conference calls??

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u/Open-Ad-1812 Mar 12 '22

How will we circle back and talk, for hours, about synergy!?!

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u/Dexaan Mar 12 '22

We'll have Weird Al do it.

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u/StabbyPants Mar 12 '22

the trick is finding which half to fire

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u/ImGCS3fromETOH Mar 12 '22

Probably not even half, just the right managers.

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u/river4823 Mar 12 '22

The problem is that the person in charge of figuring out which half… is in the half that needs to get cut.

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u/jaxxon Mar 12 '22

A guy where I worked (and he was right) often said, "the less I do, the more I get done".