Unironically the place I last worked at

“Our 20-employee company made over € 8 million profit last year!”
I ask for a raise because I’m underpaid for the work I deliver.
“Ahh noooo see there is no more money for thag…”

Needless to say I quit. Citing them this as one of the reasons.

I once saw this in a smaller scale and it kinda blew me away. I had a friend who worked on construction for a small company with maybe 8 employees and their boss. He woked a lot. He made some good money, but not compared to the work they did. The boss took so much work all the time, that they sometimes worked from 6am untill 10pm. Saturdays as well. At some point he couldn’t pay them overtime, but promised to pay them asap. (And he did, but like 10 years later.) One saturday, we had some plans and i told him that i would pick him up at his workplace and we could go directly from there. When i picked him up his boss showed off his brand new mercedes AMG to his crew. And everyone was just talking about how cool his new car was, and he needs a car like that to pull his new huge boat. Literally no one was like: “waaaait a minute.”

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.

Pay bonus with stocks in the company. Problem solved.

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

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

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.”

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.

Don’t forget to tell the customers about raising the prices because of the inflation

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

Needs a third button that says “do stock buybacks”

Pay management, CEOs, shareholders all or majority of all profits, even though they did nothing to build the company … tell employees they have to pay them less but make them work harder.

… also raise the price of food and tell everyone it’s their fault they can’t afford anything.

What if we add Kurt Angle to the mix?

But if they paid more then they wouldn’t have record profits! Won’t you think of the shareholders?

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