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So why do company merges result in mass layoffs?
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It's not about loyalty. It's about riding off a tag.
The tags help to boost the post. Former coworkers will b more likely to respond praising you and your work which their networks will see too. It’s strategy, not loyalty.
Totally agree with you that it’s just business so emotional loyalty shouldn’t be an expectation. But on the other hand, showing how positive you are looks better than the upset or fear you might actually be feeling, and it seems to often have the benefit of your former coworkers from that company chiming in to say nice things about you in a sort of unofficial recommendation as a response.
I agree it's gross but also superficially strategic. Makes you seem like you were valued and also that you valued the experience. Makes you more attractive as a potential hire. No one wants to hire someone who seems bitter and disgruntled.
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It would make more sense to me to say “I was laid off from XYZ today” and tag them there, not wax poetic about how the office was home and they grew up there.
Maybe I’m jaded from a couple small agencies I worked at who pushed the “we’re a family” mindset, which always always always turns out to be a manipulation tactic
But like no shit a company is not like family. It’s a corporation it is not moral this is capitalism. Agree to tag your boss if they were a good one ...
You’re really punching up here, huh?
I feel like everyone who has had to make that post sees through people doing it, but we get it.
1. Announcement of availability, but you can keep yourself “employed” on your profile
2. Tag exposure; especially if you tag company and people.
3. Search terms, you’ll come up when people search for content.
4. You can fake/show off being “kind and mature” in the face of something that would get a lot of folks down.
I don’t think anyone is actually that stoked/kind/charitable when they get laid off, but maybe it helps them find a job.
I don’t believe in loyalty to corporations.. partnership at a given time yes, loyalty no. I remember at my first agency new to the industry, I was doing really, really well, but they totally underpaid me, so I decided to go else where, had certain ppl get mad at me because “I wasn’t loyal”, that same person was going around “joking” how “I betrayed them”. I’m loyal to myself, my family, my friends and my beliefs, I don’t own corporations nothing.