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I find myself reminescing about my first job, where I was the 6th employee of our branch. Seemed like I struck gold: office in the city center, parking spot, high class spa subscription, best private medical insurance. Being my first job I tought working is not as bad as my college friends told me. Naturally we started growing year after year soon reaching 50 employees. But then we received an email telling us that now that we have reached such a high number we need to reduce the costs by droping all employees spa subscription. Soon after we lost the free parking spots and once we reached just a little above 100 employes the office was moved to a shitty cheaper location, even tough the current location had entire floors for rent. Reason: because now that the branch is big we need to reduce costs. Question is: if 1 employee…


I find myself reminescing about my first job, where I was the 6th employee of our branch. Seemed like I struck gold: office in the city center, parking spot, high class spa subscription, best private medical insurance. Being my first job I tought working is not as bad as my college friends told me. Naturally we started growing year after year soon reaching 50 employees. But then we received an email telling us that now that we have reached such a high number we need to reduce the costs by droping all employees spa subscription. Soon after we lost the free parking spots and once we reached just a little above 100 employes the office was moved to a shitty cheaper location, even tough the current location had entire floors for rent. Reason: because now that the branch is big we need to reduce costs. Question is: if 1 employee produces x amount of money then 100 employees produce x multiplied by 100 so the money for all these benefits are still produced. Why are these companies so greedy? Ofcourse we all lost motivation, soon after we started leaving or just tried to work as little as possible.

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