Even though my company had two consecutive record breaking years in terms of revenue, at the first whiff of a downturn, they laid off several entire departments of employees this week.
Their solution to the layoffs? Spread that work out to the employees that we didn't cut and refuse to offer any sort of raise. I have not had my pay revisited in a year and a half, so already would be making less money than last year at my same rate; now on top of it, I get to absorb the workloads of multiple departments I previously relied on, on a daily basis.
Now I'm kicking myself for not being more dispensable as I would be in a better position today if I had just been laid off. Instead, I get to work twice as hard for less money, while our company leadership looks like leather working remotely from their vacation homes. Some backwards ass motivation right there. Just have to get this off my chest that this system is absolute trash and I cant bring myself to participate much longer.