kinda just came here to rant because I’m so sick of my job. I work on the corporate side of an international MLM with a cultish following (guess who).
back in January they decided to do 8% company-wide layoffs that only affected managerial positions and up. when they told us this, they were literally fake crying and lovebombed us. it was such a weird experience. they said things like “we love you guys so much, but we have to do what we have to do” “we know theres been people with us for decades and we love you, but we have to let you go” “it hurts us so much to do this” all through some fake ass tears and sniffles. it made me feel even more icky than I already did working here.
anyways, the layoffs lasted until JUNE. they were doing this to “improve efficiency” and “remove barriers to execution” meanwhile the suspense of everybody waiting to see if they were going to get the knife completely halted work for 4 fucking months. in the middle of May, my department was told that actually, for us, the layoffs are affecting staff too. it was down to me and a coworker, i’m still here (begrudgingly gratefully). it was a total blindside for our whole department. we were told 8% layoffs company wide, yet our department lost 20-30% of people JUST IN OUR COUNTRY.
on top of the incredibly poor way they handle business, they uphold the attitude of being positive all the time! no matter what! yay! we love work and don’t want to have lives outside of this company!
thats not even the worst though — they prey on certain communities with false promises of making money. its genuinely scary and I hate being a part of this company. I’m embarrassed to say I work here, but I have no other option because the job market sucks and I won’t be able to pay my bills without it.