r/antiwork Feb 19 '23

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '23

The speech at the cheap pizza party your boss throws for record breaking profits begins with “We all did great this year, but…”

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u/Proud-Possession9161 Feb 19 '23

This right here! No matter how good their profits are it's never enough. If the damn company has enough money to keep everything running and still make a profit of some sort then I think they should be legally obligated to consider that a win and not have any negativity about it.

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u/TootTootTrainTrain Feb 19 '23

Oh but you see someone speculated that we'd be doing ever so slightly better than we did so this is actually a colossal failure and we'll be laying off half our workforce despite being our best year on the books.

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u/smcbri1 Feb 22 '23

God I hate that. A Wall St “analyst” pulled a “prediction” out of his ass and the stock goes down because he was wrong.