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Notice how shi*y companies always seem to find that "unfairness" needs to be "fixed" by removing the benefit?


Similar to how the solution to work/life imbalance is never less work.


What else is it?


Letting the staff go absolutely ape-shit on the latest MFC that just refuses to print or scan correctly, once per quarter.


Pizza parties of course /s


It's not just companies. I've seen lots of people say why do they get X? rather than how can we get X?

As an example, Pinball and arcade games are often very easy to source. Where I've seen them at my workplace, they were brought in and maintained by employees. Some space needs to be allocated, and maybe needs a bit of electrical work if a high density arcade forms, but otherwise... May be different if there's no collectors in the employee base, or in countries where machines are scarce.


Yeah, the "if I can't have X you shouldn't have it either" mentality. These people are a joy to be around, they get a twisted sense of satisfaction when they manage to get X removed. I'm like, go get some therapy for that.


I mean, If I can't have it, you shouldn't have it is kind of ok-ish; but it's when they skip trying to get X and just short circuit to you have X and I don't, let's get rid of your X that bothers me.


*Every company




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