• Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Solidarity, brothers and sisters! If you or your co-workers find yourselves in this situation make sure you hold out for higher pay, better hours, more vacation – anything – if you accept a return offer. Make them (the C-class, the billionaires who did this) pay in at least some way.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      hold out for higher pay, better hours, more vacation – anything

      Not immediately. Take the job now and get the finances under control. But don’t stop interviewing and applying, and move from a position of strength into a better job when it comes around. And if you’re back at the old job that ditched you, then ditching them isn’t so hard this time.

      Always take care of the basic needs - money for food, money for clothing, money for shelter - before moving up the Maslow pyramid.

    • rozodru@pie.andmc.ca
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      3 days ago

      yes if they want you back you NEED to demand higher pay. Many companies, even some of my clients, are trying to pull the “we need you back but we’re going to pay less than what we previously paid you” bullshit thinking devs will be desperate enough to take it.

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      3 days ago

      This. Use their desperation to your benefits.

      Demand no probation since you were previously a good employee. Demand higher pay, better benefits et al, hell, a signing bonus and backpay for your unfair dismissal, go as far as you can. Remember, they just realised that they need you more than you need them.

      Use that knowledge to your advantage.

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      3 days ago

      You’re gonna want that higher pay when you’re spending your days unraveling spaghetti code written by AI.

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Stupid CEOs seem to be stupid suckers/marks for so much “corporate astrology”, mesmerized into a greedy stupid stupor by the same old soothing, stupid magic spell: “more automation… less meatbags…”