COMPANY KEEPS FIRING WORKERS THEN COMPLAIN “UNDERSTAFFED” & “STAFF SLOW”

What exactly is up with places choosing to run on skeleton crews and management getting upset that things aren’t 100% complete?

At which point do you say “screw it” and quit and find other work?

At my company, people are getting let go left and right and management doesn’t seem to have the foresight to hire people as replacements before getting rid of someone.

Which means there are like 3 or 4 people running around trying to get everything done, which is unsustainable and leads to burn out.

Yet all they do is like that horse stuck in the mud meme: Have multiple managers go around and yell at people for not “moving faster”.

It makes no sense.

Netizens’ comments

1. This is the modern model. Executives want increases in profit. The easiest way to increase profit is to reduce costs. The easiest way to reduce costs is to cut payroll. At that point the whole process starts to fall apart because the executives don’t accept that enterprises need enough actual workers to do the work.
2. I blame this on unscrupulous restaurant managers (or higher ups) going into a different line of work. It’s been like that in hospitality for decades.
   Over hire for opening, start weeding people out by the first pay day, running things on skeleton crew to keep profits high, labor low, and act like the name of the business on your paycheck is a privilege that maybe you’re not good enough for.
3. A point I think a lot of people miss is that any sufficiently large business isn’t really in business to do the business they say they do. The stuff they make or sell is just there to justify the company’s stock price. They all put out the same D- effort because the service they provide isn’t the point.
4. When inflation causes the cost of business to go up, the money has to come from somewhere, and like many have mentioned, it’s usually the work force that takes the hit. The idea is that if you can manage to keep the business afloat through the recession that once it’s over you can revive the business with more work force and get it back up to standard.
5. But you can bet the upper management and ownership groups expect their pay to stay the same size through the whole process so workers like you become the sacrificial lamb.