• aCosmicWave@lemm.ee
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    Not really an incident but I am amazed at how many groups of senior tech managers and engineers navigate from organization to organization together!

    For example, a tech VP joins a new company and within a year many of the senior positions are occupied by the VP’s previous coworkers. They give each other promotions and eventually either get outmaneuvered by another similar group of people or simply choose to move on to the next place to do it all over again.

    I had no idea such groups existed, until I was invited into one. Now that I’m aware I’ve seen the same pattern happening at pretty much every place that I’ve worked at since.

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      There’s some collective bargaining in that, though. “You lose this person, you lose all of these persons”.

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      I’m someone in that group. My last 2 jobs have been following a former manager. Now about 70% of the engineering department are from previous companies

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      As long as the abuse unethical companies, I truly don’t care. Good for them. Just don’t do this at places that make a difference

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        It shouldn’t work unless they’re not keeping up with wage increases. Jumping from place to place is only profitable if your current work is banking on you not expecting col increases.

        No matter how good hearted your workplace is, they shouldn’t be stealing labour.

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      Student in engineering, this is 100% the Departement i work at. You are an out liner if you have not worked at that one other company before. Also, more are on the way from the vorher company to us.