re: ‘Read this email immediately’: CDC calls 180 employees back to work 2 weeks after firing

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What a moronic thing to post. Yes, Musk fired 80% of Twitter's workforce almost immediately, and revenue dropped. And then it rose again. Last time I checked (about a week ago), revenue was back up to almost the all time high of $1.4billion, but with a drastically reduced workforce. You people on this thread who think you know the first thing about whether a company is being run correctly or not, but who obviously have never done anything in your life but punch a clock (and complain about how the company you worked for was being run) make me laugh. The last time I saw y'all come out of the woodwork was during the COVID lockdowns. All these people on social media blaming businesses (mostly locally owned small businesses at that) for going out of business and/or laying employees off during the lockdowns because "If they were run correctly they would have more than 1-2 months of reserve cash to float them." Without ever stopping to do any simple napkin math to see if their assertion was valid (hint, it wasn't). The average profit margin for small businesses is 7-10%. Let's call it 10% for the ease of the math. The average small business owner takes home a little over $70,000 a year (close enough to that to round down for convenience sake). That means that the yearly revenue is $700,000, or just over $58,000 a month, and expenses comprise just over $52,000 of that. $5,800 left over. Which means if the owner didn't take a dime for him/herself, it would take 10 months to put away one month's worth of expenses. 5 years to accumulate 6 month's worth. And again, that's 5 years of the owner taking home nothing, just paying bills and socking away what would have been his take home to prepare for an international pandemic. Actually, it would take longer than that, because taxes would eat up a percentage of that monty, but for simplicity's sake... This is the kind of very simple stuff that you armchair business owners have no clue about, but freely opine about.

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X like most tech companies live off of H1Bs that they can drive into the ground 60-80hr a week. The non H1Bs putting in similar time aren’t going to take a low paid government job.

Saying something worked at a tech company like X so it’ll be totally fine at a government job is so laughably stupid I’m almost speechless…almost.

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so there is a better way to do it...and we did it in 95 under Clinton

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lol. No.

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CDC calls 180 employees back to work 2 weeks after firing

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CDC calls 180 employees back to work 2 weeks after being laid off.
And?

Good for those employees ... right?

This happens all the time in the private sector. It happened years ago to my dad amongst a mass of layoffs. A week later when they realized they'd made a mistake in his case, rescinded his notice, and invited him back, he'd already located a better position elsewhere.

The tone of your post comes across as if the 180 returning workers should be unhappy somehow about employment regained so quickly.

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X like most tech companies live off of H1Bs that they can drive into the ground 60-80hr a week

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My company has invited over 500 of us "supervisors" to a call to discuss how to respond properly to USCIS questioning about other employees visa status in response to increased checks (bring it on!)

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Saying something worked at a tech company like X so it’ll be totally fine at a government job

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Many workers performing little to no work getting canned to reduce costs? Yeah, clearly doesn't translate into FedGov, school districts, McDonalds, Wal-Mart, a midstream O&G... Oh wait. It does. Remind me again how every government shut down cripples the American economy. Yes, everyone makes great fanfare over how it'll take six months to get a passport, you can't walk around a 200 year old memorial cause it's taped off, just like if you don't increase taxes, it's firefighters and teachers that will suffer. Boo fricking hoo.

Why? Be specific and coherent

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This has been parroted repeatedly but no one has given an example.

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I literally just did.

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regularly fire staff members

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Unless you're talking about "for cause" dismissal or immolation, you're misusing the term "fire"

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Not unusual in the business world. Cut too much and hire back what you truly need. Rough on the employees affected but it’s nothing new.

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This

When you acquire a bloated company that is hemorrhaging cash, you first cut more than you need, and then find out exactly what you need to run the company.

Same thing Elon did at Twitter and Tesla

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This has been parroted repeatedly but no one has given an example.

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Since you are hand-wringing about Elon, Twitter and Tesla

Pretty much every acquisition in the history of business, that wasn't immediately liquidated.

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It seems unlikely that companies frequently or regularly fire staff members just to rehire them back shortly after.

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Are you fricking serious? Are you a serious person right now?

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That’s extremely inefficient.

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Inefficiency is why the acquisition occurs. You layoff more than you need to find out how many people are actually needed to run the business

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Unless you're talking about "for cause" dismissal or immolation, you're misusing the term "fire"

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She is just repeating what she read. Don’t bother assuming she understands anything.