What idiot idea at your work caused a mess walkout.

They laid off half the company with no warning.

This included a gentleman who was less than a year from retirement and had been there for more than 35 years.

The company was shocked when half the remaining people abandoned ship shortly afterwards.

The company consistently outpaced competing firms and found itself

emerging as one of the industry leading agencies. This was also a California tech firm,

so shorts, flip-flops, beers at lunch, getting high on the roof were all pretty common.

But we were rapidly growing and the atmosphere and location made us a hot ticket for talent.

Anyway, the CFO and CMO cashed out and the CEO and location made us a hot ticket for talent. Anyway, the CFO and

CMO cashed out, and the CEO decided to completely remodel the company by making it far more

corporate. On top of all of this, they implemented unattainable goals and removed our work-from-home

policy. The final straw was they removed our rather generous vacation policy and replaced it

with unlimited vacation,

which was a facade for, you can take as much vacation as you want if we approve it. They didn't approve

much, by the way. Like a quarter of the company quit and immediately landed at better jobs. Also,

profits tanked. Our company is doing incredible. Let's change everything. Task failed successfully.

Turned out, our owner was keeping the social security money taken from our paychecks. And yes,

he was caught. Restructure of the way we're paid. What I used to do involved about 40% client

interaction, 20% team and co-worker interaction,

and 40% paperwork and case coordination stuff. Based on what we do, that means about 40% of the

time is technically billable, and there are only really sticky rules for what is and isn't billable.

So logically, we're being paid on a salary model, Q management saying we can only make money

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