During our RTO mandates, and after a huge layoff, we had an executive who was broadcasting in front of her glass wine cellar. The head of technology would address entire rooms full of people from his $5m mansion’s custom engraved kitchen and tell us we weren’t going to have performance based bonuses that year (he was paid double).

I’m fucking sorry, but Elon saying “excess empathy is a societal problem” is one of the most evil things I’ve heard from someone with significant power this century.

This is Sesame Street, preschool, kindergarten level values and morals that people somehow still safe to flaunt. They all walk this path at their own peril.

Our c-suite did a tour a year or two back visiting all our offices around the country. We hadn't quite hit the full RTO order yet, but many of us were already in the office 90+% of the time because we work in labs. One of the execs was talking about how great remote work was for about 10 minutes, completely oblivious to the fact that all of us were in the office 4 or 5 days a week.

It was funny in a pathetic kind of way. The stupidity of people at the top.

We all knew that RTO is a layoff. More confirmation is nice, though

From the recently hired Senior VP that was giving an award to a regular VP and had the following exchange,

"Charlie, I hear you like Audis. How many do you have?" "I have 2" "Just 2? I have 4"

To the Senior VP who was running that week's all hands and asked "anyone else going to the regatta at X yacht club this weekend?"

And the exec suite getting steaks and salmon delivered on china on the regular while the rest of us got sodexo crap on the daily. These hypocrisies and tone deaf statements are the norm, COVID and RTO just better exposed them.

This comes across as naivety to the point of trolling their own employees. It might be worth following where those particular executives go, and to maybe avoid being involved with those companies with services and the like if you have options.

I thought neurotypical people were supposed to understand Theory of Mind[1] and comprehend how people perceive them.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind