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From: Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com>
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JAB <noway@nochance.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>On 23/10/2024 09:25, Xocyll wrote:
>> Yeah the corporate raiders of the '90's put an end to that, wiping out
>> most of the old school companies and creating the "leaner, meaner,
>> what's in it for me, fuck the dead weight" type leadership.
>> Where the dead weight truly was dead weight originally, but became more
>> and more of the people who actually made what the corp sold.
>> 
>> They trimmed the fat, then they trimmed muscle and bone in endless
>> downsizings and killed the company dead, but jumped ship before it died.
>
>Yep we had that, get rid of the office manager and let the engineers do 
>all those little jobs themselves. After constantly running out of 
>printer paper a graduate was delegated to look after it.

Why not just get an unpaid intern?

"Your job is to change the paper in the printers and such, no money but
you get valuable experience you can put on your resume to get you a real
job next year.  Oh and do you have a younger sibling who'd like your
unpaid job next year?"

Xocyll