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“I worked at a data company where the guys in the sales department fucked around all day. They’d literally hang out in the parking lot, drinking beer and racing RC cars. When it came to handling clients, they frequently gave away free accounts in order to ‘retain’ customers (and make their own sales numbers look good). Somehow, they got away with it. Meanwhile, dozens of programmers worked tirelessly to integrate complicated data and make it easy to access via the website. When upper management made the yearly holiday announcements, they revealed that they decided to send the entire sales team to Hawaii for an all-inclusive vacation. When the developers asked why it was only the sales team, the CEO literally said, ‘Well, I mean, I guess we could ask the sales team to pick one person from each department who helped them the most this year and take them, too.’ The programmers, engineers, and database people were livid and walked out in droves.”
“Gee, I wonder why the company tanked.” —u/Luckyboy28
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/victoriavouloumanos/great-resignation-mass-quitting-stories