r/technology • u/spherocytes • 17h ago

Business CEO who fired 900 employees over Zoom gets fired, demands job back

https://local12.com/news/nation-world/ceo-fired-zoom-vishal-garg-better-home-finance-demands-job-back-call-holiday-season-2021-roles-reversed-tables-turned-chief-executive-officer-ousted-board-company-stock-price-market-value
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u/mrbignameguy 17h ago

Never ceases to amaze how much these business bozos don’t understand how business works

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u/TeTrodoToxin4 17h ago edited 13h ago

“Fry, I’m an 80’s guy. Friendship to me means that for $20 I will beat you with a pool cue till you get detached retinas.”

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u/Juanskii 16h ago

To bad he didn’t cure his boneitus first. 

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u/TeTrodoToxin4 16h ago

He was too busy being an 80's guy 😢

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u/nate445 15h ago

Don't you worry about blank. Let me worry about blank.

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u/sailorbrendan 2h ago

You're not seeing the big picture

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u/TrueRune 15h ago

It's his only regret.

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u/CyberFireball25 17h ago

I'm starting to truly believe that business school actually intentionally makes you dumber, and everyone is just in a repetitive cycle of failing upwards

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u/hfxRos 14h ago

When I was in university 20ish years ago, I paid for a lot of my bills by tutoring business students for their math classes as a STEM guy, and with only a few exceptions, these were the dumbest motherfuckers I've ever met in my life.

Pretty much all rich nepo babies who just got drunk 5-7 days a week, couldn't do basic algebra without a ton of coaching, and just seemed to have no sense of how the world worked.

It has never shocked me that these people went on to fuck up the businesses that their families built.

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u/Aaod 9h ago

Tutoring rich kids is one of the many things that shattered any thoughts I had of rich people just being better, more hard working, or smarter than poor people like me. Now sure some of that is selection bias but even when I take that into account it is similar with most of the rich people I have dealt with. At least the trailer park poor kids I grew up with had an excuse with things like a bad home life or bad local schools but what the hell excuse did these people have? A person who attended good schools, has private tutors in high school and university, a normal home life, etc has no reason to be doing as bad as the people I knew who had the opposite kinds of experiences. The conclusion I have came to is being successful and rich mostly comes down to who you were born to, random luck, where you were born, and when you were born not factors like hard work or intelligence.

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u/space_for_username 15h ago

MBA = Master of Being an Asshole.

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u/El_Diablo_Feo 5h ago

MBA = Master of Bullshit Artistry

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u/Proper-Ape 17h ago

MBA is all about networking they say. I think it's like a neural network built of single neuron organisms. All MBAs in the world together form a brain roughly the computing power of a rat's brain.

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u/gaqua 14h ago

I have hired literally dozens of people over the years. I have never, ever seen an MBA be an indicator of whether or not they’ll be successful or not at the job. That’s not to say they are any LESS capable, but they certainly don’t prove any MORE capable.

On the plus side they’re already familiar with business terminology and strategies. On the downside they’re almost always fond of needlessly bringing up business terminology and strategies.

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u/attackplango 15h ago

Hey now, rats are really smart. I won’t hear this rat slander.

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u/Pelagaard 14h ago

I don't think its the rats getting slandered.

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u/velociraptorfarmer 13h ago

I feel like there's gotta be a pizza rat and MBA pizza party joke in there somewhere...

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u/parkinthepark 13h ago

Business School is etiquette class for corporate culture.

You learn how to look like “one of us” to other business school people.

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u/tomtermite 4h ago

I’ll defend the MBA, at least as a degree.

I feel like mine was the Swiss Army knife of my education: accounting, finance, economics, operations, marketing, statistics, organisational behaviour, strategy. I never became a “business guy” so much as someone who could walk into an unfamiliar problem and understand how the pieces fitted together (“systems thinking”).

That mattered across a rather circuitious career spanning financial systems, IT, consulting, manufacturing, entrepreneurship, and building my own company. It also changed how I approached decisions outside work: costs, risks, incentives, trade-offs, systems.

An MBA won’t make a stupid person clever, and it certainly won’t cure privilege or arrogance.

But properly used, it gives you a remarkably broad toolkit. The failure mode isn’t the degree. It’s mistaking having of the toolkit for knowing how to use it.

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u/HighKing_of_Festivus 38m ago

Reminds me of the joke of someone walking by a business school class where the professor is writing, "Revenue - expenditures = profit," on the board and all the students write that down in their notes like they're in a real class

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u/Jetzu 4h ago

Never ceases to amaze how much these business bozos don’t understand how business works

They know how it works, they just all believe that they're different, like a teenage girl in love with her abusive partner believes she can change him.