https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-laid-off-twitter-workers-value-tech-jobs-work-2023-5
Discourse has recently raged over the apparent trend of "fake work," with some execs and investors claiming that tech companies overhired and gave people unnecessary jobs as a "vanity metric." Proponents of the theory say that this is why tech giants are now slashing so many jobs.
at a certain point you just have to either come to terms with the fact that market economies run your life by making arbitrary and dumbass decisions or go mad
like yeah they get rewarded for no actual work because this isn't a meritocracy