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points by Lammy 3 days ago | 0 comments
The FAGMAN companies got caught colluding to depress wages by avoiding hiring people already employed by the others, so they learned to accomplish the same thing without writing it down by having these periodic huge layoffs across the entire industry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
[–] heresie-dabord 3 days ago
> The FAGMAN companies

For sardonic reasons, I prefer "MANNA".

It seems heavenly until the wailing and gnashing of teeth begin.

[–] tombert 3 days ago
I remember hearing about that.

Of course, this is just when they got caught doing it. Who knows how often it happens where they don't.

[–] anal_reactor 3 days ago
> The FAGMAN companies

Buahahahaaha

[–] endemic 1 day ago
Well, Freud was right.