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[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's been 1D thinking all along! Anyone who works in a modern day corporation, has tales of wanton firing without any sort of consideration for who or what was going to carry on doing the work that the people let go were doing.

I don't want to dox myself, but I remember one time someone got the bright idea to fire the entire AP team and replace them with one of those damn portals that we all know never works right (shock and awe, your vendors aren't going to do your work for you, and automation really means you need six people in the background fixing all the automated fuck ups). Whole idea looked great on paper, allegedly, but the actual execution was, of course, a dumpster fire. Fast forward a few months where the org went through quite a public spectacle locally, where there was some sort of an event with lots of eyes and suddenly no equipment on hand because no one had paid the vendor. I vividly remember the president absolutely screaming in my face and me doing everything in my power to not burst out laughing because (a) I didn't work in AP and (b) the person screaming was the very same person who six months earlier had rubber stamped this jabroni fest of an idea.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

Accounts Payable. The department that pays the bills.