Expectations are not real. A dollar of profit is still a profit. Two dollars of profit is twice as good, not somehow half because some douche said you were "supposed" to make four.
What kind of entitled, born-rich, greed-monkey world spawns people who treat a massive profit as a loss because someone who has nothing to do with the operation of their business thought they would make more?
Save your "expectations" for customer satisfaction surveys at a hotel. Productive enterprise can only address itself to reality.
The previous company I worked for was bought out by stereotypical venture capitalist bros a few years ago, and I stayed there for about a year in the acquisition. Company meetings shifted focus away from customer support and satisfaction to talking about finances, EBIDA, and future acquisitions all while customer satisfaction surveys started tanking. We also went through numerous rounds of layoffs, because the company was now on the hook for the loans that XXX took out for said acquisition. During the last all-hands call I attended, I heard the following "XXX (parent company) recorded the highest profit in the history of the company last quarter .... (5-10 minutes later) ..... unfortunately, we were short on sales projections by ~70/80% percent".
Guess which metric they used to calculate employee bonuses?
I went job hunting the next day, signed an offer letter 48 hours later. Fuck all of these venture capitalist tech bros.
