In Polish we have a neologism “Januszex” that denotes a typical company that has terrible pay and even worse worker’s rights and bosses. Basically a boss who tells you that he will try to fire you if you go on a medical leave and that he already has 5 immigrants ready to take over your spot, so you shouldn’t complain :V

The name is basically a play on how in 1990s and early 2000s we had tons of new companies that used the owner’s name and added an “x” at the end to sound modern.

So that got me thinking – are there similar names in other countries? Something like GüntherGmbH or JeanSAS (yeah, I had to come up with some dumb examples :p ). Or maybe an abundance of crappily managed companies exploiting workers is more of an economic transformation thing and only former Eastern Bloc countries would have such names?


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