It's a common joke in situations like this. The form I'm familiar with is "the beatings will continue until morale improves". The saying is used to call out self-defeating treatment of a company's employees: that beatings hurt rather than help morale is the point.

https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/c4tu06/origin_of...

It's a riff on the old joke, 'the beatings will continue until morale improves.' It suggests that the problems are caused by poor management practices and has no deeper meaning.

That's exactly the point, and it won't get better anytime soon.

maybe I'm missing a layer of sarcasm or two but that's the joke

it's A play on beatings will continue until morale improves. I'm pretty sure nobody likes beatings either.

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“[some harmful shit] will continue until morale improves” is a meme.