The thing about #tech#layoffs that people who haven’t been through it often don’t understand is that morale never recovers. The employees who remain will never have the same relationship with that company, bosses or peers.
Watching people you respect pack their stuff and crying on the phone with their spouses is something that never goes away. When I survived a layoff in my 20s I became a “do exactly what the ticket says” person. I stopped suggesting ideas, providing feedback, believing anything a manager told me.
If you are a company considering layoffs, especially a profitable company, you should approach it as “this department will have 100% turnover”. The second I got another job offer I left that company and six months later nobody who had been there at the time of layoffs remained.
First they require in-person #returnToOffice, then they relocate business units from one location to another, and force those who can’t uproot their lives to leave.
The Apple location in #SanDiego isn’t going away. But they intentionally forced 121 people to choose between moving to #Austin, or lose their jobs. Make no mistake, this is a layoff.
Never mind the fact that #Texas is hostile to anyone with a uterus, or is not cishet—why the hell anyone would move to that state? If anything, Apple should be shutting down their Austin office, and paying for people to relocate to a state that better ensures their safety.
“Apple to Shutter 121-Person San Diego AI Team in Reorganization”
Hey y’all! Just got hit with an acute case of #layoffs. My entire team at Okta was laid off (including yours truly), and a few sibling teams were sacked as well; dozens of people I used to work with, gone in a day. Still processing it all.
If you know of a good company looking for a solid Software Engineer (Node, JS/TS, Tailwind, edge, k8s, CI/CD, you name it), please let me know.
"UPS announced this week that they will be laying off 12,000 people, approximately 2.4 percent of their global workforce...
As you may recall, UPS drivers won a hard fought battle earlier this year for higher wages and less batshit working conditions so they don’t die of heat stroke.
Is the company truly suffering? Well, no. It still had an adjusted operating profit of $9.9 billion... they “returned $7.6 billion of cash to shareowners through dividends and share buybacks".
At the same time the company is laying off workers, the board of directors approved — for the 15th year in a row — an increase to the company’s quarterly dividend. This means that people are getting laid off, but shareholders are getting a raise."
I sat off-screen and listened to a peer's #layoffs at a major #tech company last week. I didn't even work there, and even with that distance, I am astounded and disgusted at the state of this industry, and the spinelessness of the proceedings.
If you haven't experienced one yet, let me tell you the playbook.
I was laid off over a 2 minute video call this morning
If anyone is able to help me find a new job (I'm in Seattle), please reach out 🙏
I'm an experienced #DevOps and #SRE engineer, and an accomplished open-source developer (TS, #Go, #Rust etc.) with tens of thousands of users worldwide
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Since am seeing a new wave of people in the #tech industry being laid-off; presumably without severance packages of any sort, here is a reminder of what you need to do regardless of how easy you think you will land another job; and no matter how big is your savings account:
YOU NEED TO GET THE #UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS YOU PAID FOR
so go thru this thread I posted in December and read the comments:
One of our laid off #union members created this #comic, reporting their experience yesterday. It is a bittersweet but amazing wrap up of what many have experienced.
I have sufficient reason and evidence to believe that I was terminated from Rune Labs in retaliation for protected anti-discrimination whistleblowing activity.
Normally, NDA would prohibit me from disclosing this. However, thanks to Washington’s Silenced No More Act, my ability to speak about discrimination, harassment, or retaliation that I have witnessed in the workplace is legally protected.
Anybody out there looking for an ML or software engineer with >30 years total experience and ~20 years in the industry?
I have extensive experience with #Python and #ML frameworks, particularly #TensorFlow, and I've worked on #NLP and #ImageProcessing both in the workplace and in personal open source projects. My resume is available here:
It's creeping me out seeing this massive wave of #layoffs across every genre of #journalism because not only is it distressing for people to lose their jobs, but because I know what the journos are being replaced with. In a scary high-stakes election year.
Amid all the media coverage of layoffs in tech and media, you'd be forgiven for thinking the US economy was going through a period of unusually high layoffs. But it's not. Layoffs are actually down compared to pre-pandemic levels.
Welp ...after weathering the storm for just over half a year, it appears I am now, also, laid off from my job. Looking for a new role, preferably remote and preferably in #accessibility although the right #backEnd#developer job might be to my liking as well :) #layoffs#ttech#jobs
Tesla charging chief Rebecca Tinucci cut 15-20% of her team after Musk demanded it.
She felt that would justify a major Supercharger network expansion, but when she met with Musk he wanted more layoffs. When she pushed back, he fired the whole team.
If you worked in the media industry for the last three decades, the fear of layoffs was a constant. Yesterday's spectacular implosion of The Messenger is just the latest example.
Frankly, it's all rather depressing. With fewer reporters and media outlets, more governments and companies are operating in the dark. Who knows what important stories are left untold? What terrible wrongdoings uncovered? Our public is less informed, which threatens our democracy.
I don't have a solution but it seems clear we need to rethink our entire model of an independent press and the role it plays in society.
The @TexasObserver staff just issued a more detailed story about yesterday's firing and #layoffs (the latter of which included me).
I can completely cosign this quote by Gayle Reaves, who was also laid off: ”I’ve never had colleagues who were more dedicated to covering the people and the issues who usually don’t get enough attention from the news media.”
I appreciate that the media is not staying silent on this topic. It's infuriating, it's unfair, it's unnecessary, and it only benefits the few at the top. It needs to stop and we all need to demand that it stops.
Business Insider: Tech layoffs are hitting companies that are doing just fine.
Translation: "We noticed that, when we cut jobs, the remaining employees worked harder to compensate. So we figured we could cut more jobs, squeezing more out of them while spending less. Win/lose!"
This is the fundamental conflict of interest between employer and employee. It is why unions came to be; to counterbalance the singular power of management.