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I wrote about how my experience with layoffs at Silicon Graphics in 1999 turned out, in retrospect, to be extremely lucky bad luck: https://davepeck.org/2009/02
by davepeck 8y ago
I wrote about how my experience with layoffs at Silicon Graphics in 1999 turned out, in retrospect, to be extremely lucky bad luck: https://davepeck.org/2009/02/11/the-luckiest-bad-luck/ https://davepeck.org/2009/02/11/the-luckiest-bad-luck/
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- ghaff 8y agoYeah, I've been lucky as well. Got laid off shortly after 9/11 from a company that had been a really bad fit. But got a job with another quickly. Things ended up being a bit rough financially because of industry events but it wasn't terrible and I liked the work. Then when the writing was on the wall for that company I ended up with a new employer. It's been great across all dimensions and probably only happened because of what I was doing previously.
- hpcjoe 8y agoI remember those days. The worst layoff I remember, I was at an ACS meeting at the SGI booth when word of layoffs came. They nuked something like 1/3 of our team there. I escaped all of the layoffs, and finally had my fill of the VP Eng who told me that Linux clusters had no future, and big SMPs were how SGI was going to rise again. I turned in my resignation a week later (early 2001).