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TLDR: a few screens of rumblings about how a person was informed that he/she was laid off as part of big (25%) company laid off

m0llusk 8y ago
You got distracted by the emphasis on details in recollection of this poignant experience. > We’ve spent the last few months tweaking the product I work on, running tests and trying to come up with ways of increasing engagement, because not enough customers are renewing their subscriptions. So serious problems were visible to everyone, but somehow the possibility of job loss was not made clear. This is partly management, but to some extent a full blown sector wide social problem where we distract each other with stories and beliefs that are false until it is too late to react with a realistic assessment of the potential down sides. > That was nearly two years ago now, back in the middle of 2017. It had been the perfect job for me. ... I spent the next couple of months job hunting. ... world had become a lot bigger and more complicated while I was working in that company, and we hadn’t kept up And moving on was difficult, involved a lot of rejection, and didn't even properly start until after a major career course correction. > Looking back now, my old job wasn’t nearly as perfect as I thought it was at the time. ... I had stopped growing. There is the lesson, and it is a pretty robust one that applies to many readers here. "If...you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." --Catherine Aird
- shaklee3 8y ago
  I read the whole thing. It seemed like an article with zero content. That all sounded perfectly normal, and happens to lots of people. I'm not sure it really needed an entire article.
  - amoitnga 8y ago
    A agree with you somewhat, and yet I read it. some takeaways for me, even though not groundbreaking but rather reinforcements of > your perfect job may very well not be > change is scary, but in the end it'll work out (hopefully) > don't get too comfortable - hope for the best, expect the worst.
  - cwilkes 8y ago
    I think you just described all of John Updike’s novels. Maybe it seemed normal to you as you’ve gone through it but what about the person that hasn’t? They are probably experiencing the same fears and self doubt that the author was. I’m not sure what you mean by zero content. What were you looking for? The name of the company? That it failed 2 years down the road after they didn’t develop a product as this developer was laid off?
    - shaklee3 8y ago
      None of that, but to some extent you can't fill a blog with stories like this. It's not really original content. It's happened to so many people, and they eventually find a job, just like this person did. By zero content I mean a reader will come away from it with no new knowledge, and it will be forgotten soon after.
- stronglikedan 8y ago
  To me, it read like more like a veiled rant than a lesson. I just hope it was cathartic for the author, at least. I know it is for me when I put my frustrations into words. Although, I usually just delete those words when I'm done.
JackFr 8y ago
No. TLDR: Don't confuse a comfortable job with the perfect job.

m0llusk 8y ago

You got distracted by the emphasis on details in recollection of this poignant experience. > We’ve spent the last few months tweaking the product I work on, running tests and trying to come up with ways of increasing engagement, because not enough customers are renewing their subscriptions. So serious problems were visible to everyone, but somehow the possibility of job loss was not made clear. This is partly management, but to some extent a full blown sector wide social problem where we distract each other with stories and beliefs that are false until it is too late to react with a realistic assessment of the potential down sides. > That was nearly two years ago now, back in the middle of 2017. It had been the perfect job for me. ... I spent the next couple of months job hunting. ... world had become a lot bigger and more complicated while I was working in that company, and we hadn’t kept up And moving on was difficult, involved a lot of rejection, and didn't even properly start until after a major career course correction. > Looking back now, my old job wasn’t nearly as perfect as I thought it was at the time. ... I had stopped growing. There is the lesson, and it is a pretty robust one that applies to many readers here. "If...you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." --Catherine Aird

shaklee3 8y ago
I read the whole thing. It seemed like an article with zero content. That all sounded perfectly normal, and happens to lots of people. I'm not sure it really needed an entire article.
- amoitnga 8y ago
  A agree with you somewhat, and yet I read it. some takeaways for me, even though not groundbreaking but rather reinforcements of > your perfect job may very well not be > change is scary, but in the end it'll work out (hopefully) > don't get too comfortable - hope for the best, expect the worst.
- cwilkes 8y ago
  I think you just described all of John Updike’s novels. Maybe it seemed normal to you as you’ve gone through it but what about the person that hasn’t? They are probably experiencing the same fears and self doubt that the author was. I’m not sure what you mean by zero content. What were you looking for? The name of the company? That it failed 2 years down the road after they didn’t develop a product as this developer was laid off?
  - shaklee3 8y ago
    None of that, but to some extent you can't fill a blog with stories like this. It's not really original content. It's happened to so many people, and they eventually find a job, just like this person did. By zero content I mean a reader will come away from it with no new knowledge, and it will be forgotten soon after.
stronglikedan 8y ago
To me, it read like more like a veiled rant than a lesson. I just hope it was cathartic for the author, at least. I know it is for me when I put my frustrations into words. Although, I usually just delete those words when I'm done.

JackFr 8y ago

No. TLDR: Don't confuse a comfortable job with the perfect job.