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>hitting the middle-upper class super hard What are you talking about? White collars are working from home, by and large. None of my engineer friends have lo

• greenyoda 7y ago
  > None of my engineer friends have lost their jobs yet Most middle-upper class employees are not engineers. > White collars are working from home People can only work from home if they work for a company that has money to pay them - a company that hasn't shut down due to lack of business. A white collar employee working for an airline, hotel chain or car manufacturer (and all of these huge companies have huge ranks of middle/upper management in marketing, operations, HR, accounting, etc.) probably doesn't have a lot of job security right now. Also, the key word in your sentence is "yet". I'm a software developer, and I'm sure that if my employer's revenues drop significantly during the upcoming recession, layoffs will be inevitable.
• cassalian 7y ago
  Not every software department has been so lucky... I had similar thoughts to you and what do you know? A quarter of my team was let go yesterday.
• sciurus 7y ago
  In contrast, in the Atlanta and Nashville focused tech slack teams I'm a part of almost every day I see more developers announcing they've been laid off. My last two employers have had massive layoffs that included developers.
• notyourday 7y ago
  That's because we are only in the fourth week of this. The revenue of non-essential companies plummeted. They are going to start cutting headcount by mid-may.