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The mirror image of this churn happened after the recovery from the dotcom bust. During the bust, tech workers took ANY job, no matter how terrible, and held o
by adrianmonk 4y ago
The mirror image of this churn happened after the recovery from the dotcom bust.
During the bust, tech workers took ANY job, no matter how terrible, and held on for dear life so they didn't end up unemployed for 2 years. Finally, the market recovered, and companies experienced turnover as people finally had the opportunity to move to greener pastures.
- MikePlacid 4y ago> During the bust, tech workers took ANY job, no matter how terrible Same feeling, but from a bit different perspective. During the dotcom bust I’ve learned to love layoff periods. Cause then friends and neighbors from friendly and neighborly other teams suddenly started to look for more work instead of looking for less work - and my life became a bit easier. At the time my team of 2 (two) was handling 12 (twelve) rather simple but important projects. Steve and his team of 4 (four) in Denver was handling 1 (one) similar project. Then the bust came, and the prospect of layoffs. And here we are at the meeting where I am transferring three of my projects to Steve’s team. After the meeting Paul, a PM from France - we enjoyed working together, asked me, puzzled: Mike, why on earth haven’t you fought to keep your projects?? And I go: Paul, I have nine more of these - do you want some?