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I assume person posting this to HN is new to Blind. Blind is 90% trolling, and every single week, in each major company forum, there's a post about layoffs sta

I assume person posting this to HN is new to Blind. Blind is 90% trolling, and every single week, in each major company forum, there's a post about layoffs starting next week.

bin_bash 4y ago
it's so common that "source: my wife’s boyfriend at Amazon in the traffic org" is an inside joke you'll often see in response
hotpotamus 4y ago
I don't know much about Blind, but in my experience layoffs pretty much always follow the hiring freeze.
- justapassenger 4y ago
  Sure, there's high likelihood of that happening. That doesn't change the high chances of that post being trolling.
  - hotpotamus 4y ago
    Interesting; I suppose it's like the those who said Stadia would be shutdown as soon as it was announced in 2019.
- Macha 4y ago
  Sure, but if you have someone that always claims there will be flooding, it doesn't have any bearing on whether it will flood next week just because the weather forecast says it will rain next week and floods usually happen after rain. Maybe it will, maybe it won't, but the rain has a lot more to do with that than the "always claim a flood is coming" person.
rcarmo 4y ago
Well, to be fair, as a passive member, they have statistically been correct over the past semester. Also, Blind does lack coherency in rumors (and the toxic focus on compensation brings out the worst in people), but it has exploded during the pandemic due to WFH and newcomers seem to be less toxic. I've actually seen people give good advice there recently, so it's become a bit nicer, almost like Fishbowl (which has its own problems, but I digress). It's a bit like sitting on a stool at a very rowdy bar. You have ample evidence it's full of intoxicated people trying to assert themselves by showing off, but sometimes interesting facts spill out. (Edit: which is why police does sit in bars.)
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rdtsc 4y ago
In that way, it may be an attempt for a desperate employee to prevent it from happening. Create a rumor, send link to HN, share on Twitter, etc. Everyone starts talking about it, and it reaches the executives at Meta. They try extra hard to not validate it, and perhaps switch strategies if already planned on it. Though, in that same speculative direction, it could backfire and give them a great idea: "You know, we already took the PR brunt for for this rumor, might as well go ahead and lower our costs a bit of the next quarter".
- bin_bash 4y ago
  This post was made from someone at Google.
  - rcarmo 4y ago
    That just reminded me of this ongoing Blind thread, which borders on the hilarious (warning: some partisan toxicity, but also some prime snark): https://www.teamblind.com/post/Googlers-Are-Insufferable-qWzyJK7O https://www.teamblind.com/post/Googlers-Are-Insufferable-qWz...

I assume person posting this to HN is new to Blind. Blind is 90% trolling, and every single week, in each major company forum, there's a post about layoffs starting next week.

bin_bash 4y ago

it's so common that "source: my wife’s boyfriend at Amazon in the traffic org" is an inside joke you'll often see in response

hotpotamus 4y ago

I don't know much about Blind, but in my experience layoffs pretty much always follow the hiring freeze.

justapassenger 4y ago
Sure, there's high likelihood of that happening. That doesn't change the high chances of that post being trolling.
- hotpotamus 4y ago
  Interesting; I suppose it's like the those who said Stadia would be shutdown as soon as it was announced in 2019.
Macha 4y ago
Sure, but if you have someone that always claims there will be flooding, it doesn't have any bearing on whether it will flood next week just because the weather forecast says it will rain next week and floods usually happen after rain. Maybe it will, maybe it won't, but the rain has a lot more to do with that than the "always claim a flood is coming" person.

rcarmo 4y ago

Well, to be fair, as a passive member, they have statistically been correct over the past semester. Also, Blind does lack coherency in rumors (and the toxic focus on compensation brings out the worst in people), but it has exploded during the pandemic due to WFH and newcomers seem to be less toxic. I've actually seen people give good advice there recently, so it's become a bit nicer, almost like Fishbowl (which has its own problems, but I digress). It's a bit like sitting on a stool at a very rowdy bar. You have ample evidence it's full of intoxicated people trying to assert themselves by showing off, but sometimes interesting facts spill out. (Edit: which is why police does sit in bars.)

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rdtsc 4y ago

In that way, it may be an attempt for a desperate employee to prevent it from happening. Create a rumor, send link to HN, share on Twitter, etc. Everyone starts talking about it, and it reaches the executives at Meta. They try extra hard to not validate it, and perhaps switch strategies if already planned on it. Though, in that same speculative direction, it could backfire and give them a great idea: "You know, we already took the PR brunt for for this rumor, might as well go ahead and lower our costs a bit of the next quarter".

bin_bash 4y ago
This post was made from someone at Google.
- rcarmo 4y ago
  That just reminded me of this ongoing Blind thread, which borders on the hilarious (warning: some partisan toxicity, but also some prime snark): https://www.teamblind.com/post/Googlers-Are-Insufferable-qWzyJK7O https://www.teamblind.com/post/Googlers-Are-Insufferable-qWz...