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Don't think of it as 2000 job cuts, think of it as 2000 prisoners set free. Inertia can be a difficult force to combat when working for a large company. From p
by pacaro 15y ago
Don't think of it as 2000 job cuts, think of it as 2000 prisoners set free.
Inertia can be a difficult force to combat when working for a large company. From personal experience, being layer off, or having a project cancelled, is the ultimate incentive to find something better.
Of course this is stressful, and no severance package makes much difference to the stress of a real human being with responsibilities and bills to pay, but I do believe that the upside is significantly bigger than the downside
- xp84 15y agoare you saying Y! is not paying severance or just speaking about "no severance" situations in general?
- camiller 15y agoIt's only stressful if you let it be. When I was lay'ed off from a previous position (with 6 months severance) it was the best thing that had happened to me in a long time. I even turned down the first job offer I had, cause I didn't really like how that company wasn't investing in upgrading their infrastructure. Now, my wife's stress level, well that is another discussion.
- courtewing 15y agoI don't think that is a fair assessment of the situation. While some people may be in a position where getting laid off from their job is a welcomed incentive to pursue bigger and better things, there are also those people that rely on that steady income to pay their bills and keep their families clothed, fed, educated, and healthy. I also want to say, although I don't mean to imply that this was your personal assumption, that not every person working for a technical company in the valley is a risk taking entrepreneur. Some people just like to program.
- pacaro 15y agoI agree, each of the 2000 is an individual human with their own narrative. The worst mistake management can make is to forget that humanity.
- 5teev 15y agoI expect they're also targeting a lot of senior (read: high-salary) employees who are more likely to be the family bread-winner types. (Although for legal reasons Yahoo! will go to great pains to point out that they are not in any way targeting older employees.)
- simplekoala 15y agoI am under the impression that laid off employees are going out with a good severance package. If it is true that there is no severance for laid off employees, then it is brutal