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Tech layoffs reveal the unintended consequences of mass job cuts

• belter 2y ago
  https://archive.is/Zg44e https://archive.is/Zg44e
• bell-cot 2y ago
  Clicky headline, reveal in Subtitle: > After mass layoffs, tech workers lost trust in their employers. Federal employees may soon face the same fate. Beyond that - maybe it's a nice human interest story, but it's only "news" for today's 10K.
  • ttyprintk 2y ago
    I feel like that’s even more pronounced among those who are not laid off. You watched Robin succeed as a project manager only to be laid off randomly. Do you: adapt? try to subserviently please the randomness? clandestinely position yourself with a competitor’s recruiters?
    • bell-cot 2y ago
      > Do you: adapt? try to ... Review your own budget numbers, in light of the new market data. Rightsize your loyalty to your current employer. And other PHBisms, adroitly tuned to describe your personal ability to adapt to the fast-changing situation. Serious bonus points if you can infect your coworkers with such phrases - but try to not get caught.
      • ttyprintk 2y ago
        Totally agree that knowing if you’re a source of revenue or an expense. But do your others beat the strategy of predicting (maybe looking at other departments) the characteristics of the next round of layoffs? Things got too Agile and lost the ball. We dramatically overestimated the sophistication of our fourth quintile of users. Product competes with a startup that’s so sexy it’ll operate at a loss until 2027.