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Not technically "firing" I suppose but all of the dev org in Atlanta and SF, including myself, were laid off at athenahealth last week. Something like 120 people. Sucks.
What's the difference between being fired and laid off?
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Because having a mass layoff is an easy way to reduce non productive people. Otherwise you have to go through a complicated process for each individual, with a higher risk to be sued.
How come in a right to work regimen like the states how is it hard? you can just say "we have decided to cut back marketing head count by 20%"
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We need to see someone follow sci-hub.cc lead and put the server and public face in Russia.
As luck would have it I'm Russian. Do you think it would take off if I would do it for real? Should we poll the community in an "Ask HN" thread to see if people want this?
Not technically "firing" I suppose but all of the dev org in Atlanta and SF, including myself, were laid off at athenahealth last week. Something like 120 people. Sucks.
Wow. I interned at athenahealth Summer 2015 in SF. Hope things work out for you. Did you work on Epocrates?
Luckily I knew this was coming, as my project wasn't feasible. Oddily enough this is my second contract with the company. Same thing happened the first time around. On to greener pastures I hope.
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Berlin startups are infamous for hiring foreigners from countries with low salaries, ideally from outside of EU (so no free movement of workers with Germany) and paying them below the market salary. Low pay + dealing with German bureaucracy + sky rocketing prices of everything in Berlin = person has a problem. As for Axel Springer - their understanding of internet innovation is quite... "skewed". e.g. as some kind of…
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Care to elaborate?
Berlin startups are infamous for hiring foreigners from countries with low salaries, ideally from outside of EU (so no free movement of workers with Germany) and paying them below the market salary. Low pay + dealing with German bureaucracy + sky rocketing prices of everything in Berlin = person has a problem. As for Axel Springer - their understanding of internet innovation is quite... "skewed". e.g. as some kind of…
Also because the EU bluecard has a salary requirement, so they usually pays you the lower limit at least in order to get you here. That's the situation of my Mexican friend, he changed job as soon as he worked in the company for a year and get better paid.