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Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by zigzaggy »

Ididntdothis wrote: post #63
3pt14159 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry to hear that dude. Haskell is a demanding language, so you're almost certainly a pretty senior dev. If so, consider volunteering to help organizations during the downtime. Worst case, if you can't get that dream gig back it will certainly make your resume stand out when you're looking for your next thing. Best of luck.

Where can people volunteer with tech skills? Is there a demand for it?

New York has a tech response team that you can volunteer with to help out: https://www.ny.gov/programs/new-york-state-covid-19-technolo...

See HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22723098

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by mercutio2 »

pmiller2 wrote: post #61
alberth wrote: post #9

My heart goes out to all who've lost their job (and those who's health has been impacted by COVID-19). In case you want to get perspective of the huge US impact of unemployment, see this automated visualization. https://t.co/G5k24nxJRS

I’d be more interested in seeing the actual unemployment rate presented like this, not the weekly claim numbers.

March numbers for overall unemployment rate have been published, but they’re wildly inaccurate because their reference date is mid-month, before most layoffs started.

So we don’t really know yet with precision, but it’s getting close to Great Recession levels.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by avip »

ithrow wrote: post #37
cammikebrown wrote: post #24

I’m a bartender. At least 75% of my friends have been laid off. Not just bartenders, but servers, bussers, most cooks, managers, and everyone I know who works in hotels as well.

Just curious, how does a bartender ends up staying reading HN?

If you read this forum carefully you'll find it indeed contains constructors, truck drivers, firefighters, pilots, physicians, teachers... just to name a few from memory.

All these "non-developers" are priceless when discussions pop up which require domain expertise (which we developers usually lack)

[edit: they are also priceless generally speaking]

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by 01100011 »

cammikebrown wrote: post #24

I’m a bartender. At least 75% of my friends have been laid off. Not just bartenders, but servers, bussers, most cooks, managers, and everyone I know who works in hotels as well.

My brother tends bar at a golf course. They furloughed him until the end of April with pay. Hopefully he can go back to work after that.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by thisisbrians »

siberianbear wrote: post #55
kickout wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not in tech either, but I like reading and casually following the scene. Kinda funny watching the language flame-wars every so often

That's an interesting response. It seems to me that the flame level on this site is quite low in response to somewhere like Reddit. People argue here, of course, but usually it's in an informational sort of way and rarely devolves into "yer momma is soooo fat...." kind of discourse.

Yeah, you're right. Civil disagreement is allowed here on HN; anything else gets downvoted into oblivion.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by conradfr »

Fired officially next week but to be honest it was ongoing before the lockdown;)

On the bright side it seems the tech job market is not too much affected here in Paris but we'll see how it goes.

Well at least I can now finish some freelance gig that was taking my free time, and it gives me more time to continue learning elixir, I even finally took the time to open-source and deploy a demo of a LiveView game I made initially at the company that let me go. https://every-weak-tapaculo.gigalixirapp.com/potus

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by seniordevconfuz »

I woke up today with a nice surprise from HR. I got laid off. It was the most impersonal and robotic email I received.

20 minutes later all my accounts got disabled, not a chance to even say farewell to my nice co-workers.

It sucks. I don't have a ton of savings. Luckily my car is paid off, and I only have student loans left.

I was very tempted to inflate my lifestyle after I got a big raise.

I didn't do it, otherwise i'd be in a world of shit.

At least I can survive for a couple month or so.

Stay strong people

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by noir_lord »

zero_shift wrote: post #5

Just been put on furlough with likely redundancy at the end of the national lockdown period. Absolutely devastated. My job was hard and the pace relentless but the work was extremely stimulating and my colleagues were absolutely fantastic people. (It was also a Haskell gig, which is a real rarity.) Right now I'm just licking my wounds and waiting for the lockdown to end. I'm not sure if it makes sense to start a new…

> so unless you're actually losing money on furlough

Also UK and I am losing money as it's 80% up to 2500 pre month if your employer doesn't top it up, so for me that's a large pay cut, that said given the way things are I'm happy to take that cut knowing I'll still have twice what I need to cover the next 3 months before I have to touch my savings.

Whether I'll have a job at the end of whatever the lockdown period ends up been I've no idea, I think most likely I will but we'll have to wait and see, fortunately I'd been saving so I have enough to cover me from June well into next year in my "can access this money right now" account.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by gwbas1c »

My job of 9 years ended the last day of February. My plan was to take two weeks off and start looking for another job mid-March.

I've been ready to change jobs, but I find job searches while I have a job frustrating. Each opportunity is a huge investment in time. Honestly, I find it easier to search for a job when I can give it my full and undivided attention.

To make a long story short, I dropped a hint that I was ready to leave voluntarily under the right circumstances, but I didn't anticipate the whole COVID-19 thing happening just as I was starting my job search. I never anticipated that, the exact week that I planned on looking for a job, daycare would close, and everyone else in the industry would join the job search.

So anyway, what am I looking for? Priorities:

0: You can pay me

1: You need someone with almost 20 years development experience

2a: Ideally, I'd like to join an early stage company that has a "bubblegum and duct tape" version of their product on the marketplace, and now needs someone to make it better

2b: Or, I'd like to join a company with demonstrated product-market fit and write the first version of their product

3: I'd like to work with some languages, frameworks, toolkits that I don't have experience with (But otherwise, I have about 18 years experience in C#)

4: I don't really care if it's web, mobile, desktop, full-stack, ect. (But the last 9 years was a desktop product.)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-rondeau-56490a4/

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by avip »

01100011 wrote: post #74
cammikebrown wrote: post #24

I’m a bartender. At least 75% of my friends have been laid off. Not just bartenders, but servers, bussers, most cooks, managers, and everyone I know who works in hotels as well.

My brother tends bar at a golf course. They furloughed him until the end of April with pay. Hopefully he can go back to work after that.

Isn't it a tiny bit optimistic to assume this "will be over" by end of April?
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