Times are bleak.
Ask HN: Who Is Firing?
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#2Who's firing? Me. You're fired.
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#3I’ve been checking layoffs.fyi every day and it is incredibly bleak
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#4I’ve been checking layoffs.fyi every day and it is incredibly bleak
https://layoffs.fyi/ for the lazy
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#5Dixa sacked 31 people (25% of staff). They closed a $36M series B in February.
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#6I’ve been checking layoffs.fyi every day and it is incredibly bleak
This is looking 2001-dot-com-crash bad, but much, much faster.
It's worth remembering there are plenty of companies not laying people off, and "normal" will return eventually.
That said, I was watching The Big Short yesterday, and a line that I had noted before haunted me even more: "For every 1% unemployment goes up [in the USA], 40,000 people die".
Stay safe, stay positive.
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#7CircleCI.
Last week during covid crisis, all while announcing a $100m Series E round of financing, they let some employees go and did not offer any severance.
Disorganized management, and with some teams, passive-aggressive management style.
Would not recommend joining...
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#8I’ve been checking layoffs.fyi every day and it is incredibly bleak
And as far as I can tell that’s America only, nevermind Europe and Australia...
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#9I’ve been checking layoffs.fyi every day and it is incredibly bleak
This is looking 2001-dot-com-crash bad, but much, much faster. It's worth remembering there are plenty of companies not laying people off, and "normal" will return eventually. That said, I was watching The Big Short yesterday, and a line that I had noted before haunted me even more: "For every 1% unemployment goes up [in the USA], 40,000 people die". Stay safe, stay positive.
Things might be different now in ways that now have a different impact, but if you want to feel better, there's evidence that the Great Depression did not cause an increase in people dying[1].
> Population health did not decline and indeed generally improved during the 4 years of the Great Depression, 1930–1933, with mortality decreasing for almost all ages, and life expectancy increasing by several years in males, females, whites, and nonwhites.
(Although, significantly, it does note that suicides increased, and another study found no increase in life expectancy, but no real change outside of suicides and car accidents.[2])
1: https://www.pnas.org/content/106/41/17290 2: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324202055.h...
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#10I’ve been checking layoffs.fyi every day and it is incredibly bleak
This is looking 2001-dot-com-crash bad, but much, much faster. It's worth remembering there are plenty of companies not laying people off, and "normal" will return eventually. That said, I was watching The Big Short yesterday, and a line that I had noted before haunted me even more: "For every 1% unemployment goes up [in the USA], 40,000 people die". Stay safe, stay positive.
> "For every 1% unemployment goes up [in the USA], 40,000 people die".
I have seen that line too, but I wonder how substantiated this is? Is there any data to support it?