This sounds like a fantastic tool for insider trading!
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#12Awesome. Really need the ability to search by company name - so we can find out how a company is before joining (or while inside).
Yes, searching will coming up as well.
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#13Now we just need whowantstobefired.com to complete the circle
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#14So this seems to be aimed at people looking for a job, in the hopes of avoiding said companie. What about all the poor folks in said companies that will fear of being let go because some disgruntled employee decided to post a fake rumor?
All the posted sites (so far) include a reference to a relevant news article.
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#15Are pink slip parties coming back too? I feel like I missed a big part of SV culture by being in high school back then. Would be cool to experience again.
It's never cool to experience getting fired. The first couple of times are like gut punches, no matter how many pink slip parties there are, the voice in your head always says "if you were better in this way "they" would not have fired you"
As it goes on you get less gut punched, but it's never nice. It's why companies that don't deserve it have a lot of employee loyalty
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#16Please pardon my negativity but i'm tired of this trend of taking something that span discussion on HN and making it into an app as soon as possible, then posting it on HN. It's getting out of control since the old geek jobs article on Indiehackers. There's now at least one of these posts per week and they're less and less interesting. It's not showing cool tech or a cool idea, it's just trying to capitalize on the i…
I'm actually very excited for this CRUD site; it'll provide valuable macroeconomic data around the tech industry (have we hit the inflection point yet? Is the market popping or slowly deflating? How quickly?). I prefer it far more than the endless stream of Go, JavaScript, Elixr, React, Containerization posts on HN.
It's a canary in the coal mine, and if you work in tech, it should interest you.
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#17You know, it's not always a bad thing. Layoffs of course are unfortunate events and have a negative connotation.
But recruiters often use these news to contact people that potentially got laid off or is at risk of being laid off, and sometimes that is of great help.
Probably the website could also offer a job board?
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#19Now we just need whowantstobefired.com to complete the circle
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#20Please pardon my negativity but i'm tired of this trend of taking something that span discussion on HN and making it into an app as soon as possible, then posting it on HN. It's getting out of control since the old geek jobs article on Indiehackers. There's now at least one of these posts per week and they're less and less interesting. It's not showing cool tech or a cool idea, it's just trying to capitalize on the i…
Then don't participate. I actually find this idea very interesting and would love to subscribe to notifications about which companies are laying off workers or see trends about how many people are being laid off per week/month. As an investor, this is a nice data point that shows the health of the tech sector. What exactly is wrong with capitalizing on interest here? Sounds smart to me - you know you're solving a rea…
Seriously, uncovering data on lay offs and firings can only better people. I think HN keeps having ideas pop off like this precisely by its nature. If you go to a local automotive club there's going to be a lot of side projects on display. I would worry about HN becoming stale and (worse) irrelevant if it weren't doing these things.