Total fired count would be a nice addition.
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#22I first laughed out actually, but I think it's a good idea and I helped with a contribution. I like other people also think this would be a helpful tool for recruiters and could also be a good tool just for researching employers current or historical firings.
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#23Are 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.
Call me weird but the part I wish I had been a part of was the easy money.
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#24What is the aggregator you use for this information ?
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#25Please 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.
> I prefer it far more than the endless stream of (...) Containerization posts on HN.
Yeah, I'm starting to feel containers are the new Erlang here.
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#26Are 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
I've been fired twice. Both times it was more of a relief. Once because I engaged too much in my work, took it too seriously. Other time was due to me not liking the atmosphere but having made the decision to "make it work anyways". Both times the reason given on the pink slip was cutbacks and I left both jobs with nice letters of reccommendation. Not every layoff is a bad experience.
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#27Should this be considered Fucked Company 2.0, nine years after the original site closed? Edit: The original name was apparently also a pun (Fast Company).
That's the very first thing I thought of when I saw it.
RIP Fucked Company.
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#28Please 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…
Make an app called "As Seen On HN", post about it, then the cycle will be complete and we can go back to the regular smorgasbord of things that get posted here.
Taken a step further, a webapp that tracks businesses that emerge from different online communities would be super useful for improving commercial targeting of social media, and with a delay on content updates baked in for free users could probably find a good group of paying ones.
The best way to kill a fad is to build it up to the point where it loses its novelty.
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#29This sounds like a fantastic tool for insider trading!
By the time you see it on this site (or the news for that matter) their stock is already falling. Most trades these days are automated.
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#30This could be useful. Looking forward to see how you iterate. Some features i would like to see in the future:
- email notification similar to haveibeenpwned e.g. for company email
- company logo (e.g. using Clearbit logo api)
- fields for amount of jobs cut, main location/area
- some way for people who are impacted to confirm the cuts (e.g. via company email domain) similar to upvotes maybe
- related firings of the same company
- company search