Ask HN: Who has been laid off? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by Loughla » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 5:45 PM UTC

ithrow wrote: post #44

MivLives wrote: post #40

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Speculation: - Could be they have a hobby of computers - Could be they are still in school Not everyone who cares about tech news is working in the tech field.

HN is way more geeky/nerdy than your regular tech news, hence my curiosity.

Not really, it's just slower moving. For every 1 real geek tech post, there are two or three days of regular news things. I came here based on the slower, more thoughtful discussion. I'm in higher ed, not even close to tech.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by chrisjc » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 5:45 PM UTC

blackflame7000 wrote: post #10

chrisjc wrote: post #7

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25% here, plus taken on 2-3x workload (not related to the furlough situation). Edit... btw, 2-3x workload doesn't mean that i can actually complete 2-3x workload.

It would appear someone doesn't like you either at your company or god perhaps. No one treats people they care about like that

Sometimes it's just circumstance and timing... There were good intentions around what happened.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by brownindian » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 5:45 PM UTC

[Boston/DevOps] Not laid off yet, but we have been told that "Role eliminations" is coming. Those not getting laid off, are going on mandatory two-week furlough. Once week in April, and once in May. June onwards TBD. All as part of cost cutting.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by minimidge » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 5:45 PM UTC

kickout wrote: post #42

ithrow wrote: post #37

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

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

Obviously, Haskell is the superior option here. Anything else is a travesty.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by siberianbear » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 5:46 PM UTC

kickout wrote: post #42

ithrow wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by tj0 » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 5:46 PM UTC

Everyone took a 20% pay cut, lots of people have been furloughed so workload has also increased. Would've been nice to have had a voice in the company's decision; kinda caught between a rock and a hard place at this point.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by franksvalli » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 5:46 PM UTC

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?

Doing market research for the Ballmer Peak

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by redorb » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 5:48 PM UTC

I asked the owner for a 20% cut. We had some tough negotiations on my salary 2 years ago and I wanted to express my willingness to share the 'pain'. So far she hasn't taken me up on it.

*I don't know how to take the fact she hasn't taken me up on it :/ but I do adore the company ~ 13 years in service.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by Ididntdothis » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 5:49 PM UTC

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.

That’s bad. My work hours got reduced to 32 hours with corresponding pay cut. Not a big deal for me but I assume a lot of these people can barely make ends meet even while working. Let’s hope the unemployment benefits in the stimulus bill really work.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by throaweyprimy » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 5:49 PM UTC

mu_killnine wrote: post #8

I work for a very large player in the print industry (which is transitioning to 'multichannel marketing solutions provider'). I feel like my company has done the best they can (given our industry has already been under a lot of pressure prior to COVID) under circumstances. We're in groups of rolling furloughs so folks have not been permanently laid off. While laid off, we still are receiving medical benefits, which i…

I’m in the print industry too.

Things are definitely uncertain at the moment. Our company was fairly small, and we were growing incredibly fast. COVID19 has cut our sales by 90%. As an industry with high fixed costs, this is devastating and I’ll most likely be laid-off in a coming weeks.

I spent years trying to get this company off the ground, and as soon as we picked up steam the market tanked.

I have my doubts about the long term recovery of the print market, so I think this is will be my exit from the industry.