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

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by xster » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 6:58 PM UTC

pstuart wrote: post #65

cammikebrown wrote: post #62

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I have a physics degree. It turns out a bachelor’s degree doesn’t help much, and I was too burnt out at the time to go to grad school. I took a few introductory programming classes and I’ve been trying to get back into it lately. Try talking to a bartender sometime, you may find out they’re not as dumb as rocks.

> Try talking to a bartender sometime, you may find out they’re not as dumb as rocks. AOC has done an excellent job in that regard :-)

Though sad that she's now taking marching orders from Pelosi now https://www.nationalreview.com/news/aoc-drifts-away-from-act...

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by kamarg » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 6:58 PM UTC

SamWhited wrote: post #23

20% paycut here. This comes after being laid off a few months ago when Docker sold their enterprise version (sort of, the new company made us all offers but they have terrible benefits among other problems so most people didn't take the offer or only stayed long enough to find something else), so we're all a bit sad. There was then an immediate around of layoffs right after that (though thankfully my department wasn'…

> I wish the employees had a seat at the negotiating table for any of this

If the tech industry didn't seem to despise unionizing so much this could've been possible. Maybe that will change once the current disaster is behind us.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by sumofi » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 7:01 PM UTC

cammikebrown wrote: post #62

ithrow wrote: post #37

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

I have a physics degree. It turns out a bachelor’s degree doesn’t help much, and I was too burnt out at the time to go to grad school. I took a few introductory programming classes and I’ve been trying to get back into it lately. Try talking to a bartender sometime, you may find out they’re not as dumb as rocks.

Hn is very it specific. I wouldn't thought that you find many bartenders here for the soul reason that those two interests or occupations are just different independent to intelligence.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by oarabbus_ » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 7:02 PM UTC

seniordevconfuz wrote: post #77

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, otherwis…

My partner's friend had a large number of people let go during a zoom meeting. It was horribly planned, several people showed up 3-5 minutes late each time they had to say "you're laid off" yet again, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by boopk » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 7:06 PM UTC

Work in entertainment marketing (theatrical trailers and promos) as a finishing coordinator (uprezzing, overcutting, versioning with different dated cards, exporting different specs for different platforms, etc) and out whole industry has essentially been furloughed. It sucks and I don't think it will be temporary, I think a lot of shops will close.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by kickout » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 7:06 PM UTC

erikbye wrote: post #132

kickout wrote: post #42

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

How do you find HN compares to Slashdot?

Don't read slashdot (never seen it TBH)

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by klunger » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 7:06 PM UTC

lb1lf wrote: post #88

-I just got laid off after 15 years at an engineering company, the last couple of which I was an engineering manager/technical authority. Prospects aren’t too bleak - the local engineering scene is pretty sound and I’ve heard encouraging noises from a couple of companies I’d love to work for - however, while the country is in lockdown and everybody is burning through their cash pile, not much hiring gets done. On the…

Since you are Norwegian, and presumably working for a Norwegian company, I am curious how such a layoff was possible. Was it an actual layoff or are you permittert?

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by shdon » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 7:08 PM UTC

Here in the Netherlands, the government have taken the action to help out affected companies fulfil their payroll obligations, meaning the govt is effectively paying the salaries of an extra million people (12% of our total workforce).

As the only IT guy in a company that does pretty much all its business online, and being the longest-serving employee in the company, my job is safer than anybody else's, but we have seen revenue plummet and we're having to let some people go - which is heartbreaking. Even though our society will make sure that they will not be in real trouble, and it ensures the survival of the company, these are valued coworkers and genuinely nice people and I'm sad to see them go.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by daxfohl » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 7:09 PM UTC

Had a pretty steady contracting gig doing fun new things for a photobooth company. Not any more!

Fortunately I have a few other things to pay the bills (so far), and fortunately I have enough savings not to have any short-term worries, but that was my main source of income.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by ativzzz » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 7:09 PM UTC

hackinthebochs wrote: post #114

topherPedersen wrote: post #31

I landed my first job as full-time professional software developer doing React-Native development right before the Coronavirus pandemic struck. By the time I finished filling out all of the hiring paperwork, drug tests, etc., they reneged on the offer. Was pretty upset about it at the time, but I guess it's hit everyone else just as hard.

Where was the job located? It seems odd that you had to take a drug test for the job. I don't think I've heard of that happening in the tech field.

Tons of non-tech companies drug test, and they have lots of tech roles.