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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by rwmj »

barbegal wrote: post #30
mr_gibbins wrote: post #11

I wish there was some kind of list for the UK. Our news services are shockingly bad.

Although lots of UK companies won't be making any redundancies until the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme ends. It's much easier to put UK workers on the 80% pay furlough scheme than firing them. As soon as that money dries up expect companies to make lots of mass redundancies. It's going to be interesting to see the UK government's exit strategy from this crisis, immediately terminating the scheme before the economy…

What's particularly interesting is that to make people redundant you have to notify them 6 weeks before. And 6 weeks before the end of the government guaranteed furlough period is ... today.

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Post by sylvinus »

jmchuster wrote: post #60
sbt wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would you characterize the quality of CircleCI? I've spent quite a few hours trying to work out mysterious bugs in a build process that runs fine locally. This morning the web ui was full of 'client error' messages.

We've seen great results since switching from Circle to Buildkite, not the least of which is cost, but you have to be willing to do a little bit of your own IT work.

I second Buildkite, one of the best choices we made at my previous company.

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Post by petercooper »

tobych wrote: post #27

Can someone please change the title of this - just as with other similar posts - to use "laid-off" instead of "fired"? Regardless of how loose some may be with language, there's a clear distinction between these terms. For example, my home state's Employment Security Department: https://esd.wa.gov/unemployment/laid-off-or-fired Given that there are non-US readers here, maybe there's another pair of phrases that Hacke…

I know in the UK, "made redundant" is used instead of "laid-off".

Yes, though most Brits would pragmatically accept the term "laid-off" as covering redundancy, though formally a "lay-off" is the same as furloughing in the UK (i.e. not permanent).

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by elric »

mothsonasloth wrote: post #57
Austin_Conlon wrote: post #44

Ask HN: Who is looking to be fired?

Not looking to be fired but this whole working from home business is getting me down (been WFH for 6 weeks now). Video calls with friends and co-workers doesn't cut it, plus the 1 hour mandatory exercise. I'd rather change jobs and be outside chopping wood or something that is "productive".

Mandatory exercise? How does that work?

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sciurus wrote: post #21

My previous two employers, Lonely Planet and Eventbrite. https://www.protocol.com/eventbrite-major-layoffs-coronaviru... https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/04/09/14...

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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by me_me_me »

bsanr2 wrote: post #39
lukax wrote: post #12

In some companies it feels like they are firing the people that they could not easily get rid of otherwise - cutting of the bottom 25% of staff (based on low performance reviews or personal grudges).

Statistically-speaking, this will disproportionately effect women and minorities (low performance reviews !necessarily= low performance when implicit bias is present, which again, statistically-speaking, it is). Certainly these times suck for everyone, but there go the careers of black, brown, and female millennials with yet another black mark on their CVs before they've hit their 40s.

Having not worked in USA, I always wonder how valid such comments are.

Never really felt such thing being anything but odd ball case in Europe.

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Post by acruns »

squiggleblaz wrote: post #62
inglor wrote: post #16

From an anonymous employee I know: SimilarWeb fired 10% of their workforce - mostly sales engineers and sales people they recently hired and cancelled their holiday bonuses.

What's a sales engineer? Is it just a higher ranked sales person?

They are the technical person on the sales team. They do demo's, field technical questions, might do a POC with a potential customer, so on. They also get a commission but they traditionally have a standard salary as well instead of the sales rep where their salary might be 60% or more commission only.
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