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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by barbegal »

mnw21cam wrote: post #116
tomp wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> cut all employee salaries by 10% across the board How does that work exactly? I imagine you're presented with a contract that says "you salary is now 0.9>"* and you're also told (or heavily implied) that if you don't sign, you're fired. Surely the employer can't just start paying you less than specified in your original contract? And maybe if you don't sign, you're owed some benefits (but who wants to be jobless go…

Yes, if you decide not to sign the new contract, and they fire you because of it, you can take them to tribunal for it. It's illegal.

IANAL but it's not always illegal. If a company has a choice between going bust and imposing pay cuts on everyone then that is perfectly legal.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by fooker »

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.

When you claim to be speaking statistically, shouldn't you also cite some statistics?

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by loriverkutya »

mothsonasloth wrote: post #95
elric wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mandatory exercise? How does that work?

In the UK you are only allowed out once a day for 1 hour maximum

Thats not true, if you want to run 4 hours, you are allowed:

"one form of exercise a day, for example a run, walk, or cycle - alone or with members of your household"

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-outbr...

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by emerongi »

roadbeats wrote: post #100

Can we say that the layoffs are mostly happening in US ? I can't see that trend in Europe, correct me if I'm wrong.

If you're basing this view off of HN, then remember that HN generally has a high percentage of users from US/SV/VC scene.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by McMini »

danesparza wrote: post #119

God this brings back memories of fuckedcompany.com Right after September 11th, that site got very popular among engineers like me -- seeing (on a daily basis) which company bloodbath was next. It was kind of fun, until it was our company.

What did the site show?

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by dirtydroog »

WhyNotHugo wrote: post #99
throwaway9002 wrote: post #77

Playtech in London isn't firing but cut all employee salaries by 10% across the board. The CEO just awarded himself a 30mil bonus: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/playtech-plan-to-pay-boss...

Wow, I didn't think any developed country allowed employers to legally cut an employees salary.

Well, they do have to ask your permission to do so. And if you say no, then...

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by mardifoufs »

roadbeats wrote: post #100

Can we say that the layoffs are mostly happening in US ? I can't see that trend in Europe, correct me if I'm wrong.

Why would it be? Europe is getting hit a lot harder and its economy is quickly collapsing. European banks were also weaker and less stress resistant than their US's counterparts so their ability to lend isn't a strong. Same thing for the EU corporations themselves, who are usually more in debt and have less access to non-bank financing (ie public bonds markets). So I'd be really surprised if we saw more lay offs in the US at the end of this

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

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Post by slifin »

anonymousci wrote: post #7

CircleCI. Last week during covid crisis, all while announcing a $100m Series E round of financing, they let some employees go and did not offer any severance. Disorganized management, and with some teams, passive-aggressive management style. Would not recommend joining...

I don't know much about CircleCI but my understanding is that they are a Clojure shop but (one of?) their founder(s) moved on to Dark Lang

They're replacing their ClojureScript mishmash of libraries with a React action team because they couldn't onboard effectively

As a customer, I can see I'm being pushed into this new UI that I'm indifferent to but moving between the options is difficult

As a Clojurian & customer, I'm not sure any of this bodes well

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