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Re: Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

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Hi Richard, I'd like to donate towards retiring the debt you've personally guaranteed. How can I do this? Thanks for trying, it's more than most do. My genuine condolences you were unable to maintain traction due to the macro. (agree with 0des' sibling comment, hibernate the effort vs this being the death of it)

Does advertising your willingness publicly make it harder for him to negotiate?

Re: Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

#52
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Never heard of it, but sounds dangerous helping out rapists and murderers and such.

Perhaps, but unless you want a permanent under class of people unable to find real employment, there needs to be an on-ramp. Either someone is too dangerous to have in public (which case they should still be imprisoned), or they have served their sentence and their punishment is over.

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Re: Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

#53

When the economy and job market began storming back, we were inundated with inbound requests for our services. Our perseverance seemed to be paying off. Except now we were hit with a new gut punch: “The Great Resignation.” Now our workers were reticent to come back to work. And if they did accept a job, they’d often leave after only a few days. As in the workers you placed, employees of 70MR? Why would they leave aft…

Back to the way it was pre-pandemic. I work for a Fortune 100 company with great pay and fantastic benefits (I am on a 6 week paid sabbatical right now). But whereas before people would stay with the company for 5-10 years, now they are leaving in droves (not because anything bad is happening at the company, we are doing great) and nobody is sticking around.

Yes.. but we are talking of people leaving after a few days, this is not the great resignation here.

Re: Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

#55

Could the title please be changed to something that doesn't sound like HN itself is shutting down? This is incredibly misleading.

You gotta mail hn@ycombinator.com with stuff like this; there's no magic that causes admins to get alerts when comments like these are posted.

Re: Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

#56

Could the title please be changed to something that doesn't sound like HN itself is shutting down? This is incredibly misleading.

Yeah I got a big shock lol.. I'm not sure what 70MR is. Sounds like a parole thing? But it won't affect me. Sorry for those whom it does though!

Re: Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

#57
Sorry to hear. Sounds like a great service.

But curious about this...

> When the economy and job market began storming back, we were inundated with inbound requests for our services. Our perseverance seemed to be paying off. Except now we were hit with a new gut punch: “The Great Resignation.” Now our workers were reticent to come back to work. And if they did accept a job, they’d often leave after only a few days.

Why were they leaving after only a few days when before they weren't?

Re: Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

#58

When the economy and job market began storming back, we were inundated with inbound requests for our services. Our perseverance seemed to be paying off. Except now we were hit with a new gut punch: “The Great Resignation.” Now our workers were reticent to come back to work. And if they did accept a job, they’d often leave after only a few days. As in the workers you placed, employees of 70MR? Why would they leave aft…

Going to third the "need more information on this."

Are they job hopping, in which case wouldn't that also be a revenue stream for 70MR? Did they find that it was such a sellers' market that they didn't need 70MR's services to get good jobs anymore?

I never really understood this "shortage of workers / great resignation" phenomenon to begin with, so perhaps this specific situation would be a good one to use as a concrete example.

Re: Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

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When the economy and job market began storming back, we were inundated with inbound requests for our services. Our perseverance seemed to be paying off. Except now we were hit with a new gut punch: “The Great Resignation.” Now our workers were reticent to come back to work. And if they did accept a job, they’d often leave after only a few days. As in the workers you placed, employees of 70MR? Why would they leave aft…

I manage IT for an office and one of our hires said they got covid, took a month to join, and then when she showed up her manager decided to move her desk. I think maybe I got the desktop and a monitor moved before I was told to stop because she just quit. I can think of maybe 3 people in my office that have stayed for over a year, none on bad terms, just hopping jobs.

This seems like it relates a lot to the bizarre structure of hiring and salaries. You need to get any job and then any other employer will offer you a ~20% better one but no one will match inflation the next year let alone give you what they would offer if you worked somewhere else.
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