Seems like team morale is at an all time low. Most people are just phoning it in at this point. Our business is doing great, but I guess that's not enough to maintain job security anymore. Feels like Q1 the execs are just waiting for annuals to come in to make their list, as there's been total radio silence since the holidays. I fully expect to be laid off in the next 2-3 months.
Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like they're just waiting for the axe to fall?
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Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like they're just waiting for the axe to fall?
#2Well its the grass hopper and the ant isn't it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper
If you've been the ant you'd have prepared for the winter. I guess in reality most of us fit somewhere in between the ant and the grasshopper. It'll teach us all a bit of prudence we'd do well to remember thereafter.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like they're just waiting for the axe to fall?
#3Yep, absolutely feel this way. Meanwhile they're asking for more and paying the same amount, and the market has dried up. Very hard to stay optimistic for the year.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like they're just waiting for the axe to fall?
#4Be pro-active. Get out and look elsewhere before you're trying to out-compete all those others that will be laid off from the company at the same time as you.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like they're just waiting for the axe to fall?
#5Yeah, and it’s a bit closer for me. I was asked to resign after not returning to the office when asked. I refused, hoping to get severance or unemployment insurance. I’m a few weeks past the deadline and am just waiting for HR to make their move.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like they're just waiting for the axe to fall?
#6Be prepared for a long haul, some of us without degrees are still looking a year later, despite having a decade of experience doing the role.
About the only offers I've gotten are a systems architect role starting at 50k, where they then come back on the second interview and say its 30k since I'm not qualified since I don't have a degree. Take it or leave it.
I have a decade of direct experience doing this work and have set up hundreds of clients with cloud or hybrid depending on regulatory requirements. 50k was low for that work, but now 30?
Bunch of scumbags out there.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like they're just waiting for the axe to fall?
#7Are you saying there's a time where you weren't constantly anticipating your entire life unraveling at a moment's notice?
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like they're just waiting for the axe to fall?
#8Are you saying there's a time where you weren't constantly anticipating your entire life unraveling at a moment's notice?
I get the meme of this, but I’ve noticed I am always thinking about what would happen or what I would do if/when I got fired.
1 perk of being childless is you really only have to worry about feeding yourself I guess
(I am not a childfree proponent)
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like they're just waiting for the axe to fall?
#9Be prepared for a long haul, some of us without degrees are still looking a year later, despite having a decade of experience doing the role. About the only offers I've gotten are a systems architect role starting at 50k, where they then come back on the second interview and say its 30k since I'm not qualified since I don't have a degree. Take it or leave it. I have a decade of direct experience doing this work and h…
Too low anyways but
Take it and keep looking
Or take it and maliciously comply with whatever they want in the most brutal way possible
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like they're just waiting for the axe to fall?
#10Well its the grass hopper and the ant isn't it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper If you've been the ant you'd have prepared for the winter. I guess in reality most of us fit somewhere in between the ant and the grasshopper. It'll teach us all a bit of prudence we'd do well to remember thereafter.
that's one interpretation!