> get the rest of the year's worth of pay
Damn, last time I got laid off I got two weeks severance after five years of employment. I didn’t even get to keep the laptop.
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#82"We won't share a list of the affected employees because some of them might not want the information to be public" was the biggest bullshit I've heard recently - no fiction needed. Discovering that people you worked with for years have been laid off only because you randomly notice their slack is deactivated has to be one of 2024s gifts to humanity.
I really don’t get why companies won’t allow limited access to email at least to send a goodbye message and contact details to their colleagues. You could spin up new email boxes if you are worried about them downloading emails even. It just seems really cold to not let people say goodbye and point their colleagues to their LinkedIn so they can get some recommendations and such. For the companies that allow this I sa…
Could be they want to avoid the remaining employees getting emails saying Turns out the competition pay much better anyway.
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#83Is that really how these layoffs go? The HR person is belittling ("I need you to focus") and the employee passively takes the belittling. Here's a script the employee could have used. "Excuse me, I need to pause. I have never met you before this call. We are strangers. You demand my attention because you say you need it. To be fair, your needs are no more important than mine. One of my needs is to be treated with res…
You might enjoy this TikTok video of an ex-CloudFlare employee getting laid off by people she has never met, and responds as fiercely as your text. Except she's also trying to extract the actual reason she's being laid off, to no avail – yet still impressive how hard she's pressing those random HRs.
https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/194v9y8/ae_at...
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#84"We won't share a list of the affected employees because some of them might not want the information to be public" was the biggest bullshit I've heard recently - no fiction needed. Discovering that people you worked with for years have been laid off only because you randomly notice their slack is deactivated has to be one of 2024s gifts to humanity.
2024? It happened to me in 2020, right after Covid. I was unable to reach a colleague, thought he was sick (not unusual, he had health issues often). Until the “standup” rolled around and we were told he was laid off.
Apparently he himself found out after most of his logins were shut off.
Corporate world is as gutless as it is soulless
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#85This was a really fun read. I’ve only read a couple short stories ever that so narrowly focus on the technology of today, but I think it’s great. Such an effective and entertaining way of discussing what’s in the news cycle.
I agree the format is interesting. What are some other examples of short stories about technology, recent or less so?
Most short stories about technology are about it's role in society. Take a look at any of the winning or short-listed short stories from any reputable sci-fi award (like the Nebula or Locus) and you'll find them by the dozen.
I like stories by Asimov and Bradbury. If you're looking for something contemporary, take a gander at Ted Chiang.
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#86The day before the lay offs we are all inclusion, empathy, #goteam.
Then in a split second it's literally go f yourself. And don't make a scene or we will take your health insurance too.
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#87I’d read a book in this style if one was written, Xe! This is both entertaining and very well written
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the issue is rather that the manager tries to sugarcoat the fact that someone has died by using very abstract language.
Might have being going for “passed away” Managers are people too and will have their own emotions they are dealing with.
As a manager you have a responsibility to communicate this to your team and give them resources to deal with the emotions (you, the manager, being one of the resources).
So sure, you have your own stuff to deal with - use the resources you have for that (eg your manager) but when it comes time to face your team, be a professional and don’t shut down in front of them. They need you too.
Source: I’ve been in management positions and had to deal with a bunch of layoffs and yes, the occasional outright actual death.
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#89"We won't share a list of the affected employees because some of them might not want the information to be public" was the biggest bullshit I've heard recently - no fiction needed. Discovering that people you worked with for years have been laid off only because you randomly notice their slack is deactivated has to be one of 2024s gifts to humanity.
Step 1. A company lays off employees and shares the list.
Step 2. The list is shared on social media.
Step 3. A former employee that's on that list sues the company.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you think a class of folks with asymmetric access to a given resource, because of costs to access and use such resources creating barrier to entry, would not use those very asymmetric resources to their advantage when possible? So long as the prediction is viable from a technological and execution level, I don’t see why it has to be labeled “doomer.” If it’s possible and people can exploit it to their advantag…
People have been saying the same thing about off/near-shoring for decades. "X will be replaced by cheaper Y" but that has not materialized in any way. If anything, the opposite has been proven as demand for high-skilled labor continue to push salaries and competition for positions up. The amount of AI is coming for X or AI will replace Y is so unfounded at this point, I'm chalking it up with FSD-levels of hype. It re…
I work at a company where the offshore developers are both cheaper and far stronger than the FTE's.
AI is coming for those FTE's. It's nowhere near replacing the good ones but we have such a glut of shitty developers in this industry and AI is absolutely coming for them.