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Re: Shutting Down Clear Linux OS

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Post by kijiki »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #62
nine_k wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From my experience, none. "Utterly unfortunately, today was your last day with the company. A separation agreement has been sent to your personal email. Your corporate access is being revoked. Thank you for your contribution!" Being fired for poor performance is all about ample warnings, issuing a PIP, etc. The company wants the employee back on track. Being laid off is a situation that an employee cannot fix with th…

"Employees might sabotage stuff" is something parroted constantly and there's never any proof it is a significant issue.

It's not common, but it absolutely happens: https://www.courthousenews.com/man-behind-s-f-system-lockout...

Early in my career in the mid 2000s, the startup that was on the same floor as mine laid off a QA person, who then showed up the next day and fatally shot the CEO and head of HR. Our CEO called me and told me not to come in that day.

Re: Shutting Down Clear Linux OS

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Post by burnt-resistor »

fsckboy wrote: post #56
benoau wrote: post #19

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> wth is going on over at intel Thousands of layoffs. It's surprising someone even had time to post the notice.

no, the message poster keeps his job, so expect more messages

Round after round of layoffs is terrible for morale and drives away existing good talent. Layoffs should cut deep... once. Corporations these days are rehashing the unwise, bureaucratic stupidity of decades past.

Re: Shutting Down Clear Linux OS

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Post by happycube »

justinclift wrote: post #32
hardwaresofton wrote: post #2

Knowing which projects/languages/frameworks to invest time into and which to skip (even if they produce useful subprojects) is a superpower these days.

Some are easy to see to avoid (ie Google, https://killedbygoogle.com ), whereas others like this one are a bit more unexpected though make sense (to me) in hindsight.

Intel's graveyard, even before this year, is just about as big as Google's.

Re: Shutting Down Clear Linux OS

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Post by abnercoimbre »

JohnTHaller wrote: post #26

For background: This was Intel's distro and it's likely that most/all of the folks that were maintaining it are a part of the 5,000 layoffs just announced, bringing the total Intel layoffs to 20,000 people.

Today? Happy Friday I guess. Getting mass layoff fatigue.

Re: Shutting Down Clear Linux OS

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Post by AlotOfReading »

fsckboy wrote: post #57
curt15 wrote: post #10

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How much notice did ppl get when sacked?

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    but most company are capital constrained all the time.
Most employees are capital constrained at all times. The median American has $8000 in savings, and 30% have <$500.

Re: Shutting Down Clear Linux OS

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Post by DebtDeflation »

burnt-resistor wrote: post #82
fsckboy wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

no, the message poster keeps his job, so expect more messages

Round after round of layoffs is terrible for morale and drives away existing good talent. Layoffs should cut deep... once. Corporations these days are rehashing the unwise, bureaucratic stupidity of decades past.

Layoffs have just become a way to manage quarterly EPS.

Re: Shutting Down Clear Linux OS

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Post by jauntywundrkind »

Ooof. What a stellar project. Alas.

I wonder how much this will affect Kata Containers, which is AFAIK like the best/only good way to run containers in k8s with the security of VMs? https://katacontainers.io/

Man. There's so much amazing work Intel has done for the ecosystem. It's so hard so scary to imagine this world where no one else fills in so so much, so unclear who else does. Intel has done so so much for the ecosystem. It feels like open source has been an Immortal phalanx, always people to fill in: I hope so much I'm wrong but this shift in Intel feels like the death of the Immortal. What a pity that CHIPS act turned to dust, left such an amazing crucial industry hang out to dry.

Re: Shutting Down Clear Linux OS

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Post by dontlaugh »

nine_k wrote: post #47
curt15 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much notice did ppl get when sacked?

From my experience, none. "Utterly unfortunately, today was your last day with the company. A separation agreement has been sent to your personal email. Your corporate access is being revoked. Thank you for your contribution!" Being fired for poor performance is all about ample warnings, issuing a PIP, etc. The company wants the employee back on track. Being laid off is a situation that an employee cannot fix with th…

It’s also not legal in much of the world to do that, thankfully. There’s weeks/months to negotiate collectively with the company, possibly organise a strike with those not at risk of redundancy or even just to say goodbye to coworkers.
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