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Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by g_langenderfer »

seniordevconfuz wrote: post #104
fred_is_fred wrote: post #92

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I'm not sure if you are in the US, but if you are apply for unemployment and apply now. The sooner you do it the longer your savings will last. And having gone through this before, you need to cut spending to the bone. Beyond not going out to eat since that is handled, but see if you can reduce your car insurance, drop online recurring services, etc.

That's a great advice. Yes I am in the US.I will start that application right now. I panic paid off my car insurance just in case things get worse. I'll shop for a cheaper phone plan. Gym memberships, online streaming and frivolous stuff will go. Capitalism for the win.

Capitalism didn't give people an appetite for bat.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #189
ithrow wrote: post #37

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Just curious, how does a bartender ends up staying reading HN?

I always found it interesting how many people have taught themselves programming. I was at a customer site a few months ago installing some test hardware and the guy I was working with was their welder, having been an auto mechanic before and we got into a discussion about programming in Python! The best interaction, however, would be the homeless guy I met who used to be a programmer.

My plumber has written a ton of VBA in Excel to automate his business.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

dguaraglia wrote: post #208
ryandrake wrote: post #186

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I've been in this situation. First it was 1/2 paychecks. Then, a few months into the recession it was 1/4 paychecks. Finally, it was 1/4 paychecks and no health insurance. That was when I buggered out. It might have been more humane to just lay off people.

As someone running a company that is trying to keep people employed by cutting salaries: we don't want our employees to be scared about not having healthcare the moment they might need it the most. We talked it with everyone, we are all taking a pay cut (us, founders, were the ones making the least already so I think our employees understand) and we are doing everything possible to extend our runway until at least ne…

us, founders, were the ones making the least already

I don't think people realise how common this is.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by klunger »

lb1lf wrote: post #156
klunger wrote: post #147

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Since you are Norwegian, and presumably working for a Norwegian company, I am curious how such a layoff was possible. Was it an actual layoff or are you permittert?

-Oh, it was a proper layoff, all right. Assuming you are in Norway, too - got summons to a 15.1 out of the blue, couple of days later I was told that my services were not required going forward, signed an agreement giving me several months of severance pay + no obligation to work during the termination period against waiving my right to sue. Considering the petroleum service industry had been struggling for years, I…

Yes, I live in Oslo.

Ouch, that is really rough. I hope your severance was enough to carry you through until you can find something new. My partner is in petro-adjacent company* and they have a full hiring freeze. We are wondering when the layoffs are coming. Good luck.

*technically, they have an industry agnostic service, but something like 90% of their customers are oil companies, so...

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by baidoct »

seniordevconfuz wrote: post #104
fred_is_fred wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure if you are in the US, but if you are apply for unemployment and apply now. The sooner you do it the longer your savings will last. And having gone through this before, you need to cut spending to the bone. Beyond not going out to eat since that is handled, but see if you can reduce your car insurance, drop online recurring services, etc.

That's a great advice. Yes I am in the US.I will start that application right now. I panic paid off my car insurance just in case things get worse. I'll shop for a cheaper phone plan. Gym memberships, online streaming and frivolous stuff will go. Capitalism for the win.

You can cancel your online streaming, I got free slot on my accounts :) I'd be happy to share with you.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by exdsq »

gigatexal wrote: post #253
exdsq wrote: post #216

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I work for a company currently hiring a data engineer (100% remote): https://iohk.io/en/careers/fk0qqod/data-engineer/#main-conte...

Applying now. Thank you!!!

No worries - good luck with the application :)

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by lb1lf »

klunger wrote: post #274
lb1lf wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

-Oh, it was a proper layoff, all right. Assuming you are in Norway, too - got summons to a 15.1 out of the blue, couple of days later I was told that my services were not required going forward, signed an agreement giving me several months of severance pay + no obligation to work during the termination period against waiving my right to sue. Considering the petroleum service industry had been struggling for years, I…

Yes, I live in Oslo. Ouch, that is really rough. I hope your severance was enough to carry you through until you can find something new. My partner is in petro-adjacent company* and they have a full hiring freeze. We are wondering when the layoffs are coming. Good luck. *technically, they have an industry agnostic service, but something like 90% of their customers are oil companies, so...

-Thank you; unless this corona thing paralyse anything and everything for the rest of the year or more, I expect to land on my feet (and, should the current state of affairs continue for that long, I suspect the lack of a paycheck is not going to be the biggest of my worries!)

I hope we'll see a partial return to normal-ish after Easter - at least to the extent that the companies I've been in touch with start planning for the months and years ahead, rather than just trying to figure out how to survive until something resembling normalcy returns.

What I see locally (in the Sunnmøre maritime cluster) is that a lot of smaller companies have pivoted from being suppliers to the oil industry exclusively to catering to offshore wind, fisheries, aquaculture &c - whereas the larger corporations say they are doing the same, only spending years burning through cash trying to develop a strategy for the new reality.

With any luck, your partner's company will get business from this - for lack of a better phrase - 'greener' economy as it matures. Exciting times with lots of opportunities for entrepreneurs around here, at least - with lots (by rural Norwegian standards...) of skilled people, machinery and capital available for cheap.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by Souzana »

seniordevconfuz wrote: post #77

I woke up today with a nice surprise from HR. I got laid off. It was the most impersonal and robotic email I received. 20 minutes later all my accounts got disabled, not a chance to even say farewell to my nice co-workers. It sucks. I don't have a ton of savings. Luckily my car is paid off, and I only have student loans left. I was very tempted to inflate my lifestyle after I got a big raise. I didn't do it, otherwis…

Goes to show, companies don't give a damn, and people will start realizing this pretty fast. "Company family" my ass dude

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by razki »

zero_shift wrote: post #5

Just been put on furlough with likely redundancy at the end of the national lockdown period. Absolutely devastated. My job was hard and the pace relentless but the work was extremely stimulating and my colleagues were absolutely fantastic people. (It was also a Haskell gig, which is a real rarity.) Right now I'm just licking my wounds and waiting for the lockdown to end. I'm not sure if it makes sense to start a new…

Feel the pain. Same situation here, I'll be taking a 50% wage cut, coupled with the uncertainty after the government period if it goes that way on Monday.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by alex7o »

jedberg wrote: post #117
seniordevconfuz wrote: post #104

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That's a great advice. Yes I am in the US.I will start that application right now. I panic paid off my car insurance just in case things get worse. I'll shop for a cheaper phone plan. Gym memberships, online streaming and frivolous stuff will go. Capitalism for the win.

Before you cut everything , keep in mind that you're still a human being and have psychological needs. If that streaming service brings you hours of joy, it might be cheaper to keep it than the bills for your mental health treatment down the line. Don't just cut everything out of your life cold turkey. Keep something that brings you joy.

The pirate bay is your friend.
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