Ask HN: Who has been laid off? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by noir_lord » Thu, Apr 09, 2020, 4:58 PM UTC

dillonmckay wrote: post #213

noir_lord wrote: post #78

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> so unless you're actually losing money on furlough Also UK and I am losing money as it's 80% up to 2500 pre month if your employer doesn't top it up, so for me that's a large pay cut, that said given the way things are I'm happy to take that cut knowing I'll still have twice what I need to cover the next 3 months before I have to touch my savings. Whether I'll have a job at the end of whatever the lockdown period e…

Are you still having to work?

No, if your company furloughs you, you legally can't do work for them - the approach is if you work you get full pay.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by anonazon69420 » Thu, Apr 09, 2020, 8:04 PM UTC

mywittyname wrote: post #45

adriancooney wrote: post #33

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Interesting. It's a private document so it's hard to pull any stats out. I did manage to get the top ten companies (back of the napkin hack so take it with a pinch of salt): amazon | 13 thumbtack | 10 student | 8 wework | 8 wayfair | 6 google | 6 uber | 5 cisco | 4 oracle | 4 adobe | 3 Surprised to see Amazon at the top. I thought they were the best poised against this. Again, it may not be signal of a wider problem…

Amazon is almost certainly using this opportunity to "trim the fat." Not saying these people are bad developers, but Amazon seems to require a very specific personality type.

Can confirm

I was hired originally as a contractor but was converted to full-time as I had a competing offer, I was fired despite exemplary performance for a very "at will" reason. After getting some legal advice I may comment further but they're actively firing folks and not converting good contractors. If you're still at the company watch out.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by SamWhited » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 2:33 PM UTC

szatkus wrote: post #302

SamWhited wrote: post #23

20% paycut here. This comes after being laid off a few months ago when Docker sold their enterprise version (sort of, the new company made us all offers but they have terrible benefits among other problems so most people didn't take the offer or only stayed long enough to find something else), so we're all a bit sad. There was then an immediate around of layoffs right after that (though thankfully my department wasn'…

We had a call on Friday exactly for this. We were asked if we want a paycut or laid-offs.

A friend of mine mentioned that their company also took them to 80% pay but also gave them Fridays off. I wish we had a union just so they could negotiate for something like this.