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Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by barbegal »

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…

I see no reason why you can't start a new job, you can have another job and receive the furlough pay as far as I can tell [1]. This may be in breach of your first employees contract but as long as its a job in a slightly different industry few contracts would prevent you starting a new job.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-for-wage-costs-through-the...

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by fred_is_fred »

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…

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.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by H8crilA »

fredley wrote: post #38

[UK] Not me but my partner—classical music. Almost everyone is freelance, and everyone has had all their gigs cancelled for the next few months, leaving a lot of people for whom strings were tight to begin with in complete limbo. Performers obviously but also all the events, management, publicity, everything. The scale of it is almost incomprehensible, unless massive investment is made in the sector to keep it alive,…

Or severely deflate. The instruments and people and equipment will still be there, just much much cheaper to get. Companies will be owned by defaulted bonds rather than stocks.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by ghaff »

pmiller2 wrote: post #85
novask wrote: post #14

I left voluntarily before I had something else lined up. We weren't really doing anything we were hired to do (pentesting), so I wanted something else. I got really restless and it's why I'll stay away from government contracting positions in the future unless desperately needed. 4 months ago this wasn't a completely bad idea as tech was known as a seller's market and taking time off to learn new things was normal. I…

My company isn't doing layoffs (yet), but the next year or so is precisely what I'm worried about. I've been at my company for about 1.5 years, and, absent coronavirus, I'm very confident I'd be in no danger of losing my job. Right now, taking the risk of jumping to a new company doesn't sound appealing. But, if this goes on too long, I'm sure we'll end up doing layoffs at some point. We're already on a hiring freeze…

>a job search in the middle of a recession does not sound like any fun

During the dot-com bust, I was very lucky. I had lunch with someone I knew just a few days after I was laid off for dot-com bust related reasons. And he ended up hiring me about a month later.

However, during the interim I was job hunting, including meeting with various other executives I knew and I don't think I had so much as a nibble. And, of course, at least at the moment, there aren't a lot of service sector jobs you can take just to keep some money rolling in.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by lizardking »

I had a one year contract terminated a month early today, with one week notice. Upon getting the news, I immediately starting searching and was lucky to find another contract. Finding work will become harder as the number of laid off workers increases.

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by elros »

conradfr wrote: post #76

Fired officially next week but to be honest it was ongoing before the lockdown;) On the bright side it seems the tech job market is not too much affected here in Paris but we'll see how it goes. Well at least I can now finish some freelance gig that was taking my free time, and it gives me more time to continue learning elixir, I even finally took the time to open-source and deploy a demo of a LiveView game I made in…

> tech job market is not too much affected here in Paris

What are good websites to find positions for work in Paris? No problem if the website is in French, bien entendu :-)

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by H8crilA »

conradfr wrote: post #76

Fired officially next week but to be honest it was ongoing before the lockdown;) On the bright side it seems the tech job market is not too much affected here in Paris but we'll see how it goes. Well at least I can now finish some freelance gig that was taking my free time, and it gives me more time to continue learning elixir, I even finally took the time to open-source and deploy a demo of a LiveView game I made in…

You sure? I'd be surprised if even 10% of tech companies were hiring right now, regardless of location ...

Re: Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

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Post by H8crilA »

redorb wrote: post #58

I asked the owner for a 20% cut. We had some tough negotiations on my salary 2 years ago and I wanted to express my willingness to share the 'pain'. So far she hasn't taken me up on it. *I don't know how to take the fact she hasn't taken me up on it :/ but I do adore the company ~ 13 years in service.

May be quite a smart move. The "kill list" order should (rationally) be heavily influenced by the total compensation.
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