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How much notice did ppl get when sacked?
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I rarely resort to this sort of comment online, but I feel it is warranted in this case: fuck you.
Shutting Down Clear Linux OS
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#92My prediction is a handful of laid off employees will fork the repo and resurrect within a month with new branding.
Similar happened when Mandriva went under and Mageia started about 15ish years ago.
Mageia is my favorite of the Mandrake descendants.
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I mean, Clear Linux was the leader in the vast majority of Linux benchmarks, to my knowledge. So much so that even AMD used it in their advertised benchmarks for CPU releases because of the performance advantage. I think it was quite successful, and I doubt they are shuttering it because they don't see the value in it, but because of overall lackluster company performance and the new CEO cutting costs/the workforce a…
It being a Linux distro, I wonder how soon a viable fork will appear.
The problem is that Clear Linux did a lot of tweaking in their packaging to get good performance, up to and including actual code patching IIRC, so it would be a nontrivial ongoing effort to continue that work.
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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.
if your goal is healthy companies that can hire employees and give the employees what employees want (jobs, if you got lost) then don't saddle companies with extra expenses that are not productive. giving employees a bonus for non productive activity on top of the company's failure is just stupid.
if immigrants with menial jobs can save money and even send money back home to their families, so can higher status employees.
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#96I maintain a custom kernel built on top of their patches optimized for performance that I now don't know what to do with.
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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.
Yep. Wage suppression and insta stock bump. Publicly- and private equity-owned corporations are inherently unstable beasts. Knowledge workers and ordinary workers need to band together and start their own co-ops that stay private, partially collectively-owned, have retirement plans, high performance people, pride in their goods and services, high job satisfaction, and very low turnover because everyone is trying to join them.
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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.
Interesting, I didn't know that.
Is there a list, like there is for Google?
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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.
This works if you have a trade union. I'd hazard to say that at least 99% of software engineers in the US work on "at-will" employment agreements, and do not belong to any unions.
A separation agreement usually stipulates paying 2-3 months worth of salary, and extending the benefits similarly. I don't see how it is worse than spending a couple of extra weeks in the office, and receiving the same.
(Also note that employees that are harder to lay off also get hired with much more reluctance.)
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#100Thnks fr th Mmrs.