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Hatebag posted:Phew, turns out my boss quit. Hatebag stays winning goongrats
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I was pretty nervous but now i can just blame any missed deadlines on the old boss and dick around. Pretty good deal!
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i work for a small biotech company and one of our biggest contracts just got cancelled because the customer axed the entire division that was working with us lol wonder how much time i’ve got left
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Woke Mind Virus posted:my tech company hasn't laid anyone off and has even been hiring the technical recruiters laid off from other tech companies. I am very pleased we are hiring people to layoff later when the next stock market report is due. My place isn't really a "tech company" per se (at least, not any more, after being acquired by a bigger company in a different industry), but we've been having regular layoffs and hiring freezes for years, and there's nobody left to cut. They're begrudgingly starting to hire this year since they're at pretty high risk of losing business because of being understaffed.
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KirbyKhan posted:I got wind and report from. Shift Lead. The [Regional Grocery Brand] is converting it's staff to do grocery shopping in house. So everybody from regional director on down for the ax. It looks like if you wanna keep shopping you can just switch apps. I found a regular-degular job so I'm just gonna shoplift until the proscribed date. Instacart and other shopping apps days were always numbered. Like the meal delivery services it was always a matter of time before the grocery stores realized they can just have staff (which can do other things during downtime) do the same thing, better, and no longer have instacarts fuckups reflect on them
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:Instacart and other shopping apps days were always numbered. Like the meal delivery services it was always a matter of time before the grocery stores realized they can just have staff (which can do other things during downtime) do the same thing, better, and no longer have instacarts fuckups reflect on them Yeah I knew that their days were numbered as soon as I saw Fred Meyer heavily advertising it’s curbside pickup service Those ads were pretty funny too because they just changed the branding on the regular Kroger ads and added stuff like “northwest fresh” to the ads but left all the imagery of people hiking in LA 
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Kreeblah posted:My place isn't really a "tech company" per se (at least, not any more, after being acquired by a bigger company in a different industry), but we've been having regular layoffs and hiring freezes for years, and there's nobody left to cut. They're begrudgingly starting to hire this year since they're at pretty high risk of losing business because of being understaffed. This is pretty much where I'm at with a telecom that's basically on impulse power after having gone through bankruptcy. Every quarter brings at least a few dozen layoffs in one department or another.
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MeatwadIsGod posted:This is pretty much where I'm at with a telecom that's basically on impulse power after having gone through bankruptcy. Every quarter brings at least a few dozen layoffs in one department or another. Yeah, that sounds about right for where I am. The super lovely part is that the company that bought us fired almost everybody who knew anything about how our poo poo worked, dumped our sales team (for a very complex B2B SaaS product that has a multi-year sales cycle) in favor of existing sales folks elsewhere, etc. Back when we were our own company, we were the market leader in what we did, and now, after a few years of mismanagement, we're struggling to even still be relevant.
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19 o'clock posted:poo poo you just described what I’m about to do at my job It turns out that threatening to quit then backing down only to come at them with an FMLA form worked for getting them to hire a temp at double the wage that they refused to pay multiple candidates.
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War and Pieces posted:It turns out that threatening to quit then backing down only to come at them with an FMLA form worked for getting them to hire a temp at double the wage that they refused to pay multiple candidates. ...so nothing changed? on my last day another employee got in a fight with the boss and walked out. word is offshoring work to India and the Philippines at this point. i hope it works out well for them.
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19 o'clock posted:...so nothing changed? We went from minus -2 employees to -1 and I got moved from swingshift back to pm shift. The boss is still filling in for the -1 by working midnights FMLA was for "Shift Work Disorder" lmao
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War and Pieces posted:FMLA was for "Shift Work Disorder" lmao drat i gotta remember this one
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War and Pieces posted:FMLA was for "Shift Work Disorder" lmao i guess authors can't edit post titles eh Layoffs - Cost-cutting - C-level pokerface - Shift Work Disorder real thing though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_work_sleep_disorder
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War and Pieces posted:FMLA was for "Shift Work Disorder" lmao lol
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one family member down in the spotify layoffs, gently caress me he’d gotten the job less than 6 months ago whoopsy. hope the baby that’s due in a couple months isn’t a huge additional exp ahahaha 
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Gunshow Poophole posted:one family member down in the spotify layoffs, gently caress me
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Xaris posted:if he's computer touching, everyone says it's super easy to find another computer touching job and they're in super high demand. so he should be fine. nope it’s not that even at all lmao
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Gunshow Poophole posted:nope it’s not that even at all lmao  then
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Xaris posted:if he's computer touching, everyone says it's super easy to find another computer touching job and they're in super high demand. so he should be fine. I been out of work since august although I didn’t really start applying until late October when I sorted my head out. I keep getting real close then rejected, and there are a lot of mass rejections these days due to hiring feeezes. Im not bad at computer. maybe xenophobia? idk it sucks. btw today is the day of Saint Xenia of St Petersburg quote:Saint Xenia is especially invoked for help in finding employment, lodging, or a spouse 🙏 🤲 📿🛐🧎
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Oglethorpe posted:wonder if this is retaliation for not sending leopard tanks It's because of American protectionism, the electric car stuff.
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mawarannahr posted:I been out of work since august although I didn’t really start applying until late October when I sorted my head out. I keep getting real close then rejected, and there are a lot of mass rejections these days due to hiring feeezes. Im not bad at computer. maybe xenophobia? idk it sucks. I’ve been helping out with resume reviews for my team and tbh most of the generic “good at computer stuff” applicants go in the trash. There are probably 100 per week and unless they are explicitly differentiated for the job skill set there is zero chance they get a follow up. If I were you I would either tailor your resume for a specific niche or wait 4-6 months.
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My industry (aerospace) had it's big layoff cycle in 2022 and things are pretty stable right now. There's some talk of trying to pick up some laid off tech workers, but I don't know if there's enough of a hiring demand to follow through on that quickly. Sorry to hear that layoffs are so widespread, I was only aware of the Google and Microsoft ones.
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mawarannahr posted:I been out of work since august although I didn’t really start applying until late October when I sorted my head out. I keep getting real close then rejected, and there are a lot of mass rejections these days due to hiring feeezes. Im not bad at computer. maybe xenophobia? idk it sucks. I still have a job, but I've been trying to get a job somewhere else for almost three years now with no luck. I'm going for director-level roles, though, since that's the next logical step for me (and I do have the experience for it). My situation's kind of unusual, though, since there aren't a lot of positions I'd be a good match for opening up. A friend of mine with a much more standard resume got laid off late last year and is still looking, though, and I know somebody else who's been doing software dev poo poo for decades who's been out of work for a month so far with no luck. Almost nobody's hiring right now.
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Xaris posted:if he's computer touching, everyone says it's super easy to find another computer touching job and they're in super high demand. so he should be fine. Better be a senior level full stack developer with 10 years experience and a bachelors in computer science that knows jquery, angular, typescript, react, vue, python, php, java, rest, graphql, mysql, postgres, swift, etc. RadiRoot has issued a correction as of 07:07 on Jan 25, 2023 |
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Found some exciting opportunities https://twitter.com/workwithusaid/status/1618677895727308801 https://twitter.com/usaidoti/status/1618640054418657282
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mawarannahr posted:I been out of work since august although I didn’t really start applying until late October when I sorted my head out. I keep getting real close then rejected, and there are a lot of mass rejections these days due to hiring feeezes. Im not bad at computer. maybe xenophobia? idk it sucks. good luck goon I'm current computer touching at a small (~80 FTE) nonprofit, and we're still hiring like gangbusters for frontline staff* and we've been around for a very long time. I loving hate the people I work with but the job is super easy, pays well, and has good benefits. I'm going to sniff around for nonprofit tech jobs because working with these people is going to drive me batty * decent pay in the low-mid 20s, but the work is emotionally draining and pretty intense. basically connecting people to benefits and helping them get SNAP and medicaid
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tokin opposition posted:I'm going to sniff around for nonprofit tech jobs because working with these people is going to drive me batty you should look for town/county/regional computer touching jobs. they get overlooked for all the big figgy FAAANG vc unicorn startup bonaza, but they're super chill and pay well. look for like school system, mayor's office, public works, water agency, sewer, local department of transportation, county public works/office of emergency services/fire department/etc kinda thing. usually also are unionized i work for a public agency and it whips rear end. union + big pension + strict hard cap 40-hour work weeks + 3 day weekends every other week
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Shear Modulus posted:I've never heard nonprofits be described as anything but absolutely terrible to work for literal same except from communications majors who work in lucrative PR jobs who got their start at nonprofits
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We spend 12k a year on Real Rent. We got a 5% cost of living increase this month.
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You just need to put in your 12 years in Nonprofits then all your student debt is forgiven and you'll have outlasted all your rivals who don't have generational wealth. Then the directorship and the 75K salary that comes with it is yours for the taking.
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the Econ thread became enjoyable now that there isn’t weekly talks of 60k+ SUVs and constant updates on housing markets in america here’s hoping there’s way more tech layoffs!
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skipmyseashells posted:the Econ thread became enjoyable now that there isn’t weekly talks of 60k+ SUVs and constant updates on housing markets in america Mayor Dave posted:
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Oglethorpe posted:Gemini crypto - 10% It's wild how those extremely fraud-prone cryptocurrencies are frequently subject to the exact same kind of fraud, I can't believe the bad actors would do this.
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skipmyseashells posted:the Econ thread became enjoyable now that there isn’t weekly talks of 60k+ SUVs and constant updates on housing markets in america it's been very satisfying to see the day in the life of techbro tiktok economy get decimated
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