• bruhbeans@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I got canned from my last job and thr way I found out was my work Gmail was locked out, fuckin class acts them.

    Getting fired from my current gig would be a relief tbh.

  • ch00f@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    At my last job, time they added or removed someone’s key card access, the system would reboot and everyone would be locked out for like two minutes.

    We also had two floors that were connected by a fire stairwell, so you needed a card to re-enter the next floor.

    At least twice my card stopped working in the middle of the word day while I was standing in the stairwell and I assumed that they just fired me and assumed I’d see my own way out.

    Survived three layoffs at that company.

    • SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Way too stressful. I worked at a company that was bought by a hedge fund and they were always downsizing, even if it was key employees. It made me under perform and caused insomnia that I never quite got over and it was 11 years ago.

  • SGG@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Upside: not fired.

    Downside: have to do work.

    Upside: make money

    Downside: not enough money

  • essteeyou@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I haven’t been laid off since April. I haven’t had a job since then though, so that’s not exactly ideal.

  • Hyphlosion@donphan.social
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    7 months ago

    While WFH is amazing, your colleagues just going poof and never knowing what happened to them is a big downside.

    • brlemworld@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      The randomly fired 2 people on my team one morning. I think we’re doing the evil shit Amazon does with stack ranking. It’s so toxic. Fuck this place, you only get the bare minimum now. Anyone know of any software engineering unions?

      • OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        I think someone mentioned CWA (Communication Workers of America) in another thread? Assuming you’re American which on Lemmy is statistically likely.

  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    You just captured the daily life of a UK academic after the catastrophically low recruitment numbers this year.

  • AbsentBird@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Anyone else see the back of the chair as the person’s hair in the first two panels?

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    My dad has been a server engineer for a single company for my entire life and he lived like this up until quite recently. His fear oscillates in magnitude with the success of the industry the company is a part of course so it isn’t always severe but I remember every few years as a kid I’d hear him and my mother murmering about lay offs. These days he just jokes about it being an early retirement

  • KrankyKong@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I know the feeling. A few months ago I randomly got a video call from my boss. Both he and the owner of the company were in the line. They let me know that they unfortunately had to let go of almost everyone on the dev team. Some funding had fell through (gotta love startups). Fortunately, I got to keep my job that day, but I can’t shake the feeling that another layoff is right around the corner.

  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I work in IT. We get notified when people leave.

    The cruelest thing in my company is when we get to know before the person in question…

    • EnderMB@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Out of interest, what do you do and where are you based? It’s a shitty place to work, but if you’re near an Amazon office and you do Amazony things I’m happy to send a reference your way.

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Just hit 5 months with 3 works. It’s been tough.

      Edit: not trying to mock your suffering comrade. The point was that no matter what happens while we live a capitalist way of life, the working class will suffer.