How many people do you personally know who were laid off in the past year (or two)?
0 (zero)38.5%
1 (one)17.9%
< 5 (less than five)25.6%
> 5 (more than five)17.9%
78 votes \ poll ended
290 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 14 Jan
The scale of the answers might be misleading. Some of us are pretty anti-social, so knowing one person who got laid off is not trivial.
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384 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 14 Jan
I only know 6 people. They're all either retired or imprisoned
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78 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 14 Jan
And one of them is you?
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27 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 15 Jan
Parole board is next month. Fingers crossed.
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306 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 14 Jan
Some people have jobs in prison.
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27 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 14 Jan
Yes, but not these two.
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31 sats \ 2 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 14 Jan
What if I know 5 exactly?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @erict875 OP 14 Jan
Aha!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @beorange 14 Jan
Asking the real questions!
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53 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheBTCManual 14 Jan
Personally 2, but wider my Linkedin feed is filled with people looking for new jobs, especially marketers and recruiters in the tech sector/saas businesses, its absolute carnage
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @erict875 OP 15 Jan
Yeah, recruiters are being mercilessly sacked left and right. A real carnage.
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43 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 14 Jan freebie
and this is not over... :(
as google are going to dispite this year again
other companies will do
Last year, in my company, our boss said as google despited we will do the same... :(
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @OriginalSize 15 Jan
Saw a girl get fired via email the other day but I don't know her except through viral video.
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33 sats \ 2 replies \ @elvismercury 15 Jan
My sense is that a bunch of this is big companies realizing, little by little, that LLMs really do amplify people to the extent that you can do more with less. Combined with the fact that a lot of those companies carry a lot of chaff. If I'm right, momentum will build steadily.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 15 Jan
also makes their stock go up :/
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 15 Jan
It's a chilling state of affairs when machines can do people's jobs better than real people.
Unfortunately, based on my interactions with this generation of youngsters, I'm not surprised at all
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @03479d0ee6 14 Jan
Not laid off, but some are being "pushed" to leave. No raises with inflation still high and interest rates high. Even in tech that it was very easy to find a better pay is not like that anymore. Everything is cutting and contracting.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @riberet19 15 Jan
Only one person I know has been fired so far, so I don't know if there is a bloodbath in the job market, I dont think so really.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cleaningup12 14 Jan
Personally I know 2 people that got made redundant
Both are struggling to find similar employment
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @hodlpleb 14 Jan
We’ll I know many from my company, so did not count those. Of friends, it’s been 1 or 2 that I know of.
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