Re:Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S.
by Devthrowaway80 on Friday March 04, 2016 @12:09AM
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> It's really, really easy to think you're one of God's Chosen (or Allahs, or Jehovas, or Buddha's, or ...) when you're at the top of the world, you've got a multi-trillion-dollar wind in your sails, you went to the best schools, and you make titanium and airaluminium dance on the wind and all that.
Fortunately nobody posting on Hacker News threads like these are relatively new engineers who think they're God's gift!
Re:Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S.
by dredmorbius on Friday March 04, 2016 @02:31AM
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We should count our blessings!
It's really, really easy to think you're one of God's Chosen (or Allahs, or Jehovas, or Buddha's, or ...) when you're at the top of the world, you've got a multi-trillion-dollar wind in your sails, you went to the best schools, and you make titanium and airaluminium dance on the wind and all that.
1980s aerospace engineers weren't the first to take that tumble. They won't be the last.