Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19

Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by wrkronmiller on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @06:21PM (#24414254)

This is a bad take.

COVID is an exceptional and temporary situation.

Everyone has highs and lows (great successes, terrible personal problems/tragedies/etc...) throughout their careers. The only difference between this circumstance and any other is that it's impacting many people at once.

If, for example, you got COVID and were put on a ventilator for a month, how would you react to finding out that you had lost your job? Would you want to take it on the chin and down-size, or would you be upset that your employer didn't show the basic decency to (at a bare minimum) re-hire you once you were recovered?

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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by avh02 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @08:06AM (#24420096)

I'm just sad you think there's decency in being rehired in a situation like that, you shouldn't even be fired to start with!

Times like this I'm glad I didn't pick the US as a place to live.

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