Re:Talking about layoffs
by citizenkeen on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @12:23AM
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If you value the opportunity to be a "company man", you can still do that, even as a software engineer. It just requires a shift in priorities. Those jobs absolutely exist.
Re:Talking about layoffs
by frognumber on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @12:41AM
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They're good places to be. You get paid less, but we're social creatures. Stability and relationships matter more than $$$.
Banks for example?
Re:Talking about layoffs
by PedroBatista on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @05:40AM
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That ship has mostly sailed. You can be if you already are, but becoming one now is very difficult and an exercise of wasting your only one life.
Insurance seems to be a good place for jobs like this.
Re:Talking about layoffs
by tomnipotent on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @05:28PM
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> Employment for a lifetime is a thing of another historical moment
Not sure such moment has ever existed. If employment was lifetime, it was either slavery or exploitation of a workforce that lacked mobility. There was maybe a generation of baby boomers that got lucky with a generation of companies that grew up with them and is still paying for their pensions, but otherwise history is not kind to workers.
Also, this is terrible, I know, I don't like it either but it's the current instituional arrangement where we live. Still, being layoff is a burden because it shock your core values and make you doubt of your true self and worth. Some people can't get pass it.