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Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by SoftTalker on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:31PM (#34255987)
> People are tired of job hopping to get market pay, dealing with bulls*t, and being thrown under the bus at the slightest hint of an economic downturn.

So it's cool for employees to quit and job hop to get better pay, leaving their former employers with the effort and expense of replacing them, but not cool for companies to lay off employees to save money when markets contract?

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Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by alexandre_m on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:39PM (#34256041)
The main motivation for job hopping is that it's usually easier to get a raise or promotion than staying around for too long at your company.

A lot of employers have the unfortunate tendency to see their most loyal employees as furniture.

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Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by gls2ro on Thursday January 05, 2023 @02:03AM (#34256923)
yes, it is cool for employees to do so because of balance of power.

Companies have more power than employees when thinking about the size of the event:

they can fire you unexpectedly (with/without severance) so for your life (and probably your family) this is the main event happening.

But if you leave for a company that is usually a minor event that will probably not have any effect (or very limited) on their "life" (income/profit/culture ...)

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