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Re:Google Fires Employee of over 16 Years with Automated Email by jossclimb on Friday February 03, 2023 @02:39AM (#34638266)
The interesting aspect is the tech folks being laid off right now with automated email, could just as easily have developed the automated tools that automated the email. You have to wonder how many really spent much time outraged to the misfortune of those automated out of jobs by the software they develop.

I am not saying we should not write software, but don't go crying when the realities of capitalism come for your cushy privileged tech job too.

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Re:Google Fires Employee of over 16 Years with Automated Email by strawhatguy on Friday February 03, 2023 @03:19PM (#34647165)
Tech is interesting in that it’s one profession that’s trying to automate itself out of a job.

I think automated emails for layoffs are par for the course; we don’t complain about tools like AWS that have automated whole swaths of stuff we used to have to do and manage ourselves…

Automated firing is just inevitable

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