Re:The Toll of Layoff Anxiety
by neilv on Saturday February 11, 2023 @08:29PM
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> hedge fund [...] nobody freaked out. [...] we knew severance was good and we knew we'd be highly desirable in the market.
> scale up that leaned woke [...] feel good mission [...] all out mental health crisis [...]
> FAANG [...] emotional vibe is somewhere between the two [...] Coworkers that came from tougher places (finance, Microsoft, Amazon) are holding it together fine. Others are not.
Rather than attributing this to some employees being made of more-anxious stuff, could this also be explained by:
* Concern about personal financial safety net (war chest, family money, connections, job market for them at that time)?
* Concern about being able to find another work situation that they like (including perceived woke feel-good mission, and like-minded colleagues, for those people)?
> scale up that leaned woke [...] feel good mission [...] all out mental health crisis [...]
> FAANG [...] emotional vibe is somewhere between the two [...] Coworkers that came from tougher places (finance, Microsoft, Amazon) are holding it together fine. Others are not.
Rather than attributing this to some employees being made of more-anxious stuff, could this also be explained by:
* Concern about personal financial safety net (war chest, family money, connections, job market for them at that time)?
* Concern about being able to find another work situation that they like (including perceived woke feel-good mission, and like-minded colleagues, for those people)?