Thoughts on getting laid off after nine years at Twilio

Re:Thoughts on getting laid off after nine years at Twilio by malfist on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @04:59PM (#34796754)

I have a friend who spent 30 years working for a factory building aircraft for the military. One year, a new lead manager comes in and decides he wants everyone on the floor to have a college degree and fires my friend and the six other people there without college degrees.

It really messed up my friend, he was really close to a comfortable retirement, but had to borrow against his 401k to make it through until he could get another job. He was the safety officer for the entire factory, 15+ years of experience doing that. Now he's too close to retirement age and no one will hire him, even though he's personally a long way from retirement.

So now he's working a physically demanding job on the line making cars. All that experience and skills with safety? Junk.

No company has loyalty to their employees. It's all about the next quarter.

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Re:Thoughts on getting laid off after nine years at Twilio by mooreds on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @06:51PM (#34797970)

Wow, that is a heart-wrenching story. What a shame.

> It's all about the next quarter.

Not sure that follows from your friend's story. In that particular case, it seems to have been about bad management, unless having only college-degreed folks on the floor improved short term financials.

Definitely an example of a short sighted decision, though.

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Re:Thoughts on getting laid off after nine years at Twilio by flashgordon on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:13PM (#34799592)

I wouldn't be surprised if the manager who came in with this edict was specifically brought in to "weed" out those who could "escape" into a comfortable retirement just to extract more labor out of them!

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