Twilio Flex outage now 6 hours after laying off 28% staff

Re:Twilio Flex outage now 6 hours after laying off 28% staff by sharkweek on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:19PM (#34839974)

Not getting laid off, being handed someone else’s job on top of yours, and being told “just be glad you’re still here!” is terrible.

Sometimes getting laid off from a company that’s floundering (with personal finances in order enough to be able to handle it) can be a blessing.

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Re:Twilio Flex outage now 6 hours after laying off 28% staff by kabdib on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:23PM (#34840024)

I've been in a couple of companies that went under, and had held serial layoffs. (For example, when I started at Atari in 1982 there were perhaps 4,000 employees, and when I resigned about five years later there were less than 200).

Towards the end you start to wonder who the lucky ones really are. Not kidding.

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Re:Twilio Flex outage now 6 hours after laying off 28% staff by Volundr on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:26PM (#34840070)

I worked for a company for 3 years after half my team was laid off. In hindsight I clearly should've quit, but yeah the folks laid off and collecting that severance were definitely the lucky ones.

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Re:Twilio Flex outage now 6 hours after laying off 28% staff by jonny_eh on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:29PM (#34840095)

And those laid off last, get the least severance (if any).

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