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Re:Disney Lays Off Ike Perlmutter, Chairman of Marvel Entert... by hn_throwaway_99 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @04:21PM (#35362896)
The thing that's "safer" about getting laid off when there are huge rounds throughout many different companies is that it is actually even more accurate to say that it had 0 to do with job performance.

True, obviously companies use layoffs to get rid of low performers, but there are just numerous cases where companies are canning entire divisions, e.g. the Alexa-device-focused teams at Amazon or the metaverse team at Disney.

I highly doubt these most recent layoffs will be treated as much of a black mark.

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Re:Disney Lays Off Ike Perlmutter, Chairman of Marvel Entert... by snozolli on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @05:32PM (#35364027)
Following the Great Recession, there were job postings that literally said not to apply unless you already had a job. You wildly underestimate the degree to which HR will mindlessly inflict their uniformed bias on the rest of us.
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Re:Disney Lays Off Ike Perlmutter, Chairman of Marvel Entert... by JohnFen on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @06:54PM (#35365030)
Even if they don't make it an actual requirement, it's almost always easier to get a job while you have a job.
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