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Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers by dajtxx on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:24PM (#35662392)
I think so too. Elon laid waste to Twitter devs & SRE and that has allowed other companies to feel it's ok now.

But that's not the whole thing - it sounds like there was massive over-hiring of devs and some madness of trying to stop other companies getting them.

What a wasteland. The thing is there is a whole raft of interesting jobs out there that don't involve actively making society worse, so hopefully some devs will move out of this scene and onto something more constructive.

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Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers by late2part on Saturday April 22, 2023 @12:42AM (#35663393)
Two thoughts:

1. Twitter works. The cuts are reasonable.

2. I worked with a number of people from (pre-Musk) Twitter. The self entitlement culture the majority of these pre-Musk Twitter people espoused was toxic.

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Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers by btreecat on Saturday April 22, 2023 @12:59AM (#35663466)
Define "works?"
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Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers by suddenclarity on Saturday April 22, 2023 @03:11AM (#35664116)
Site is up and it seems they've launched more features in the last year than the previous 15 years combined.
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Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers by boringuser2 on Saturday April 22, 2023 @02:01PM (#35669276)
Ridiculous. It clearly functions as well as ever.
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Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers by btreecat on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @07:49AM (#35699168)
Right... And the reports documenting increased down time, broken features and spam on the "for you" page are all a false flag operation by the liberal woke mafia to dunk on daddy Elon.
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Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers by white_dragon88 on Saturday April 22, 2023 @11:19PM (#35673020)
You define it cause you seem to be quite confused about what that word should mean.
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Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers by btreecat on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @07:40AM (#35699079)
That's not how making a claim in good faith works buddy.
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Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers by boringuser2 on Saturday April 22, 2023 @02:00PM (#35669270)
Clearly so, but doesn't it kind of blow open some serious questions -- these companies have been over-hiring and importing direct competition from the third world to our labor, and now they say "lol jk, we didn't need that labor"?

Hmm....

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