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Re:LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineer... by AndrewKemendo on Monday October 16, 2023 @12:41PM (#37902494)
Just look at the amount of sincerely antisocial comments that boil down to effectively what I wrote above

It’s disappointing but not surprising

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Re:LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineer... by scruple on Monday October 16, 2023 @01:18PM (#37903063)
Yes, unsurprisingly I've had these exact sorts of conversations at work (gamesdev).

Some of these people truly, truly believe that they are so gifted and so talented that the work opportunities will simply never dry up.

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Re:LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineer... by smsm42 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @03:51AM (#37911824)
If work opportunities dry up, how the union would help? Unions don't create work opportunities, they only can redistribute who gets the ones that are still there - e.g. by excluding nonmembers or by mandating that less senior members will be fired first, etc. Given that, why "these people" would be sure they aren't ones who'd get the short straw?
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