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Re:Why Layoffs Don't Work on Sunday March 09, 2025 @02:07PM (#43311911)
There go the goal posts, whooshing by at the speed of sound.
Re:Why Layoffs Don't Work on Sunday March 09, 2025 @02:04PM (#43311887)
So maybe we don't take jobs away from people with families and mortgages then, if all we have to do is sacrifice some profits, yeah? Gee, maybe the company can only make $9 billion instead of $9.5 billion, and everyone can stay employed.
Re:Why Layoffs Don't Work on Sunday March 09, 2025 @02:03PM (#43311867)
Got news for you, too: it's both. It's the useless management, it's the "developers" who send me screenshots of stack traces while they cry and soil themselves because they have no clue what they're doing.
Re:Why Layoffs Don't Work on Sunday March 09, 2025 @02:02PM (#43311860)
If you think the rich people haven't invented a way around those pesky "rules"...
Re:Why Layoffs Don't Work on Sunday March 09, 2025 @02:01PM (#43311842)
I mean, being homeless kinda sucks.
Re:Why Layoffs Don't Work on Sunday March 09, 2025 @02:00PM (#43311830)
Look, honey, another nerd who thinks the meritocracy is real! Get the camera!
Re:Why Layoffs Don't Work on Sunday March 09, 2025 @01:59PM (#43311812)
Mmm maybe they shouldn't have hired them in the first place then. Ever think of that, you miserable waste?
Re:Why Layoffs Don't Work on Sunday March 09, 2025 @01:58PM (#43311794)
"Why do tech workers get so wrapped around the axel of foreclosure when most people are in a chronic state of moving house?"