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I hate going to the Apple Store nowadays.
Can I over boil my pasta water?
We need a Late Night Confessions bowl
Ugh. So much work. 😩
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Chief
Yeah they got pretty good severance packages. Combined with unemployment collection, they should be back on their feet in 3-4 months. I feel bad for the H1B visa workers tho
Pro
I do too
That was wrong of me not to think of them in that post
Visual Storyteller
OP big tech layoffs aren't about you, and they're not about obnoxious people you know who work in big tech, or big tech CEOs; they're about the families in financial crisis after their mommy and daddy lost their job, in an insane cost-of-living market like NYC or SF, and all of the companies they "could" lateral to have hiring freezes, and groceries/utilities are getting more expensive each month because of inflation and Ukraine. It's about the tough choices parents have to make — parents who, to a single person like yourself look like they're making a lot of money, but when you factor in the costs of raising an upper middle class family in a major city, are stretched pretty thin — to keep the electricity on, feed their kids, and pretend everything is ok over the holidays. Now use your accounting brain to multiply that image by 11% of Meta's staff, and thousands of families employed at other companies — and how your childhood would be derailed if *you* were the child of someone who just got laid off at Meta.
Enthusiast
Citi 1, you are clearly out of touch with most people’s real problems lmao
Enthusiast
Tone deaf.
Trust me you can get super easy jobs with good pay and low hours in any industry. You just have to have certain skills 😉
Visual Storyteller
Tax Manager, if it makes you feel better, even if they're out of work for 1 year, they'll make well more than you over the next 2.
OP They are probably at 400-500K on track for more lol. Even if they take all of 2023 off they’ll still beat you by the end of 2024
How would you feel if you lost your livelihood due to no fault of your own and people in other professions laughed about it?
Honestly I would’ve offered to quit so can get that fat severance
It’s a sad life
Chief
I’ll just leave this right here..
Pro
That’s my title so I thought it was implied
Look I know I’m being a d*** it’s the confession bowl and it’s honest thought I have
I’ve had some many tech bros and gals give me shade over this career choice just not many times I feel like oh wow I made a solid choice unless things go south with the economy
Jealous?