I’m sick of being laidoff. Got laid off again today, second time in 4 years in a big corporate layoff. Seems I can’t ever find any respite these days. No matter how hard I work or how much I put in, just bound to be laid off and even though I’ve been recognized officially through merit repeatedly, these companies here in the USA just keep laying people off And then passing all the jobs on to India for 3K a year salary…
So disheartening. At this rate I might as well just retire from White collar work and go and learn a trade as a tradesman, completely redo my entire life goals
You wouldn’t be the first, i’ve seen it happen. And you’d most likely be happier.
My layoffs have been interesting.
1st was after working my 1st year a as a junior dev. The tech lead thought i didn’t have what it takes.
2nd was 'cos a higher up didn’t like my sarcastic remarks.
3rd was 'cos my boss got offended i refused to work on weekends.
early in the pandemic, someone i knew was a civil engineer in NY(i assume NYC) he got laid off and went to work at a"inb etween job" at a retail job, im betting managment laid off all the important people first before themselves. and another a IT employee working in the same place, (they left early in the pandemic from the inbetween because azm was purposely putitng out limited jobs so very little go stay. i suspect alot of these "skilled " labor will be truncated to outsourced employees, or a desperate employee(usually the targets are people with more skills) willing to take a lower salary