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Layoff season (lemy.lol)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I didn't realize it at the time but I was part of this horrible trend. I was doing support for a large software company that's big in system administration circles.

I was laid off just prior to the end of the year. December 15, if I recall correctly (somewhere around there regardless). Shortly after me, will into layoff season, my entire support center was decommissioned and all of my co-workers joined me in unemployment. Within a few months the center went from hundreds of employees to zero.

They took the companies name off the building a year later. This was a bit less than 10 years ago and I'm still bitter; especially since the CEO visited the center about a month before he laid off the entire center, directly in the wake of laying off the front line customer support team in my center and outsourcing their jobs to low cost geographies; he had the gall to lecture is about how the layoff of the CS team didn't and shouldn't imply anything about the support team. Blah blah blah, different business unit, different operating criteria, yadda yadda yadda.... All bullshit to try to get us to work harder right up until the bitter end.

They gave everyone two months pay as severance with no consideration to how long you had worked there. Many people were shown the door after the better part of a decade, with no additional consideration than what people who were there less than a year recieved. I still don't like that CEO, and he's doing rounds in the tech circles with people singing his praises. Makes me sick.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don't understand why we can't name and shame these days. They shamed you. They have tarnished your rep by making you redundant. They showed no professional courtesy. Fuck them. Name and shame.

These cunts continue to do the rounds because no one ever outright calls these cunts out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I don’t understand why we can’t name and shame these days

Power. Respect for authorities.

You need to be hired somewhere else. The new company you apply at don't know what actually happened, it's all hearsay and bad employees may make shit up to get more pity or make them look less bad if they were fired for legit reasons. In the confusion they'll want to defend their interest, and some may just be bad people to begin with.

And then there might be repercussions because they have more means than you do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

This is the unfortunate truth, I think you can debate how likely you are to encounter this kind of backlash for an anonymous comment on a random Lemmy post, but if you did it more publicly on like LinkedIn or something then definitely.

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