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Ask HN: Who has been laid off ?, Hacker News

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                   Just been put on furlough with likely redundancy at the end of the national lockdown period. Absolutely devastated. My job was hard and the pace relentless but the work was extremely stimulating and my colleagues were absolutely fantastic people.
(It was also a Haskell gig, which is a real rarity.) (right now I’m just licking my wounds and waiting for the lockdown to end. I’m not sure if it makes sense to start a new job right now – the UK furlough scheme is essentially guaranteed income until June. Starting a new job would waive that, so unless you’re actually losing money on furlough I think it’s a bit unwise to jump companies.

            

                   I’m sorry to hear that dude.

Haskell is a demanding language, so you’re almost certainly a pretty senior dev. If so, consider volunteering to help organizations during the downtime. Worst case, if you can’t get that dream gig back it will certainly make your resume stand out when you’re looking for your next thing. Best of luck.             

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                   % paycut here. This comes after being laid off a few months ago when Docker sold their enterprise version (sort of, the new company made us all offers but they have terrible benefits among other problems so most people did take the offer or only stayed long enough to find something else), so we’re all a bit sad. There was then an immediate around of layoffs right after that (though thankfully my department was not affected).
At least we still have a job, and I ‘ ll take the pay cut if it means we don’t have to make anyone else redundant, but I wish the employees had a seat at the negotiating table for any of this.

            

                          

                   I’m a bartender. At least % of my Friends have been laid off. Not just bartenders, but servers, bussers, most cooks, managers, and everyone I know who works in hotels as well.
            
                   I work for a very large player in the print industry (which is transitioning to ‘multichannel marketing solutions provider’).
I feel like my company has done the best they can (given our industry has already been under a lot of pressure prior to COVID) under circumstances. We’re in groups of rolling furloughs so folks have not been permanently laid off. While laid off, we still are receiving medical benefits, which is great.

As a remote worker prior to all this, I haven’t had to change much of my day to day and our infrastructure has handled the influx of remote workers (thousands) very well.

However, it also makes the prospect of moving to another company daunting. I worked on-prem for years and developed relationships with co-workers prior to moving off-site. I have a lot of anxiety about not being able to create the same relationships at a new company or having to commute again to a city center for work (something I really can’t see myself doing unless absolutely necessary). It’s a scary prospect and one I think is absolutely possible given the precarious state of my industry and the economy on the whole.

                         

            

                   OT, but I’ve been getting a lot (more) feelers for (remote) jobs over the last two weeks. I’m not switching, but I hope that that translates into more work for those who need it.

                                      
                   % here, plus taken on 2-3x workload (not related to the furlough situation) .

Edit … btw, 2-3x workload does not mean that i can actually complete 2-3x workload.

                         

                   I know of an MSP that laid off all their non-critical-infrastructure field staff, and even the (now remote, THANK GOD) helpdesk staff had a paycut.
            

                   I have not been laid off myself, but I have aa friend that has been laid off, and an acquaintance that has taken a 20% pay cut. Separately I know 3-4 other people that have lost their jobs that are a degree apart, far more than in
                         

                         
                   Most of the names are Indian … is it safe to determine contractors are the ones being laid off first at the moment?
            
                   I think that is very centered on your qualifications and what you’re looking for. There’s next to no discussion there. This kind of reads like an invitation to talk about the company you left and the difficulty of being laid off.

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