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Thomas Wouters

It's a tough day when everyone you work with directly, including your manager, is laid off -- excuse me, "had their roles reduced", and you're asked to onboard their replacements, people told to take those very same roles just in a different country who are not any happier about it. (It's almost like capitalism isn't actually good and you shouldn't want to live in the US.)

I suspect I'll be taking Akio on extra long walks for the time being.

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Jeffrey Yasskin

@Yhg1s That sucks. Have you figured out what you're going to do about it? Do the new folks need any help creating a union or works council to organize with?

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Thomas Wouters

@jyasskin the new ones are in Munich, so they have a works council (as do I, in .nl). The right people there have been notified. Right now I'm trying to not burn any bridges while I figure out what I can do for the old team.

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xinit ☕

@Yhg1s @jyasskin my normal concern when I was in North America and this happened would be that my days would be numbered and I'd be gone two weeks later with zero severance.

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BiggestBulb 💡🏳️‍🌈🧑‍💻

@Yhg1s I'm really sorry. We really are living in a hellscape

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Sander Goudswaard

@Yhg1s ugh, you are synonym with Python (Hissssss)
Hope you make the best of it.

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CarRamrod

@Yhg1s take care of your health before anything else, and that includes mental health especially!

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Peter Ludemann

@Yhg1s
Management by McKinsey?
(A programmer is a programmer is a programmer ...)

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Laurent Le Brun

@Yhg1s Sorry Thomas this happened.

The whole layoffs situation feels absurd, especially when Google spent a year doing (voluntary) layoffs in Munich as well.

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Dark Sheep Arts

@Yhg1s

Having had a similar experience, I'm so sorry. It absolutely sucks.

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bcostlow

@Yhg1s

Unplugged for a few days, come back to see this being talked about everywhere.

Whisk(e)y Tango Foxtrot.

Sorry. This sucks.

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Adam Johnson :django: :python:

@Yhg1s I am sorry to hear, that is a comepltley nuts situation

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Suitably ballyhooed

@Yhg1s this sucks, even more so when you remember that layoffs are calculated to demotivate a number of the remaining people enough that they quit on their own ):

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Stargirl

@Yhg1s Working with you and @gpshead were some of my favorite memories of my time at Google. I'm so sorry to hear about this, it's fucking infuriating.

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Daniel Brotherston

@Yhg1s I dunno.....a day where I'm asked to onboard my manager sounds like it can't be all bad :)

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