#layoff

[dougielombax]

Fucking hell.

Absolute scumbag behaviour on their part!

They’re a money printing machine!

It’s not like they NEED to lay anybody off.

For fuckness’ sake!

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #vent post #fucking hell #epic games #layoff

[sweetswesf]

Affirmations

Don't be so hard on yourself

You got this

A little at a time

1% everyday is better than 70% one day and nothing other days

Consistency is the key

If you only knew how close you were...

You can't quit just because it's tough

Let tomorrow worry about itself

Be more present

God's got you

God has something better promised for you

#Youtube #tech #software engineering #software engineer #check in #black in tech #black in the bay #san francisco #silicon valley #engineer #python #black women in tech #women in tech #startup #layoff #100 days of python #100 days of code #programming #coding #pytest #systems engineer #affirmations #2023 #2023 resolutions

[thejazzywaffles]

Ok hear me out, what if all the laid-off devs from the last while just... formed a game studio. Like a big, massive, fuck-off huge game studio. Full of talent from all over the industry. Fully willing and able to make their passion projects real. Getting 100% of the profits because oops the only people there are the developers.

NGL I'd check games out from a studio like that lol

#game development #game industry #layoff #I know “just devs” might create a business nightmare at that scale but fuck you it's funny and also fictional so I can make it work w/magic

[crafantale]

4000 AI layoffs in Tech Industry

Tech Bros think it's good artist lose their job to AI art

Well all the companies who replace their employees are tech works

Including IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announcing hiring pause if the job can be done by AI and planning to replace 8000

There's a reason why a lot of AI advocates are CEO

They're coming for all jobs and yours too

#AI art #Tech #Layoff #IBM #Arvind Krishna

[altocat]

Feeling a bit better. Still depressed but making a nice list of things to look forward to. 

Hopefully will have plenty of writing for you guys now in the future. I’m so grateful for the outpouring of love and support. You guys are amazing. So more to come! Going to try to stay positive.

#writing #updates #layoff #thanks guys #love you

[thesocklesswonder]

Source

#geico #geico layoffs #layoff #layoff season #here it comes meme #meme #news #us news

[soloragoldsun]

I'll be honest, guys. I don't know if I'll be getting Dreadwolf when it comes out. Between laying off people who have been with the company and the Dragon Age franchise since the beginning, and now the union-busting and refusing to pay severance, Bioware is showing itself to be utterly unworthy of any support.

I love Thedas and I love the games that I do have. I'll definitely continue writing fanfiction for the series, as I have several stories I'm working on and want to tell. I was looking forward to seeing what Dreadwolf brought, even if I was nervous about several things (the treatment of the Dalish storyline being a big one). Now, I think anything involving the future in the story of my Wardens, my Hawkes, and my Inquisitors will be solely in the form of fanfiction.

Maybe Bioware will pull its head out of its ass and do right by their people after all, but that seems about as likely as the Chantry suddenly inviting the Dalish Clans and the Qunari over for a cup of tea...

#bioware #critical #dragon age dreadwolf #boycott #thedas #personal #union busting #layoff

[realityfragments]

NatGeo Lays Off More Writers. :(

In probably the saddest news for me this week, National Geographic has layed off the last remaining staff writers. It was a matter of time, I suppose, with the Internet shaking things up for better and worse, and with National Geographic being a business – but how many of us have really considered National Geographic a business? In many ways, it is akin to the BBC in showing us our world, so…

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#culture #Disney #icon #journalism #layoff #National Geographic #writing

[lifeofmediocrity]

I'm absolutely terrified of my job doing layoffs. If it happens, I'm fairly sure I'll be homeess as i won't be able to find a job. I have physical restrictions now that i didn't have when i last had to work in retail. (Nothing major, but enough i can't lug around boxes or heavy objects)

I am bad at writing resumes and I do not do well with job searches.

I am full of pessimism, fear, and the dread that i will die in poverty.

#layoff #fear of being fired #layoffs #failure #pessimism

[p1xiara]

Jerk Employer Part 2

A few days later I found out calls had been set up by the 2nd line manager, who’s direct reportees people were involved, and I was the only one left in my team with a role. I was not invited on these calls, when asked why I was not on the call by someone, they were told I’d be contacted separately. I was not contacted by anyone, I don’t know why I was never contacted. I asked questions on Teams, and I was ignored, so I gave up. I was then sent an email by a fellow C grade who was also affected, which stated that C grades could not apply for the E grade roles. I emailed my 3rd LM cc'ing the HR rep asking for confirmation on this matter and a call was set up with the 3 of us. I was told on the call I could not apply for the E grade roles, they thought we could, but they got it wrong. But I was told I could apply for a front line role (taking customer calls) and they could help with that. I would only need to move north and be in a building for 3 days a week and 2 at home. When I stated I was a home worker due to disabilities, the HR rep shrugged his shoulders and said "er". This was via a team call and they both had their camera on. That was the support from HR in BT. A shrug that I was disabled. A shrug that it was clear it wasn’t going to find any help. I went looking for some help and support about being disabled and finding a new role within BT. I came up blank, there was no real help, just documents that served no purpose in the help I needed. So, I emailed the 3rd LM asking for where I could go and get help about finding a new role but taking in my disabilities also, and he replied it would be down to the new hiring manager. So basically no support from 2nd or 3rd line managers in helping or supporting their employees who are disabled. We all had consultation calls with the 3rd LM, now all my colleagues had been on these calls and they lasted minutes with this man. Not mine, I made it clear how angry I was, I laid everything out to him. About the support I wasn’t receiving, how my second line manager had calls without me being on them. How that made me feel as a person, and why did they think it was ok to be treated this way. Especially at how the HR rep presented himself in the previous call, shrugging his shoulders when I said I was a home worker due to disability. He apologized and said to contact him with any help I needed. He must have spoken to 2nd LM as they called the following day. The opening on this call wasn't their fault that they never spoke to me, they felt it was out of their hands. I cut that call very short after explaining how they made me feel as a person, and how it proved what they thought of me as a member of her wider team. It hurt me very deeply that they did that. As there was still a hold on any new roles I had no choice but to take redundancy and leave the BT. BT states as part of our diversity policy to ensure we meet the needs of all our customers, BT encourages applications from people with disabilities and supports their professional development. My experience has thrown light on the fact that this is not the case. HR shrugged his shoulders at me when I stated I was a home worker due to disabilities. This to me, shows how much BT supports their disabled employees. We are worth more than a shrug. But I'm calling this out. They have done this to me, I won't have been the first. And I definitely won't be the last but if I can make just 1 person be treated better than I was I'd be so happy. BT is no longer what it was, and those in their ivory towers need to know how the way me, and everyone else was treated so horrifically.

#hirebunchesandfirebunches #JobLossAnxiety #jobloss #FutureOfWork #job #jobdepression #jobsearch #badboss #bademployer #lies #negative #humanresource #humanresourcemanagement #badexperience #layoff #firings #hr #negotiations

[biglisbonnews]

Google became the latest tech company to cut thousands of jobs after two years of hiring spree Google’s parent company Alphabet became the latest tech giant to announce layoffs.Read more... https://qz.com/google-tech-layoffs-2023-alphabet-sundar-pichai-1850010865

#google #economyoftheunitedstates #amazon #artificialintelligence #chromeos #layoff #labor #alphabetinc #electronicarts #salesforce #companies #pichai #sundarpichai #microsoft #alphabet #chrismcdonald #goldmansachs #business #Ananya Bhattacharya #Quartz

[sweetswesf]

I can’t remember when I wrote these down, but I think it was last year sometime:

Interview Prep Goals To Accomplish

Complete React tutorial

Get to a place where the AlgoExpert Hard questions are easy for me

Notice & understand common algo solving patterns

Clearly describe how the internet works

Complete Advent of Code 2022

Complete 100 Days of Code

Complete AlgoExpert from AlgoExpert

Complete FrontendExpert from AlgoExpert

Complete MLExpert from AlgoExpert

Complete SystemsExpert from AlgoExpert

Building a plan before solving problems and speaking through them as I work

Understand latency, availability, load balancer, long polling, web socket

Understand sync/async flow

Understand pytests better

Understand protobufs better

Passing practice interviews

Passing real interviews

Get multiple offers

Here’s what I’ve actually been able to accomplish:

Got pretty far in React tutorial, learned a good amount, interviewed with it, & dropped it after realizing there’s so much I need to do to get hired as a full stack and solidified my place as a Backend SWE :) for now at least. I know enough React to do projects as I need to, but not enough to pass an interview.

SOME AlgoExpert Hard questions are feasible for me, nowhere near EASY yet, and I don’t HAVE to get there…for any reason

Notice & understand common algo solving patterns

Somewhat understand and can articulate how the internet works

Completed some questions on AlgoExpert from AlgoExpert

Did some FrontendExpert from AlgoExpert & took some of their quizzes

Started SystemsExpert from AlgoExpert & took some of their quizzes

Building a plan before solving problems and speaking through them as I work

Understand latency, availability, load balancers

Understand sync/async flow somewhat

Understand pytests better

Passing practice interviews

Passing real interviews, no offers yet though

Completed 5-week interview prep course

Learned more about APIs

Understand how to implement pagination & searching

Understand Postman, SQLAlchemy, & FastAPI

Can call APIs in a coding interview environment like Coderpad

Here are some things in my life I have accomplished also:

Improved my relationship with my family.

I’m strong as heck physically and have been losing fat and gaining muscle.

I can sit and work 12 hour days. You couldn’t get me to side for more than 3 previously.

I can get through the day without a nap.

I’m more disciplined in every area of my life.

I release people who don’t want to be in my life anymore.

Got admitted to an improv theater after passing their multi-day auditions.

Made a rude guy who disrespected me apologize to my face.

All glory to God.

#Youtube #tech #software engineering #software engineer #check in #black in tech #black in the bay #san francisco #silicon valley #engineer #python #black women in tech #women in tech #startup #layoff #100 days of python #100 days of code #programming #coding #pytest #systems engineer #codeblr

[xtremeservers]

There’s an uncomfortable sense among the... https://www.xtremeservers.com/blog/the-amazing-upcoming-games-that-make-xbox-playstation-and-nintendos-2024-so-much-more-interesting/?feed_id=137528&_unique_id=6622a58d2df9d&The%20Amazing%20Upcoming%20Games%20That%20Make%20Xbox%2C%20PlayStation%2C%20and%20Nintendo%27s%202024%20So%20Much%20More%20Interesting

#Featured #NewReleases #Xbox #Among #community #gaming #industry #layoff #Nintendo #numbers #pc #PlayStation #sense #stack #theres #uncomfortable

[godwin247]

CBN sacked over 100 staffs

A total of 50 staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) were sacked on Monday, April 8 by the current management of the apex bank. This brings to 117 the total number of disengagements since CBN governor Olayemi Cardoso’s appointment. The termination of appointments affects directors, deputy directors, assistant directors, principal managers, senior managers and lower ranking staff. The…

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#CBN #Employment #facebook #Government Job #layoff #messenger #NEWS #Nigeria #sacked #YouTube

[superprojekt]

EA Layoffs 5% (670) of workforce to refocus on its own IPs

Again on Twitter Gaming layoffs continue in 2024. It seems more common place now EA previously had a round of layoffs in 2023, but it looks like this time they need to have more sustainability on their business, moving away from licensed IP and

Again on Twitter Gaming layoffs continue in 2024. It seems more common place now EA previously had a round of layoffs in 2023, but it looks like this time they need to have more sustainability on their business. They are moving away from licensed IP and doubling down on their own projects IPs and communities. I am reminded that change is a constant in the games industry, and game developers need…

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#layoff

[cgbosss]

EA Layoffs 5% (670) of workforce to refocus on its own IPs

Again on Twitter Gaming layoffs continue in 2024. It seems more common place now EA previously had a round of layoffs in 2023, but it looks like this time they need to have more sustainability on their business, moving away from licensed IP and

Again on Twitter Gaming layoffs continue in 2024. It seems more common place now EA previously had a round of layoffs in 2023, but it looks like this time they need to have more sustainability on their business. They are moving away from licensed IP and doubling down on their own projects IPs and communities. I am reminded that change is a constant in the games industry, and game developers need…

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#layoff