Private Sector Layoffs

[Anonymous]

Maybe I’m imagining it but it seems like private sector layoffs are skyrocketing. Today it was Verizon 15,000 jobs and some tech company Synopsys cutting 10% of its workforce and it seems like a new announcement every day. What is going on? It can’t just be AI and this has been happening when stock prices are at all time highs (other than today of course). It’s getting scary out there.

[Anonymous]

It’s been scary but, yes, getting scarier. What’s hard to articulate properly (and get over) is the huge disconnect between the many who are out of work and those who are going about their day, largely unaffected with a regular salary in their pocket. Let’s all increase our empathy during this time, right? Help anyone who reaches out to you for help to get a job, volunteer at food banks, everyone humble ourselves.

[Anonymous]

You are not imagining it. It’s been bad for many months.

[Anonymous]

I saw a few weeks ago Target was letting go 10% or 15% of its corporate staff. The white collar market is pretty bad lately.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think it’s any higher than normal but instead we have heightened attention.

I took a new job a little over two years ago because of large layoffs rippling through my sector and other sectors. I have a neighbor who has been out of work for almost two years.

So, definitely scary and maybe a bit of an increase. However I definitely remember the past few years of the same.

[Anonymous]

I was laid off in September. N of one, but I knew this was coming. Trump is 1000% trying to engineer a depression. Didn’t you read that October had the highest number of layoffs in a single month in over 20 years?

I’ve been applying for jobs obsessively (network is no use - no one is hiring), but I think I might just apply for the bare minimum, take my unemployment and concentrate on other things until the new year. The market is so bad right now.

[Anonymous]

Out of work since April and 100% can’t find anything. It’s awful.

[Anonymous]

It’s definitely higher than normal.

[Anonymous]

Job cuts in October hit highest level for the month in 22 years

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/job-cuts-in-october-hit-highest-level-for-the-month-in-22-years-challenger-says.html
The worst is yet to come and nobody is safe. Watch your money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe I’m imagining it but it seems like private sector layoffs are skyrocketing. Today it was Verizon 15,000 jobs and some tech company Synopsys cutting 10% of its workforce and it seems like a new announcement every day. What is going on? It can’t just be AI and this has been happening when stock prices are at all time highs (other than today of course). It’s getting scary out there.

You are not imagining it

Project 2025 told you it would happen

And it’s going to get way worse

[Anonymous]

The tech oligarchs don’t believe all men are equal or human rights. They literally think some people are better than others, and they are the betters and deserve more. So they are taking more and pushing towards feudalism with all of us former white collar workers picking food in the field. Or dead. They don’t care, because we don’t matter to them.

[Anonymous]

Tech oligarchs don't care about people at all. Tech is an end unto itself to these people. I remember when all the tech fanboys were admiring SBF before he got busted. He was quite literally proud of the fact that he didn't read books and thought it was a waste of time. These people are lizards.

[Anonymous]

more to do with the section 174 tax changes from the first trump admin than ai, i think: https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-microsoft-meta-1851783502

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s been scary but, yes, getting scarier. What’s hard to articulate properly (and get over) is the huge disconnect between the many who are out of work and those who are going about their day, largely unaffected with a regular salary in their pocket. Let’s all increase our empathy during this time, right? Help anyone who reaches out to you for help to get a job, volunteer at food banks, everyone humble ourselves.

This is the United States. We are not in a collectivist culture. Your last two sentences come across as condescending because they clash with norms in an individualistic society and lean toward a more collectivist mindset. In individualistic cultures, people value personal autonomy and the freedom to make their own choices without being told how to feel or behave. Phrases like “Let’s all increase our empathy” and instructions to help job seekers, volunteer, or “humble ourselves” sound like moral directives aimed at the entire group. That kind of framing assumes a shared obligation to act and feel a certain way, which is characteristic of collectivist cultures where group responsibility and social harmony are emphasized. In the U.S. though, such statements can feel intrusive or moralizing, as if you are positioning yourself as having superior insight into what everyone else should be doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s been scary but, yes, getting scarier. What’s hard to articulate properly (and get over) is the huge disconnect between the many who are out of work and those who are going about their day, largely unaffected with a regular salary in their pocket. Let’s all increase our empathy during this time, right? Help anyone who reaches out to you for help to get a job, volunteer at food banks, everyone humble ourselves.

This is the United States. We are not in a collectivist culture. Your last two sentences come across as condescending because they clash with norms in an individualistic society and lean toward a more collectivist mindset. In individualistic cultures, people value personal autonomy and the freedom to make their own choices without being told how to feel or behave. Phrases like “Let’s all increase our empathy” and instructions to help job seekers, volunteer, or “humble ourselves” sound like moral directives aimed at the entire group. That kind of framing assumes a shared obligation to act and feel a certain way, which is characteristic of collectivist cultures where group responsibility and social harmony are emphasized. In the U.S. though, such statements can feel intrusive or moralizing, as if you are positioning yourself as having superior insight into what everyone else should be doing.

Your response is so weird. It’s giving AI.