Anonymous wrote:Same at my non profit. First time I’ve worked somewhere that is actively doing layoffs and they are letting people go who have been working here forever, some more than 15 years. They are now “redundant”. It’s very hard not to feel paranoid that my job will be next…how to people manage this?

that is not so bad.

try going thru layoffs and then having H1Bs show up the next week at the same desks asking how to connect to the printer in garbled english.

or try going thru layoffs and having to train your H1B replacements

And the entire time having the DCUM elites cheer on the process of expanding H1B and OPTs to replace US citizens, those damn deplorables you know.

summary of our careers of having never "quit" a job until we retired

DH (computer career): started working in the 70s, laid off in the 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s retired 2023

me (science career): started working in the 80s, laid off in the 90s, 00s, 10s retired 2025

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Anonymous wrote:My role is safe but I’m in the know about who is going to be impacted. I know the managers who need to deliver the news. There’s lots of angst and it just sucks.

No questions. Just a vent. Thank you for listening.

Sorry to hear this. Having to fire people is the main reason I have never sought a promotion past my current job. You have to be a psycho not to care about the distress you are causing. I have been fired one time from a crappy sales job 25 years ago, and you never forget the blank soulless look on the person doing the firing.

Where are you that you can remain an IC into your 50s? That’s why people get promoted, to avoid being fired for ageism

We are going to need UBI. I hope our billionaire oligarchs feel generous and want to avoid food riots.

I'm sorry. No matter how much the boosting of morale and data, the reality is the economy is in a bad place. Very hard time to live through

Anonymous wrote:My role is safe but I’m in the know about who is going to be impacted. I know the managers who need to deliver the news. There’s lots of angst and it just sucks.

No questions. Just a vent. Thank you for listening.

Sorry to hear this. Having to fire people is the main reason I have never sought a promotion past my current job. You have to be a psycho not to care about the distress you are causing. I have been fired one time from a crappy sales job 25 years ago, and you never forget the blank soulless look on the person doing the firing.

Same with my company in the manufacturing sector

You are human. The US is not the place to be without a job for a long time. I volunteered for a year for a homeless organization. It significantly impact my views about everything.

Same at my non profit. First time I’ve worked somewhere that is actively doing layoffs and they are letting people go who have been working here forever, some more than 15 years. They are now “redundant”. It’s very hard not to feel paranoid that my job will be next…how to people manage this?

What industry?

Same with my company. It’s been happening since Feb. Everyone just feels like we are in a slow moving line up to the guillotine.

Anonymous wrote:are you a fed?

No because OP would have said RIF

Anonymous wrote:My role is safe but I’m in the know about who is going to be impacted. I know the managers who need to deliver the news. There’s lots of angst and it just sucks.

No questions. Just a vent. Thank you for listening.

Been there. Obviously better than being laid off, but it’s not fun.

are you a fed?

My role is safe but I’m in the know about who is going to be impacted. I know the managers who need to deliver the news. There’s lots of angst and it just sucks.

No questions. Just a vent. Thank you for listening.