Anyone's employer started lay-offs already?
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StretfordRed
Afro-European
Yep. 6 people from my current and old team.
Peter Popoff
AKA Petty Pimpiń..🤑
Na but my last day at this current job is today and I start an IT career next week. Current companies currently a sinking ship though.
We just consolidated 9 engineering teams into 3. They told us expect some “staff reductions to reduce redundancy”.
As much as I hate interfacing with clients directly, I’m glad I’m still in implementations. It’s so stressful that people quit before they have a chance to lay anyone off. Team shrinking on its own.
As much as I hate interfacing with clients directly, I’m glad I’m still in implementations. It’s so stressful that people quit before they have a chance to lay anyone off. Team shrinking on its own.
Elim Garak
Veteran
Not so far hopefully we do not have any cuts.
JayYoung713
All Star
I've went through layoffs twice I work in oil & gas. My first time being laid off was right before Thanksgiving 2016. They gave me a nice sevarnce package so I just chilled the whole holiday season and right after New Years I got back on the hunt and had an offer 3 days later. It was a blessing because some of my old coworkers were without work for 6 months or longer.
The second time I was laid off was actually earlier this year in January. I got an even better severance package so I chilled, did a lil traveling, had an insane workout schedule, of course spunt time with my kids traveled with them and etc. I got back on the job hunt in June & got the offer for my current job in July. I'm no longer in oil and gas even though the pay is good, job security is a real concern unfortunately. I currently work in an industry thats practically layoff proof and the pay for my role is comparable to what I got in oil and gas plus I still get to work from home and have time to pursue other interests.
The second time I was laid off was actually earlier this year in January. I got an even better severance package so I chilled, did a lil traveling, had an insane workout schedule, of course spunt time with my kids traveled with them and etc. I got back on the job hunt in June & got the offer for my current job in July. I'm no longer in oil and gas even though the pay is good, job security is a real concern unfortunately. I currently work in an industry thats practically layoff proof and the pay for my role is comparable to what I got in oil and gas plus I still get to work from home and have time to pursue other interests.
Has nothing to do with WFH.
I work remotely and my company is begging me to help find staff and offering $4K bonus for each referral they hire 
Dallas' 4 Eva
Superstar
Nah our recruiting department messaged us offering a referral bonus just last week... I'm an electrician though so we operate a little different.
nah they were saying this, because these companies are so full of shyt they were looking at people who wanted WFH to be laid off first.
desjardins
Superstar
I work remotely, I don't like the fact I have no idea what's going on with people outside my immediate slack group 
I remember seeing that video, you still have the link by any chance