Tech Industry job layoffs looking scary

[#1 pick]

Had my contract swiftly ended at the end of October and been looking ever since. Granted, 4th Quarter is always rough hiring wise but gotdamn. You can usually throw a rock in my field, with my certs, and find u something. Shyt aint moving at all doe.

Nope! This is by far the worst economy I've seen for IT. Usually, it's easy to downgrade and find something temporary till I get something good

 

[JT-Money]

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Find out if the new company pays for unused vacation after you resign. I've done this more times than I can count. I don't use any vacation my last year at a company and get a check for like 10K.

Got and accepted that offer I talked about a few pages back. Start in a couple weeks.

Should be a cool gig but I will plan to boomerang at a higher level in a year if it doesn’t work out like i want.

I was actually surprised, my current company tried to dive and save me but I told them no.

 

[Human Torch]

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Find out if the new company pays for unused vacation after you resign. I've done this more times than I can count. I don't use any vacation my last year at a company and get a check for like 10K.

already hip. Cashing out about 90 hours at this current job. Roughly 10k before taxes. Nice little parting gift.

 

[JT-Money]

already hip. Cashing out about 90 hours at this current job. Roughly 10k before taxes. Nice little parting gift.

When I would time that shyt perfectly with the yearly bonus and get 2 huge checks.

And then tell my new employer I couldn't start right away. I needed a month break for personal reasons.

To spend all this cotdamn cash.

 

[Human Torch]

When I would time that shyt perfectly with the yearly bonus and get 2 huge checks.

And then tell my new employer I couldn't start right away. I needed a month break for personal reasons.

To spend all this cotdamn cash.

I wanted to time it that way but it didn’t work because the lady who had the new role previously is retiring at the end of February so they want me to start mid-feb.

I look at it as a win though. Essentially a head start.

 

[Belize King]

This is why we need community. I be thinking damn am I really not that qualified or is my resume shyt.

I’ve been on Reddit and people are talking about submitting 300-800 job applications. At that point it’s literally just luck. And not necessarily a job that suits you.

I work for L3. When I got here another brother kept an eye on me. He realized what type of person I was so he invited me into a network he was apart of that had all black men within our company.

They had meet ups in Dallas and looked out for each other as best they could. They were 40 deep and most had titles.

Thats what we need in general. I guess frats and Masons do that themselves.

I’m in logistics and am a DoD contractor. We are deep. We should have our own network just so we look out for each other.

 

[Insensitive]

I've experienced a similar vibe to where I work but there's also a "look out for self and self only" among the crowd.

And many of the black people where I work at are stuck in more menial tasks/jobs, most are not in a knowledge worker type
position and few are in middle management and up.

It would definitely take a major change/approach to working together but that's easier said than done when
some black people go out of their way to tokenize themselves.

I'm also in a similar space/environment.

 

[StretfordRed]

Tbh.
I think we're consistently over estimating the abilities of AI
and the fantastical posts always run counter to reality.

I think there will be a change and a shake up, then the "all jobs
replaced by AI" talk will subside and be seen as silly near the
end of this decade.

I’m still waiting on real machine learning. The hype around that and blockchain combo was absolutely wild.

I feel most of the talk was to increase stocks and shares in AI companies, scare people back into the office and other sideways purposes.

Anyway, my job is on for now…

 

[ViShawn]

Rejected the offer and the hiring manager still wants to speak with me. I'm going to tell him what's going on in my career in terms of aspirations and hopefully keep another contact there.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

Indians are in the position they are in because they are wily and cutthroat while also coming off as passive allowing them to make in roads as more than just the white collar slaves they were supposed to be.

This fundamental underestimation of foreigners got blue collar workers packed up decades ago and it seems like tech workers are going to follow them off of that same cliff.

This was the wake up call that well paid but ultimately expendable tech white boys and girls needed. Indians don't need a full arcade, catered lunches or a "nap room" to churn out data harvesting tech slop, they'll just be happy with a bathroom that has running water for them to dip their hands in to wipe their ass.

I'm no six certer but just by the way things are looking you may want to start networking with these Indians because those same shytty hands will be signing your checks soon, if they haven't hired their cousins to replace you for slave wages.

 

[Insensitive]

I mean if we're being real, Indians are already heavily deep in the tech sector.

This is not a new development, it's just one that mediocre white people have had to run up against.

So it's not that they *WILL* be signing checks, it's that they ARE, RIGHT NOW.

Look at the leadership in the tech sector and look at the people attending high powered universities.
I can go to UCLA or USC and I will literally bump into someone who is Asian
(Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc.) with VERY little effort.

Please understand that it's way, WAY to late for that and that we're already in those stages where the
white reactionary has to deal with being middle of the road as fukk. You go in right wing spaces
all you see is a bunch of whining and crying about how "There aren't white children STEM!".


Yeah, go fukking figure, you fukks (Blue AND Red) decimated the American educational system and
continue to push for privatization and higher educational costs.

From there you completely turned STEM, that isn't Engineering or Medicine into a poorly paid LOCAL idea factory.
So what happens to the best and brightest? They go into industries where they DO NOT have to PRODUCE, just SEEK RENT.

Wall Street and all of those different pathways (QUANT Funds, Hedge Funds, Private Equity, MBB etc.) are notorious for scraping
people who would've been Scientists, Physicists, World class Engineers etc. in the past. Now they just develop highly sophisticated
ways to legally rob instead of fukking rockets or Artificial Intelligence.


The knock on effect is Black Americans are entering an increasingly hostile educational environment that leaves
them indebted and financially destitute before they can even start their professional lives.

 

[Black Panther]

IT Operations stay winning

Equipment still needs to be configured, deployed, and troubleshot, no matter how much AI advances

 

[4-Rin]

Rejected the offer and the hiring manager still wants to speak with me. I'm going to tell him what's going on in my career in terms of aspirations and hopefully keep another contact there.

If they offer you more cash and stock would you change your mind?

 

[ViShawn]

If they offer you more cash and stock would you change your mind?

Haha of course! Everyone has a price.

But this AI wave may pay off. Sales Kickoff for work this month. Just signed up for NVIDIA GTC next month and going to work the booth and network. With the right move I could make way more than that offer gave me in a more emerging technology

 

[JT-Money]