Layoffs of 2023 - Learn to weld

[Tomato flowers]

“primarily focused on non-engineering roles” look out for a sudden glut of “business analysts” and “Agile coaches” posting #opentowork on LinkedIn

 

[Gar For Archer]

Meta hints that there may be more layoffs in the future despite promising no more layoffs earlier.

To be fair, if you work for Facebook and were spared in the first round of layoffs, you’d be retarded if you didn’t immediately start polishing up your resume and start at least browsing through job postings.

 

[Kane Lives]

Meta hints that there may be more layoffs in the future despite promising no more layoffs earlier.

Lol. Anyone who believed a Big Tech corpo won't look at further reduction in their headcount in this economy doesn't deserve their cushy job to begin with.

 

[NoReturn]

I'm less interested in the actual content of articles like these than the fact I seem to be seeing more of them on a regular basis recently.


Sources:
https://nypost.com/2023/02/27/google-employee-jacob-pratt-33-found-dead-in-nyc-apartment/
https://nypost.com/2023/02/27/esther-crawford-twitter-exec-who-slept-in-office-overnight-is-fired/

 

[Super Nemesis 64]

General Motors is reportedly cutting around 500 jobs, a month after CEO said ‘We’re not planning layoffs’​

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/g...r-ceo-said-were-not-planning-layoffs-8adf449e

I am seeing a lot of these 'we're not planning layoffs' stories lately.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/mattel-lays-off-workers-including-234754790.html

Mattel laying off 93 employees after 4th quarter net profits down 93% compared to last year. fucking 93%.

Toy companies I refuse to buy girls gifts from:
Mattel: multiple lines with troon dolls
MGAE: child whore dolls
Hasbro: brony ponies
Disney: Disney
Even if other adults grit their teeth and buy it, I won't.

 

[GoysGoneWild]

Currently in said position. Just got out of college and was hoping to be hired by my internship company as they claimed I surpassed all expectations, but they were in a merger, so shit out of luck even though the team wanted me.

I honestly worry about this as offers have been thrown out to me decently regularly, but many of them are shit. It is all recruiters of these 12 week coding programs for those with no experience that then get pimped out to some big corp. All of this is of course 12 an hour, so basically a second internship with a year contract is your reward for schooling, kill me now.

All these companies set up 5 years work experience for entry level. I understand that some of it is probably a tactic for weeding out people, but not all of it is. I am hoping something comes about for me as it is no longer January, but who knows. I hope I am not passed over for dead weight simply because their resume had a do nothing tech job on it for 5 years.

Learn to lie on your resume. The system is stacked against you and is quite eager to fuck you over. You owe it nothing. Adapt accordingly.

 

[God's drunkest driver]

Learn to weld​

I know this is a meme but I had a funny experience with this recently. I recently had to fill a welding position, and contrary to the current meme about the trades lacking people, there was a glut of candidates. Maybe the "it's easy to get a job in the trades" meme seems to be a bit mislead in an import everything country with a dead manufacturing sector.

 

[Flatline]

there was a glut of candidates.

I suspect most trades are low demand and extremely high supply.

 

[LeroyJenkem]

I suspect most trades are low demand and extremely high supply.

Give it ten years, we're nearing the cliff when all the boomers retire and there is no one to take their place.

 

[Bugman's Burden]

I know this is a meme but I had a funny experience with this recently. I recently had to fill a welding position, and contrary to the current meme about the trades lacking people, there was a glut of candidates. Maybe the "it's easy to get a job in the trades" meme seems to be a bit mislead in an import everything country with a dead manufacturing sector.

Yeah I strongly suspect that "learn to weld" is the newest driveby fake advice like "Go to college!" was or "learn to code" or "McDonald's is always hiring" that people give when they're not too invested in the listener's well-being. I know an older guy who did welding and he made it sound like it's hell on the body, difficult to do past middle age, and the way to make real money is to have your own business.

It might also be that as people go to trade school because of the meme advice, the supply of tradesmen will shoot up and the pay will decrease. When they complain, they'll be told "sucks to suck, I make $353 / hr.!" or "learn to farm."

 

[Absolutego]

Lol. Anyone who believed a Big Tech corpo won't look at further reduction in their headcount in this economy doesn't deserve their cushy job to begin with.

Meta's also uniquely awfully poised to get skullfucked during this recession because their core userbase is dying off and their CEO spent a few billion on a vanity project even its own engineers don't bother to actually use.

 

[attractive_pneumonia]

I know an older guy who did welding and he made it sound like it's hell on the body, difficult to do past middle age, and the way to make real money is to have your own business.

Positional welding is hell on the body. Just doing it in a shop when stuff is clamped down isn't that hard. The only thing bad about it is the damage it does to your eyes long term.

 

[AbendCode12]

the way to make real money is to have your own business.

This is only part of it. One of the other parts to wealth it to underpay employees and use that difference from market value to underpaid employee to increase the owner's pay. This obviously increases in a direct line with the more underpaid employees that are hired/contracted.

 

[Flatline]

Give it ten years, we're nearing the cliff when all the boomers retire and there is no one to take their place.

Even with the boomers gone, there'll still be tough competition for trade jobs that aren't total shit.

 

[Stoneheart]

Mattel: multiple lines with troon dolls

Arent those Transformers?

 

[dissociating]

Positional welding is hell on the body. Just doing it in a shop when stuff is clamped down isn't that hard. The only thing bad about it is the damage it does to your eyes long term.

you are a retarded nigger who has never used a welder in your life if you think that.

 

[attractive_pneumonia]

you are a retarded nigger who has never used a welder in your life if you think that.

"Frank you know this would be way worse if we had it securely on a table with easy access!"

 

[56 others]

Welding is baby's first trade. Super easy to get trained in, pays like shit, and lots of turnover.

 

[tehpope]

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/meta-cut-more-jobs-soon-week

The job cut, which could start as early as this week, will add to the November layoffs of approximately 13% of its workforce (equivalent to around 11,000 employees). Sources said the job cut would be ready before CEO Mark Zuckerberg goes on parental leave for his third child.

It keeps happening.