Layoffs of 2023 - Learn to weld

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Bugman's Burden said:
There's no way Maddie Macho is earning six figures a month off of social media. Her tik toks get like 2k views on average and her youtube videos get like 4 views, with many of them having no views.

She tries to sell this outdated girlboss 'land a non-tech job at a tech company' program at a time when tech companies are shedding those exact jobs by the tens of thousands. She doesn't have any apparent partnerships because who would want to sponsor the uggo who bragged about not working? The only revenue streams she seems to have are crap like $8 pre-filled resumes or individual coaching, but she'd have to sell a comical amount to earn six figures -- like 2,000+ resume reviews or 1800+ people signing up for her 4-day workshop every month.

She claims to have 7 people working for her and has worked with thousands of women but I just don't buy it. This is bog-standard linkedin successwin bullshit that falls apart under basic scrutiny, such as the fact that none of her clients go to bat for her on social media.
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Fake it til you make it manifestation bullshit.

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Possibly hot take, I think that basically zero "TikTok influencers" are actually making real money, regardless of what their brand is. I suspect the whole operation is a psychological house of cards where no one will admit that their take-home ranges from pocket change to *maybe* just covering rent; they think everyone else is bringing in five to seven figures of profit, so gotta keep up with the Joneses.
 
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Welding is baby's first trade. Super easy to get trained in, pays like shit, and lots of turnover.
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The trades that are worth going in to have a year or 2 of eating shit that most zoomers wont put in.
In my trade I had to apprentice for 2 years and got treated like a total nigger. Once I hit journeymen I got my own group of niggers and started to make decent money. Now at my level I am able to be picky with the jobs I bid on.
 
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I saw this on the PBD Podcast. It's a forecast of upcoming and current layoffs.
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Accenture: 19k
Meta: 10k
Citigroup: "hundreds"
Thoughtworks: 500
Twitter: 200
Disney: 7k
Affirm: 19%
Zoom: 15%
Dell: 5%
Rivian: 6%
Splunk: 325
FedEx: "More than 10% of management"
HubSpot: 7% (500)
Dow: 2k
Spotify: 6% (600)
Google: 12k
Capital One: "More than 1,100"
Wayfair: 1k
Crypto.com: 20%
Goldman Sachs: 6.5% (3,200)
Verily: 15%
Coinbase: 950
Salesforce: 10% (7k)
LinkedIn: 2,200
SiriusXM: 475
Waymo: 209
General Motors: 500 salaried positions
Yahoo: 20%
DocuSign: 10%
GoDaddy: 8%
eBay: 500
Pinterest: 150
BDG Media: 8%
Intel: 343
PayPal: 7% (2k)
IBM: 1.5% (3,900)
SAP: 3k
3M: 2,500
Vox: 7% (133)
WeWork: 300
Microsoft: 10k
BlackRock: 3% (500)
BNY Mellon: 1,500
DirecTV: 10% ("several hundred"}
Amazon: 18k
Vimeo: 11%
 
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ForTheHoard said:
I saw this on the PBD Podcast. It's a forecast of upcoming and current layoffs.
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Since images seem to be broken, I'll type it out.
Accenture: 19k
Meta: 10k
Citigroup: "hundreds"
Thoughtworks: 500
Twitter: 200
Disney: 7k
Affirm: 19%
Zoom: 15%
Dell: 5%
Rivian: 6%
Splunk: 325
FedEx: "More than 10% of management"
HubSpot: 7% (500)
Dow: 2k
Spotify: 6% (600)
Google: 12k
Capital One: "More than 1,100"
Wayfair: 1k
Crypto.com: 20%
Goldman Sachs: 6.5% (3,200)
Verily: 15%
Coinbase: 950
Salesforce: 10% (7k)
LinkedIn: 2,200
SiriusXM: 475
Waymo: 209
General Motors: 500 salaried positions
Yahoo: 20%
DocuSign: 10%
GoDaddy: 8%
eBay: 500
Pinterest: 150
BDG Media: 8%
Intel: 343
PayPal: 7% (2k)
IBM: 1.5% (3,900)
SAP: 3k
3M: 2,500
Vox: 7% (133)
WeWork: 300
Microsoft: 10k
BlackRock: 3% (500)
BNY Mellon: 1,500
DirecTV: 10% ("several hundred"}
Amazon: 18k
Vimeo: 11%
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What's their source for this? Is it their ass?

I work for a big company I'd expect to be on this list, but it's not
 
Sniperwoof said:
It won't be unless it's a corpo that heavily uses VC. If you look at that list as well as all the other recent layoffs one factor they all have in common is they rely on VC to make payroll l.
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Interesting. My company doesn't. But then you wonder if the echos of the ones that do will reverberate
 
DJ McHamfist said:
What's their source for this? Is it their ass?

I work for a big company I'd expect to be on this list, but it's not
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Should be time stamped.

He reads from another list as well. I rewatched most of that section and I didn't notice him sourcing the article he's reading from.
 
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DJ McHamfist said:
Interesting. My company doesn't. But then you wonder if the echos of the ones that do will reverberate
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Probably indirectly as these companies downsize and cut costs. I expect secondary order effects on companies that rely on their business like enterprise software companies, associated transportation stuff and retail/office services.
 
A Sentient Cloud said:
Possibly hot take, I think that basically zero "TikTok influencers" are actually making real money, regardless of what their brand is.
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This is likely accurate. TikTok, LinkedIn, etc. are just ways to market your “brand” to get people to buy what you’re selling. The “hustle culture” is full of so much bullshit that when someone brags about all the money they’re making, unless they’re willing to provide any kind of proof, they’re lying. This hole is most definitely lying about what she’s doing or making. But she lies to gain leverage from her next employer who doesn’t do that kind of due diligence. Plenty of them out there, desperate to hire a pee oh cee to pump up their ESG statistics.
 
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