Business Big Tech Layoffs Megathread - Techbros... we got too cocky...

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Since my previous thread kinda-sorta turned into a soft megathread, and the tech layoffs will continue until morale improves, I think it's better to group them all together.

For those who want a QRD:


Just this week we've had these going on:

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But it's not just Big Tech, the vidya industry is also cleaning house bigly:

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All in all, rough seas ahead for the techbros.
 
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namelesstacotruck said:
Its not a word. Tcs types is getting ramped down in favor of near shore.
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TCS' solution in Australia is to just open an office locally then ship Pajeets in by the planeload. Saw it happen where a company outsourced everything except IT field services to a "local" TCS office and you might as well have redirected the lines to Mumbai. (They actually did this at one point and violated the contract since the Pajeets got overwhelmed by the call volume)

That company is eating shit for it big time and trying to rehire locals, but it's tough as sacking all those people before has given them an awful reputation. Nobody with a choice wants to work there and it's so bad apparently my old position got filled with a stinking Pajeet who has been in the country <1 year and whose only prior experience was working for Wipro!

I enjoy seeing the company suffer but I'm sad that poo covered hands have completely trashed the infrastructure that my team and I spent thousands of hours putting together. It ran like clockwork before and the stories I hear now are just horrific.

Microsoft has been leaning on Central Americans for a bit so I've dealt with them before and they're definitely better than Pajeets but the one time I managed to get someone in Redmond, it was an absolute dream by comparison. After spending hours getting routed to every shithole all over the globe, speaking to a white person in the US was fantastic, but it only ever happened once. :(
 
moocow said:
I don't even go to my mailbox to get the mail more than once a week
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Imagine how much money they'd save if they started a program to start weekly mail or deliver mail every other day
Ahriman said:
But he surely was rolling in cash... check out his house.
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Or maybe the black guy was living beyond his means?
FedPostalService said:
have you noticed all the corporate discount schemes have been getting pretty rubbish?
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It's been that way for over a decade, any gift card or tickets discounted there are more discounted at other websites. It's just a meme so they can go "we have this benefit" so gullible retards think they can find something good.

Even worse is that they use that to replace employee discounts.
 
Get the rope Macaulay! said:
Imagine how much money they'd save if they started a program to start weekly mail or deliver mail every other day
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Imagine how much money they'd save if they just stopped delivering junk mail entirely. They'd need far fewer vehicles and drivers, fewer mail carriers, burn up less fuel, waste less space, generate less trash, spend less time sorting and handling mail pieces, etc.

It'd be trivial to implement, too. Require mail to be enclosed in an envelope or sealed package (no loose "newsprint" with a card with "Current Resident" printed on it). Require mail to be addressed to a specific named entity (person, business or formal title or department) instead of "Current Resident." Charge regular first-class prices for all mail pieces instead of that "pre-sorted bulk rate" bullshit.

That way they're not strictly refusing to deliver junk mail, but rather just making it prohibitively expensive by charging spammers as much as regular mail users. Junk mail only happens because it's so cheap. I've never believed the cope that "oh junk mail is what subsidizes the postal service and keeps it alive," especially not since the cost of stamps goes up every few years despite that "subsidy."
 
Terrifik said:
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No surprise, when in eight years they managed to release two mid VR games in a new franchise, that while admittedly very good looking, lacked heavily in gameplay even by VR standards and sold poorly enough that if you go onto Meta's own storefront for their VR games, and search "Lone Echo", neither game comes up in the main scroll of search, beating out by much more relevant titles - Like an Attack on Titan game. Because the games don't actually work with the Standalone Meta headsets - they can't run it. You have to switch over to the Link VR listings, because it only works wiring an older rift headset up to your PC. So yea, not exactly the games Meta wants, needs, and evidently not games that sold much at all if its imposing, 100ish member subreddit following is anything to go by either.

I feel like all the people calling studios 'sad endings' forget they're businesses, not artist daycares. Ready At Dawns entire last decade has been pretty games that aren't worth playing, and that's not gonna fly. Sad endings are reserved for tragedies, this is just a failure to become anything worthwhile in the first place. Nobody is going to look back on their work and care at all. Even go back before the Order, those God of War games were "Pretty Ok PSP releases", hardly record breakers or legends in their own right.

With any luck, those artists will find work with studios that actually have good gameplay designers too, then maybe they can make something worth talking about. Leaving them stuck in VR hell was the worst thing for them, not enough processing power to make it pretty, not enough gameplay design to make it fun.
 
Ahriman said:
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Bahahahahaha! Fuck you, San Francisco! Have another pricey office building you can't convince anyone to step over the shit-covered sidewalks to rent and work in.

Oh I can't wait for the inevitable screeching from the holdover SF fags who now have to "debase" themselves by traveling outside their bug hive. Have fun on those trans-bay Bart trains, snowflakes!
 
I legitimately wonder how this massive tech culling will affect enshittification of our platforms – positively or negatively. On one hand, it could mean a mass exodus of pajeets, DIE hires, and TikTok girls with their "day in the life" videos – which means maybe we'll get some actual competent tech workers back to writing real codes and fixing the broken algorithms. On the other hand, the staff/budget cuts may mean overworked, understaffed employees – and therefore more outages, latency, and even worse changes. I just want my 2000s-era Google search back, for crying out loud.

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Looks like the intro to Kink.com videos, ha (not that I'd know what that looks like or anything).
 
Ahriman said:
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Another techbro takes the blackpill.
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Of fucking course you are disposable. Imagine thinking your dumb ass is indisposable to a two trillion dollar company. Your workplace is not your family. No boss thinks you are going to stay at a job when you have a better offer at another place (taking into account longterm professional growth). And only an idiot thinks a company would keep you on if you become a net negative.
 
Ron Jeremy Stan Account said:
I legitimately wonder how this massive tech culling will affect enshittification of our platforms – positively or negatively. On one hand, it could mean a mass exodus of pajeets, DIE hires, and TikTok girls with their "day in the life" videos – which means maybe we'll get some actual competent tech workers back to writing real codes and fixing the broken algorithms. On the other hand, the staff/budget cuts may mean overworked, understaffed employees – and therefore more outages, latency, and even worse changes. I just want my 2000s-era Google search back, for crying out loud.


Looks like the intro to Kink.com videos, ha (not that I'd know what that looks like or anything).
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More likely? The random and hackneyed job of trying to cut costs by gutting the senior staff will lead to a permanent and irreparable loss of institutional knowledge required to maintain the infrastructure. Big Tech will increasingly resemble that one chart where everything hinges on some Gen X boomer who's paid a fortune simply to stay and keep the lights on, but inexplicably, dedicate next to no resources to training his successor. Cue shocked pikachu faces when said boomer retires in ten years and no amount of money they offer will convince him to stay.
 
Ron Jeremy Stan Account said:
I legitimately wonder how this massive tech culling will affect enshittification of our platforms – positively or negatively.
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For the majority of software platforms, it will almost assuredly be an acceleration. Even the ones that are smart enough to not focus on individual salaries while cutting (IE not killing the most experienced and talented employees) still have to face the issue of convincing them to stay in an environment where their teams just got gutted and projects axed. Even if they're confident that they're not next, you might end up with the baby chasing that bathwater out the window for lack of anything more interesting to do. Top tier tech talent usually comes with the kind of autism that makes them really, really, really want to use it, a lot of them will leave if you kill their 'fun' new development projects and relegate them to glorified virtual box administrators, even temporarily.

In the free money times, this usually self resolved as top talent fucked off, got investor money, hired a bunch of castaway talent by picking out some gems corporate cuts missed out on, and a whole new wave of startups hits. Now, in the constrained environment, they might really just fuck off and not bother.
 
Sweeter and Savoury said:
Things are getting worse

forget recession it's starting to look like a depression is coming.
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I keep on telling the union mongs in work there’s going to be layoffs and they need to keep their heads down but they seem to think that because the firm has cash reserves a strike will get them a massive pay deal and more staff.

Since Labour took over here in Bongland the media have stopped hinting about how the global economy is and even riots aren’t a problem.

A lot of people are going to get a massive shock in the near future.
 
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