It’s probably healthier to just move on, at least that was what it was for me when I was let go during the Great Recession when the company when bankrupt and reneged on severance paying only the legal requirements.
The short answer is start your own company and to contract. The more realistic you are about your abilities the quicker you’ll find work. For IT the big three are network analysts, database administrators and system administrators (cloud?). Endless jobs. I wish I had known that then but I was in telecom network engineering. It’s a limited field.
> In other words, all the things you want to spill but can’t post on LinkedIn.
Eh. We need to normalize posting even the risqué stuff on LinkedIn. Much better reach than a random blog or other website.
I post things on LinkedIn all the time- every day- that would turn some employers off. As a software engineer, I’m probably not getting hired anywhere, anyway. But also as a software engineer, historically I’m in demand enough that employers will overlook certain things.
We need to use our privilege, not squander it. That’s a tragedy of the commons.
I’m privileged in that I’m not only a white male and therefore automatically garner the respect of other white males, but my employment situation is such that there’s no risk of a disgruntled Karen reporting me to my employer and getting me fired because I post things she disagrees with.
Obviously this extends to unionizing too… god imagine if we had unionized before the mass layoffs, before the RTO mandates. Oh well. God bless America or something…
People have to stop putting blind faith in hopeful obedience and expecting anything but being used by corporations. Worker-owned co-ops and unions are essential to restoring balance and ensuring long-term stability over private equity vulture capitalist destruction.
It’s probably healthier to just move on, at least that was what it was for me when I was let go during the Great Recession when the company when bankrupt and reneged on severance paying only the legal requirements.
Best way to move on is to find another role. Tough to do that when everyone is getting laid off and the market is bleak.
So if you can’t move on, getting support like this is probably the next best thing
Any advice for folks going through the same thing from someone who has lived it?
The short answer is start your own company and to contract. The more realistic you are about your abilities the quicker you’ll find work. For IT the big three are network analysts, database administrators and system administrators (cloud?). Endless jobs. I wish I had known that then but I was in telecom network engineering. It’s a limited field.
> In other words, all the things you want to spill but can’t post on LinkedIn.
Eh. We need to normalize posting even the risqué stuff on LinkedIn. Much better reach than a random blog or other website.
I post things on LinkedIn all the time- every day- that would turn some employers off. As a software engineer, I’m probably not getting hired anywhere, anyway. But also as a software engineer, historically I’m in demand enough that employers will overlook certain things.
We need to use our privilege, not squander it. That’s a tragedy of the commons.
I’m privileged in that I’m not only a white male and therefore automatically garner the respect of other white males, but my employment situation is such that there’s no risk of a disgruntled Karen reporting me to my employer and getting me fired because I post things she disagrees with.
Obviously this extends to unionizing too… god imagine if we had unionized before the mass layoffs, before the RTO mandates. Oh well. God bless America or something…
This feels like a submarine ad for a newsletter about getting laid off.
People have to stop putting blind faith in hopeful obedience and expecting anything but being used by corporations. Worker-owned co-ops and unions are essential to restoring balance and ensuring long-term stability over private equity vulture capitalist destruction.