If you were laid off at Google or otherwise impacted,...

If you were laid off at Google or otherwise impacted, please feel free to reach out to me to chat. I know several excellent people who lost their jobs on Friday.

Now is also a good time to plug the Alphabet Workers Union. I've somewhat quietly been a member for exactly a year (tomorrow is my anniversary), but going forward that will be less quietly. Your job does not love you back, but your union will look out for you.

Like 23 Jan 2023 at 1:15 | Open on mastodon.online

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Gregory P. Smith (he/him) :python: 🚲🦝 :donor:

@raph Has there been demonstrated evidence of AWU looking out for people in a high value way commensurate with their funding yet?

23 Jan 2023 at 1:36 | Open on infosec.exchange

Raph Levien

@gpshead I'm personally satisfied based on what I've seen (including providing communications channels and info for those affected), but I don't have enough direct information to make that case to a skeptic.

23 Jan 2023 at 1:53 | Open on mastodon.online

Merilee D. Karr, MD, MFA

@raph Raph, what do you think about these layoffs across the tech industry, by corporations that have not suffered a decline in profits?
As a historian, it looks to me like coordination to reduce the bargaining power of high-paid engineers, aka the rich taking the smart down a few notches.
Perfectly legal?

23 Jan 2023 at 6:30 | Open on federated.press

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