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The thing about #tech #layoffs that people who haven’t been through it often don’t understand is that morale never recovers. The employees who remain will never have the same relationship with that company, bosses or peers.
Watching people you respect pack their stuff and crying on the phone with their spouses is something that never goes away. When I survived a layoff in my 20s I became a “do exactly what the ticket says” person. I stopped suggesting ideas, providing feedback, believing anything a manager told me.
If you are a company considering layoffs, especially a profitable company, you should approach it as “this department will have 100% turnover”. The second I got another job offer I left that company and six months later nobody who had been there at the time of layoffs remained.
I’ve seen that pattern play out multiple times.
The thing about #tech #layoffs that people who haven’t been through it often don’t understand is that morale never recovers. The employees who remain will never have the same relationship with that company, bosses or peers.
Watching people you respect pack their stuff and crying on the phone with their spouses is something that never goes away. When I survived a layoff in my 20s I became a “do exactly what the ticket says” person. I stopped suggesting ideas, providing feedback, believing anything a manager told me.
@matdevdug I had my first layoff in the late 80s and the second in 92. My slightly more senior skill equal was laid off and sought a new job. Morale ruined I took one of the jobs he discarded and quit. Later I came back there to work with an older mentor, but suffered two layoffs, with a year and a half of sort of a limbo in the later position. Tired of being a connoisseur of layoffs, I resolved to never return to #Tektronix again. They had given me great experience and I had outgrown them.
@matdevdug You know it's bad when even the senior managers who are instructed to let go of entire teams leave within 6 months of the layoff round.
@matdevdug yep, so true it hurts