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Layoff season (lemy.lol)
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[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 31 points 10 months ago (17 children)

Yeah… that’s probably sometimes true. But I also work in a tech company and holy fuck do we have a lot of dead weight.

[–] 000@fuck.markets 8 points 10 months ago

I'm in tech and there's a lot of dead weight in my company, but our layoffs don't really target those people. We just lost several of the best engineers in my department for stupid reasons (introducing a new c-suite position), and it caused problems immediately.

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