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by over_bridge 1316 days ago
Pass single payer healthcare so that being fired isn't a potentially life or death scenario and there may be some merit to your comment.

If people are safe whether employed or not then by all means fire at will. It's rude but not morally bankrupt in that case.
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trashdigitalnom 1316 days ago
Life happens. And no being fired is not life and death scenario. If you want healthcare you need to find other work. If you can’t find other work then move to other places. If you can’t move to other places then you need to question what made you got into this hole of dependence to your employer from the first place.

If you are skillfull and bring value to your employer why would the fire you and why would other employer won’t want you?

Layoffs are great. They weed out the unproductive ones.

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infamia 1315 days ago
> Layoffs are great. They weed out the unproductive ones.

The vast majority of most layoffs I've seen are either hastily thrown together hail marys or just done looking at how much money they need to cut and then look more or less 100% at compensation or something even more stupid. For companies of any considerable size, rare is the strategic layoff. What Elon did at Twitter is a perfect example of slashing for a number. Elon has not been around long enough to understand what's up or down at Twitter. He has a number in mind he wants to get down to and he just slashes until he gets there. Assuming there are substantial cuts that need to be made, Elon has no clue where he is slashing fat vs. bone, he hasn't been there long enough to know.

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slenk 1315 days ago
Obviously you've never lived paycheck to paycheck. If you don't have a job you can't afford to move - hell, if you have a minimum wage job you can't just afford to move.

Most places at least require a hefty sum of rent up front to even get in somewhere else.

Then if you don't have a job, at least in the US, they recommend you get COBRA, so you don't have any gaps in your health insurance record. Because they decided that was bad. And COBRA is _expensive_. Again, not something you can afford if you are living paycheck to paycheck.

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