[jaltekruse]

I worked in a factory for a few months as a temp and a bunch of my co-workers that had been with the company for years had this exact thing happen to them, a few years after the 2008 crash. I believe it was a little different in that people were asked to take the change in their classification or leave, rather than being let go and then hired back separately. I know engineers that work outside of software that had to take mandatory unpaid time for the same reasons. I guess we just need to hope we end up with that "soft-ish" landing the Fed was talking about instead of a big recession or we're going to hear a lot more stories like this.

[preommr]

> end up with that "soft-ish" landing the Fed was talking about

That narrative died months ago.

At this point the odds of a recession are much higher than a 'soft-landing'.

[throwawaysoft]

Everyone beliving in soft landing all that matters. Economic fundamentals don't matter in this decade if you don't know.

[hinkley]

They didn’t matter last decade either, which is how 2008 happened.

[hinkley]

> mandatory unpaid time [off]

Furlough