[NikolaNovak]

That's just... Not even remotely true in my neck of the woods.

Everywhere I worked at:

- if individual is not performing, people spend months trying to help them gear up before even considering laying them off

- if large layoffs are happening, there's time and severance. Even the ones we see in the news and perceived as sudden and unfair, the notification may be unexpected, but you're rarely laid off effective tomorrow.

[Apocryphon]

Wrong on the large layoffs point. Plenty of them occurred with no warning this year. And often with little to no justification, not only to the individuals let go but even simply from a business rationale.

[lsaferite]

Them:

> in my neck of the woods.

> Everywhere I worked at

You:

> Wrong

How can you tell them they are wrong in _their_ experiences?

[Apocryphon]

Because their experiences are not reflective of larger industry trends.

[lsaferite]

They didn't claim their experience was universal. They explicitly qualified their statement. So, you said they were wrong in _their_ experiences, which is calling them a liar and a bad interaction overall. If you'd simply replied that their experience perhaps wasn't indicative of the industry as a whole, _then_ you would have contributed something meaningful to the conversation.

[gymbeaux]

There's one's own experience, and then there's empirical data. Your comment isn't adding any value to this discussion because it's just one in a sea of hundreds of millions.

Hell what about that mortgage company where people found out they were laid off because they couldn't log in to their fucking laptops?

[fragmede]

Mortgage company? Shit, that's how some people at Google found out they were laid off.