[gizmo385]

> The company wants to try and make more money and one way is eliminating your job. Why is that so personal?

God forbid we expect people to be treated with a bit of dignity and given the opportunity to actually say goodbye to their friends and colleagues.

Millennials grew up being told over and over “be loyal to a company and they’ll treat you well” and have largely began their careers in an era where it’s clear companies couldn’t care less about employee loyalty once it comes anywhere close to negatively impacting their bottom line.

[minicoz]

I'm a millennial and I'm not naive enough to believe a company has my best interest at heart.

This is year 2 of rough layoffs in tech. anyone that didn't see January coming as layoff month is dumb.

[gizmo385]

I'm not saying that you should believe they do, but it's pretty common for companies to act like they do and given how common that kind of loyalty talk is, it doesn't surprise me that people do

[declan_roberts]

Unfortunately still a lot of people with nice cars and expensive rents and other consoomer waste who have been living like the good times will never end.