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by mooreds 866 days ago
I had less and less to do. The company had pivoted, still had no revenue, and my job function was less necessary.

I was hunting for work within in the org, but was remote so was operating at a disadvantage. I would ask the product manager for work, then do it (typically an integration and documentation) then ask for more.

It got to the point where my manager asked me to stop bugging the product manager.

I felt a vague disquiet, but having never been laid off before, didn't quite recognize what was coming.

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Some of the indicators I've seen repeating are:

> I had less and less to do. me, or the team, or the team next to us.. when people would go from 'busy' to 'got nothing to do 4h per day for the past month'.

I also noticed that companies start to cut down on seemingly unnoticeable stuff, (laugh if you want) quality of choices of coffee go down, quality of hand soap, toilet paper, napkins is degraded/replaced, ordering notepads takes 1 more signature and 2 more weeks, and other small pet peeves that suddenly appear.