[insane_dreamer]

We've learned it because we've seen this movie many times over the past couple of years (the catalyst perhaps being Musk's decimation of Twitter): it's become acceptable -- and perhaps not only acceptable but expected -- to suddenly cut a significant percentage of your workforce in order to "drive growth", with some BS platitude (the details of which vary a bit but they all read pretty much the same).

It's not venom, it's an appropriate response by workers to the "shareholder-value-at-all-cost" race that the industry finds itself in; an industry that has prided itself, and often built companies on, values that are the opposite.

That, and the fact that CEOs have no accountability for these decisions.

[johnnyanmac]

I saw the venom the other way. People are losing their livlihoods and I see such dismissals as

- "You shoud have saved more money"

- "oh well you'll get a better job soon" (have not seen the job market the last 2 years)

- "They were probably low performing workers anyway, they deserve it"

- "It is what it is. Business is going to business"

- "The CEO's are just doing their job"

I hate it. We can't even come together as a community, which consists of many tech workers, to empathize with our peers. No wonder we can't rise up and bring about change from grassroots.