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by rvz 41 days ago
> “This is as anxious and stressed as I have ever been at a job,” a longtime employee at Meta tells The Standard.

The music has stopped and is now leaving people playing the musical chairs game without a chair (job) to sit on as the companies are literally taking away the chairs.

Reminds me of 2008, and 2000 but this time the 'new jobs' are not there and the game is global and affects every knowledge worker and it doesn't matter if you're "senior", "junior" or "staff" or whatever.

Nothing lasts forever. Better build something instead of expecting employers for free lunch and daycare-like benefits.

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>Reminds me of 2008, and 2000 but this time the 'new jobs' are not there and the game is global and affects every knowledge worker and it doesn't matter if you're "senior", "junior" or "staff" or whatever.

So like 2000 and 2008 if you worked in heavy industry.

> So like 2000 and 2008 if you worked in heavy industry.

Ouch. Great point.

Internet Doomsday Evangelist seems to be a role with infinite chairs.