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by Esophagus4 32 days ago
> So what I suspect I’ll feel if I get laid off is an immediate flood of relief and happiness, very quickly followed by the sinking realization that I’m in financial trouble, because I don’t know how long it will take to land another job. Six months should be enough — a couple of years ago, it would’ve been.

If you’re looking for a job with similar pay, sure.

But if you’re willing to accept that maybe you were making over market and your next job will be more of a paycheck reality check, then it should be easier to find work.
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happytoexplain 32 days ago
Meta's morality aside, it's so strange seeing bitterness about software salaries on HN - very crabs-in-a-pot. Especially considering that the vast, vast majority of software jobs don't enable a life of luxury due to differences in COL.

Instead of insisting that more businesses should share enough profit to enable more people to live the Little American Dream (have a small home, small family, somewhere reasonably nice), we say the opposite, "No. People currently achieving that need to give it up." The bar is so low that this is what counts as "spoiled".

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Esophagus4 31 days ago
You’re making this about a lot more than my comment.
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lisper 31 days ago
Check your interlocutor's user name and it will make more sense.
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happytoexplain 31 days ago
I had picked that name just wanting a polite, harmless phrase - and then I realized it could have a negative connotation of being a know-it-all (I'm probably in the bottom 5% of "knowing things" among HN users), exacerbated by the rise of complaints about "mansplaining". Oh well.
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TrnsltLife 30 days ago
"mansplaining" is an attack by toxic femininity on the normative state of affairs that men like talking about facts and the physical world and how things work. It's just another instance of womanplaining (from "complaining") and name calling, really, and "oh well" is probably a pretty good response.

Just thinking about it some more, maybe "womplaining" is pithier and has a better ring to it.

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happytoexplain 31 days ago
Yes, I'm commenting on a trend that I believed your comment was a part of based on your implications (implying something like "maybe you don't deserve what you've been getting"; and downplaying the impact of loss of income). Sorry if I'm wrong.
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