• ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
    131·
    3 hours ago

    My dad has been a server engineer for a single company for my entire life and he lived like this up until quite recently. His fear oscillates in magnitude with the success of the industry the company is a part of course so it isn’t always severe but I remember every few years as a kid I’d hear him and my mother murmering about lay offs. These days he just jokes about it being an early retirement

  • bruhbeans@lemmy.ml
    14·
    3 hours ago

    I got canned from my last job and thr way I found out was my work Gmail was locked out, fuckin class acts them.

    Getting fired from my current gig would be a relief tbh.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
    48·
    5 hours ago

    Don’t wait for a layoff, start organizing a union for that juicy ‘represented’ employment status (as opposed to at-will). Unions can’t stop layoffs, but they can minimize the impact, negotiate a higher severance, and provide advanced notice. I highly recommend the good folks at CODE-CWA, they specialize in organizing tech workers

    • Soup@lemmy.world
      21·
      4 hours ago

      “Why are my employees not respecting me? Why are they unproductive?”

      “Maybe treat them with a modicum of respect?”

      “Must be something in the water.”

  • essteeyou@lemmy.world
    8·
    4 hours ago

    I haven’t been laid off since April. I haven’t had a job since then though, so that’s not exactly ideal.

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
    311·
    5 hours ago

    My company has a 6 month probation period. It also has a 6 month password expiry. Because of all the SSO nonsense, it’s quite possible for it to lapse without warning.

    It’s now a running joke that get locked out on the last day of probation, and you’re expecting a call from HR any minute.

      • mkwt@lemmy.world
        58·
        5 hours ago

        Current IT best practice is that passwords should never expire on a set schedule, but they should expire if there is evidence they’ve been breached.

  • AbsentBird@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    3 hours ago

    Anyone else see the back of the chair as the person’s hair in the first two panels?

    • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 hour ago

      Yes, it wasn’t until the last panel did I notice the arms of the chair and suddenly the person was bald

  • SGG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    4 hours ago

    Upside: not fired.

    Downside: have to do work.

    Upside: make money

    Downside: not enough money

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    5 hours ago

    Don’t let that fear cow you into accepting marginal raises or career stagnation (assuming you’re not happy at your current level). Severance (outside the US) is usually generous enough to skate into your next opportunity and, tbh, working in constant fear is fucking awful for your mental health.

    • Meltrax@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 hours ago

      Ah but I love in the US, so I’ll just continue in constant fear. On the bright side, those marginal raises go towards the hilariously high cost of therapy.

    • Venator@lemmy.nz
      2·
      5 hours ago

      Would probably say in your contract if you have any sort of severance regardless of where you live? Or is there some sort of mandatory severance in some places?

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        5 hours ago

        In most of the developed world there is a mandatory level of severance (and companies can obviously exceed that if they want but the base amount is guaranteed). In BC it’s one week after three months (the probationary period) a second week after one year and then one additional week per year up to a maximum of eight weeks.

      • mkwt@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 hours ago

        Most places in the US will have nothing about severance written down anywhere, but it’s very common to actually pay severance in a mass layoff situation (unless the whole business is going under).

        • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 hours ago

          The US has the WARN Act, which requires 60 days’ notice or 60 days’ pay if at least 500 employees or 33% of the workplace are getting laid off (whichever is smaller). It’s a threadbare legal minimum on severance, but there is a minimum.

  • ch00f@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 hours ago

    At my last job, time they added or removed someone’s key card access, the system would reboot and everyone would be locked out for like two minutes.

    We also had two floors that were connected by a fire stairwell, so you needed a card to re-enter the next floor.

    At least twice my card stopped working in the middle of the word day while I was standing in the stairwell and I assumed that they just fired me and assumed I’d see my own way out.

    Survived three layoffs at that company.

    • SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 hours ago

      Way too stressful. I worked at a company that was bought by a hedge fund and they were always downsizing, even if it was key employees. It made me under perform and caused insomnia that I never quite got over and it was 11 years ago.