Ask HN: Where are laid off staff members collecting?

It simply struck me that a lot of individuals were laid off, we might begin the world’s biggest software application co-op (and probably among the biggest tech orgs, duration). We might construct software that every market requires, that every employee owns a part of and can vote on org-wide choices.

Literally everybody you require was laid off … Tech individuals, company individuals, marketing, sales, and so on. We simply require an online forum and some volunteers to arrange. All of us understand what items companies/individuals would spend for, since we utilized to build/buy them.

( there are great deals of various sort of co-ops, and I’m not recommending any specific design aside from an employee owned company where the employees own and manage the business)

I constantly assumed that this was the only method to take on Google and others. Even if you had 10 k engineers, heck 1000 engineers who did it, it would be a powerful force. In fact doing it. That’s the difficult part.

Yeah the trouble isn’t even thinking about an excellent concept, it’s rebuilding the huge legal barriers, federal government agreements, and relationships with personal capital that the existing tech business have actually sealed over years.

Related concern: are any real software application engineers getting laid off or is it simply support/admin/management who operate in the tech sector?

( I have actually been handling seeking advice from agreements for software application engineers recently, and was amazed to see that per hour rates are considerably greater than they were 5 years ago)

Blind [1] is a good neighborhood to get a glance into what workers really feel about companies, get recommendations and total tech profession recommendations. It can get rather hazardous and troll-ey sometimes, however you can filter that out to concentrate on the helpful things.

[1] – https://www.teamblind.com/

I get a comparable impression. The neighborhood is deeply unfavorable, and deeply negative about whatever. Everybody appears to just appreciate payment. It appears filled with the sort of individuals who put no effort in however who understand how to play the business video game enough to work out huge incomes, just to then groan about bad efficiency evaluations or getting laid off.

The closest thing to event I’ve seen is the consistency of publishing on LinkedIn with the #layoffs and #opentowork tags. I’ve likewise seen a good quantity of activity in the ex-Googler neighborhood where previous Google leaders (e.g. Laszlo Block, previous head of HR) host Zoom conversations about what life’s like on the outdoors and whatnot.

Here (Israel tech scene) there are a lots of efforts to assist individuals who were affected by the current layoffs. Great deals of mixers with business that are employing, totally free tutoring/help and meetups. Not best however it’s really far from “canine consume pet dog”.

Without reaching “canine consumes pet dog”, I do not understand if I would feel the requirement to fraternize laid off individuals if I got laid off. What would that serve? It’s not like among them is gon na resemble “hi, we’re employing at my business!”.

Socialize with individuals who work.

Other individuals laid off are looking and may discover something for you. They are searching for business actively employing.

People who work 1. do not have time throughout the day and 2. just learn about their business because they aren’t looking.

I would think that even if somebody had my precise skillset, I would be much better off coordinating with them in the search than preventing them. We might recognize more tasks and there is a likelihood among those is searching for more than a single person.

thanks. I keep in mind finding out about that in 2009:-RRB- There must/should to be something thats more open up to the countless individuals just recently pushed into the task market throughout numerous business?

They’re most likely either working a brand-new task, task searching, or vacationing. If I got laid off I ‘d most likely get a beer with a couple staff members or fellow ex workers. Perhaps get a couple numbers.. adios. Do not make it a larger thing than it requires to be.