Comment by emodendroket
1 year ago
I'm not convinced demoralization is undesired in all cases; certainly it seems like there was a lot of frustration about workers demanding more pay, remote work, stances on various social/political issues, and so on. Making people demoralized and afraid of losing their jobs is one possible answer to that.
Theoretically you have a point. On the other hand it’s so bad for recruiting. I view companies that do large layoffs the same way I view companies that do a lot of contract hiring. You clearly don’t care about employees and their wellbeing.
Be real, it’s google. They could layoff 10k every month for another year and still have people lining up from around the world to get in
Google was so impactful in redefining work environment in the 2000s that people have now a very hard time getting over them being now just another old school big corporation. I remember in the early 2010s the aura Google had here on HN was crazy, I guess 10 years are still not enough to destroy that image.
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Seems like direct path to becoming IBM to be honest
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Be real - those kind of people aren’t worth hiring!
They haven't been able to hire talent in over a decade. The only "talent" that ever considers working there is kids fresh out of school.
Once it's a woke shithole no one important will work there. You can fleece them for money but no one capable of material contribution goes to google.
Consider what was their last usable innovation? Making their web email client less usable? A third-rate cloud service? They don't even have a usable quantum computer; just a toy. Their flagship product is a pay-to-censured search engine. It's a giant company of assholes.
If it's localized to one company it is but that's the beauty of a sector-wide slowdown... where are they going to go instead?
Maybe we can see this as a positive, if it gets bad enough, the people coming into tech from the bootcamps who just did it for the money might move onto other fields.
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TF? since when do corporations give a shit about you?
t. Jerome Powell and Julie Su
Well for sure, but it also helps make sense of why you'd see tech executives clamoring for something to be done about inflation even as they were clearly benefiting from the inflationary environment in some sense.
“The beatings will continue until morale improves”