#pessimism

I just don’t have the capacity to worry anymore. I don’t care about the date, I don’t care if I get to keep the job, and I don’t care about the state of the job market. If I work myself up to the point of being a basket case, I won’t be able to handle what’s coming anyway. And it’s not like this has been the best job ever, so losing it wouldn’t exactly be a life-defining tragedy.

Even getting through next week won’t calm me down. We all know there are more cuts coming. And, swear to God, months of job hunting have only made me more depressed. Fingers crossed and good luck to everyone. Whatever happens to each of us, here’s hoping something better waits for us on the other side of this sh-tshow.

it’s over my fellow coworkers. No matter what you do you can’t save your job. It’s all over.

Just saying. It's just my gut feel given the direction and how lost the execs are. Zero strategy, poor direction, poor execution. The executives are the ones who should be let go, not the worker.

I just hope no one still here is taking this place seriously anymore and that everyone’s looking hard for other options.

Difficult day today for us old P&I staffers....seems like our entire MGT team has been wiped out. Tammy's reign of fire is upon us. I'm gonna believe her heart is in the right place but I'm in the minority. The mess that Deb Thorpe created (why was she feted so much when she left???) has finally come to bite us in the a-s. I don't feel good about where we're heading, gang.

linkedin is fu--ing broken. msft bought it and the whole thing changed.

too many ghost jobs. they sit for months.

companies want free publicity, they dont lie about it. some post just to meet federal rules.

outsiders won’t get those roles.

the rest are fu--ing sketchy. resume scrapers and offshore shops, just stealing data. they want contacts and h1-b angles. applicants send hundreds of resumes. almost no replies.

it's all now just about ads, not doing matches and u dont stand a chance there.

drifted away.... soooo frustrated. nothing feels seperate from the grift.

fu-k them.

And it’s October. Historically layoffs have occurred in October. I think I’m toast.

Worst set of cuts I've seen in years, not looking good

And the stock is like 90% down in last 12 mo.

Avoid at all cost.

And it was not fun.

I am pretty sure what others think, they were running out of money.

And now it's obvious. Gotta be kidding... What a bad company

And what else can I say, things are just not good.

Period.

Is anyone else beyond f u c k e d off at this stage with this absolute clown show?

EOM

not worth competing with AI let us abandonIT tech careers and look else where for livelihood

I’m furiously looking for another job. I don’t think many of us will survive here over the next couple of months.

No Avaya press releases since July 28th, not much news coming out of a growing company.

They told us on video this was 100k per year for all the H1B Visa holders, or all 600K. Now its a 1 time fee of 100K for 3 years, its only for non us grads so like only 60K out of the 80K new H1B Visa's. Talk about a walk back, that's like only 1/10th of the original stated headcount. What a let down.

Run while you still have options.

I swipe in, do exactly what’s needed, and leave. Used to stay late, used to hustle, but not anymore. Every month the bare minimum gets a little lower because the company’s shown me they couldn't care less about us.

I think being laid off at this point wouldn't be such a bad thing, considering the current state of SF.

And we'll pay the price. What happened last week will look small compared to what’s coming, because everyone keeps throwing all their eggs into a basket that has yet to show any real results. There’s only so long you can get by on buzzwords and promises without anything to actually back it up.

Intel is now a government guided sh-t pile. Soon even the government will realize it is not worth keeping afloat.

When the acquisition of Albertsons fell through, I celebrated, because I thought we were saved from layoffs. We all knew it would be bad if the merger went through, but since it didn't, we were good. It's not so good to wake up one day and realize how stupid you've been.

I got comfortable during the good years, then just kept adapting as the crises piled up. Now I realize I’m completely fed up. And of course, it hits me at the worst possible time, when the options out there are practically nonexistent. I have no one to blame but myself for waiting this long, but that doesn’t make it any easier to swallow. It feels like I’ve wasted years hanging on, and now I’m stuck in a place that does me no good whatsoever, and will most likely only get worse. I’m just ranting here, but I suspect the vast majority of us feel the same.

Nope. It’s only made me feel more desperate. I’ve poured so much time and effort into the search, and I’m getting nothing back. Just crickets. What’s going on? I actually have a strong resume with specialized skills that are supposedly in demand, yet I haven’t been contacted once. If this is the reality, then we’re all totally sc--wed.

If you think it is, you're being incredibly naive. We'll get a month or two reprieve before more cuts are announced. And that's how it's going to be from now on. The writing's on the wall, people.

Get out while you can no one is safe atp

This company is going under, line something else up and leave before the ship sinks completely. The stock is at low $20s now as a hard ceiling. Pretty soon there will be nothing left. The company made the decision to bleed out its cash cows instead of grow and expand.

cancel your car bookigs, subscriptions, home bookings, tech folks are being cheated by govt and firms.
Prices jacked up to su-k all our pay and leave us vulnerable and exploitable.