Just got terminated today. Both myself(server admin and network administrator) and the lead developer. Me (7 years with the company) , the lead developer 10 years with the company. Started both of us to get access revoked emails in various systems. Then followed up with a call from the CEO.

What bothers is not why i got terminated, because i do understand that from a business perspective but still it sort of hurts to part ways. We were both replaced with the Anthropic subscription, and the CEO seems to want the business head over the fully AI mode... finance is scheduled for next week, so that dept is also going to be affected.

Call was pretty straight forward, we are doing major budget cuts. - was the theme.

Yeah...i knew it was coming ...the writting was on the wall. But yeah... time to look for something else.

Edit : typos. Sorry for the bad grammar.

Update 1: thank you all for the kind words.

Update 2: to give some context , this company is located in Australia. Both myself and lead developer were offshore resources. (There were no plans to hire local, there no plans to hire different people that we know off)

Update 3: I woke up with a list of following up questions from the CEO asking which is server A and which is server B (monitoring and backup) although everything is documented.

There is no will to reply to this follow up. I considered to quote a 3 hours invoice and send it up. But I dont even want to work for them any longer.

I cant believe this shit any more...

just accepted the job offer of my dreams. It was great, paid $38/hr full benefits! The work is a combination of physical and technical, and the cherry on the top was it was good MORAL work. I would have been working with private landowners to plant trees on their property, giving them timber harvesting power in the future plus fortifying the American timber trade instead of outsourcing for wood. Not to mention improving the local environment.

The thing is I'd be working with a non-profit and my position is funded by federal grants.

My job acceptance almost feel through with one executive order but I got lucky until Elon fucking MUSK commandeered the treasury payment system so there are effectively no resources to hire me. He took my job.

It's fucking heartbreaking. In 2 years I could have paid off my student loans and had a down payment for a house if I had saved like mad. Now I'm stuck making $20,000 a year living paycheck to paycheck. And I don't think anybody understands what an opportunity like this is for some poor kid who grew up in a rotten trailer in Appalachia to have had. Fuck.

Can someone help me make sense of this?

Meta, worth $1.82 trillion with a stock price of $719.80, just cut 3,600 people with nothing but a cold, soulless email and it’s got me reflecting.

I’ve been laid off before, so I know the gut punch. My heart goes out to the 3,600 people caught in Meta’s latest purge.

Let this be a reminder: No company is your family. No matter how loyal you are, they can drop you tomorrow without a second thought.

So, take your damn vacations. Burn through that PTO. If your kids are sick, be there. Stop checking emails after hours and on weekends. Because no matter how hard you grind or how dedicated you are, these companies aren’t loyal to you.

Meta just axed thousands of people—was that really necessary? Corporate America has zero loyalty. You’re just a number, easily replaced and forgotten.

Here’s the truth: Real job security is the one you create. Stop giving your nights and weekends to a company that would drop you in a heartbeat. Build your own thing—a side hustle, investments, whatever keeps you in control.

Because when Plan A disappears, you better have a Plan B.

I’ve been crying so much over this. I genuinely can’t believe how heartless some people can be…

I (24m) have applied to 94 jobs in the past 5 months which has resulted in exactly 3 interviews. I am always polite and respectful, maintain great hygiene/grooming, and show reliability when interviewing/working a job. A good portion of them are in food service because thats where I have experience, but I’ve also been applying for retail, warehouse and delivery jobs. They are all entry level positions. Then I finally get this job a week ago and thought it was my saving grace. Owner had me work two days, both shifts I showed up 5 mins early and stayed as late as they needed me, kept my breaks at exactly 10 minutes both days, and performed well for my first two days on the new job. They complemented my ability to pick everything up so quickly and even said they think I fit in with the rest of the team very well. Then yesterday I texted them to ask when they wanted me to come in next, as you can see in the image above. And then their response. I went to pick up my check today and they had given it to the cashier to give to me while they stayed in the back of the restaurant. When I looked at the paystub, they kept $30 as a “uniform deposit”😕 I’m feeling really defeated about this, but it wasn’t a super busy place compared to previous restaurants I’ve worked in, so I can sympathize if they really are tight on money right now. It just sucks that I’m back to the job search😔 I’ve been living off of odd jobs/favors for family and friends for almost six months, I’m exhausted, and they are too.

TLDR: got hired by the owner of a restaurant a week ago, got laid off today because they can’t afford to add another employee on payroll.

Guys, I am absolutely freaking out right now, and I had to share. So, here's the deal:

The last couple of months at my company have been rough – a ton of layoffs, and I was just waiting for the other shoe to drop. I had this sinking feeling I might be next, so I started job hunting in January (safety net, right?). Fast forward to last Friday, and I land this AMAZING job offer. Great pay, better benefits, the whole shebang. I was stoked, it felt like such a perfect fit, and I was already planning to resign today.

But guess what just happened? My SVP called me just now. The conversation went something like this: "Tough decision, but we're having to let you go, and we want to part on good terms." And to add a little salt (or should I say sugar?) to the wound, they’re offering me five months severance pay.

I’m literally screaming in excitement because not only did I dodge a bullet with the layoffs, but now I’ve got an even better opportunity lined up. It’s like the universe had my back!

So yeah, I'm still processing all this, but I just wanted to share this wild, unexpected turn of events with you all. It’s crazy how things work out sometimes.

Here's to new beginnings!

two hours ago i got a phone call from HR, two hours after the work day was over. today was my last day as they’re doing budget cuts and my position was eliminated.

absolute gut punch that phone call was. i had finally found a job that i absolutely loved and cared so much about. i fought so hard for this position when i was interviewing and gave it my all.

they won’t even let me come back to my office to get my things.

edit: just got a text from my boss, he was let go too.

Saw this on LinkedIn just now. An employee of Crunchyroll (an anime streaming service) requested an ADA accommodation as he was taking care of his mother, and was met with hostility from management, HR and leadership, Eventually gets fired after calling into question company values after said treatment. Gets cursed out and flipped off by a manager along the way. Crunchyroll offered him severance in exchange for silence. He rejected it and went public. Screenshot didn't capture the entire post, so here's the link to the post for added visibility that OP deserves.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shawnkhoffman_lifeatcrunchyroll-techcareers-inclusion-activity-7293573975614337024-ju5d

Back in July of this year, I got let go off from my job at a locally owned dinner due to "budget cuts." I worked at this diner for about 4 1/2 years and did a lot for the company, such as covering my coworkers shifts when needed, buying little extras like decorations, feminine products for the bathrooms, and the occasional sweet treat for my coworkers in our break room. I also got many compliments and good tips from customers. So I was taken a back when I was let go of back in July because I considered myself an excellent employee. I was out of a job for about four months until I was hired at the Chick-fil-A a few blocks down from me, I was basically hired on the spot because the owner remembered me from the diner I worked at and he liked my work ethic and personality.

I really like it so far because I make more (I went from making $16.50 an hour to $20 an hour), it's closer to my house and school, it offers better benefits (medical, dental, and vision insurance, two weeks paid vacation, paid sick days, flexible hours, and money towards our 401k), and finally, my coworkers are more my age and easier to get along with. Anyways... enough of that, the other day, I received a call from my old boss asking me if I would like to come back because they could really use my help. Apparently, Thanksgiving week was a disaster because they didn't have enough people on to handle the crowds. I do not want to go back because I had little help and would often stay hours after closing fixing up around the diner.

What should I do? How should I respond in a professional tone to not sound spiteful?

Next week was going to be my one-year anniversary at the company, so I wasn’t with them for a super long time or anything. The economy obviously isn’t stupendous right now and the industry my company is in is especially suffering, so it isn’t really all that surprising in retrospect, but it still came as a shock considering we had no semblance of a heads up. My supervisor didn’t even know. She was also let go.

I was kind of hoping to avoid the job hunt for longer than a year, but at least it means I’m not completely out of practice yet. I know the job market is pretty grim at the moment. Just gotta keep my head up and grind. I’m gonna take today to process, and then tomorrow, I’ll start updating my resume and my website and put my LinkedIn spelunking gloves on.

It only happened about two hours ago, so I guess I just wanted to tell someone.

TX, USA

About a month ago I began to work at the new local coffee shop. After a couple of shifts studying a packet, I began training in the kitchen... that was 3 weeks ago. I and most of my coworkers are baristas.

The tip pool consists of everyone pooling 100% of our money to be divided amongst all baristas every hour... except I was never paid out. They insisted that I was not trained enough, although they did trust me to work independently.

This thing about me receiving many tips over the past several weeks, but only being allowed to keep a cumulative $0.00, may or may not be illegal, please lmk if it is.

What they did that is absolutely illegal is allowing all of my managers to be paid out by the tip pool, often at my expense. After I brought this concern to my manager's attention this past Sunday, the owner personally called me to yell at me on the phone and inform me that everything that he's doing is perfectly legal.

Today was my first shift where I wasn't being "shadowed," which is a practice that essentially consists of me doing all the work while a coworker watches me and then takes all of my tips. I ask one manager, "Since I'm working independently, this means I'm tipped out now?" She says, "No, just because you are working on your own doesn't mean you can participate in the tip pool. The owner and I will decide when you get to have tips."

Tbh I do have a bit of an attitude about it and I shrugged and said I don't understand why I can't have any tips that we all earn together. But I quickly drop the issue and continue working, even when everyone else ain't doing jack but chit chatting.

About an hour before I'm scheduled to leave, I am called into the office. The owner of the company is on the phone and two managers are present. They inform me that due to my "Unprofessional Body Language, Tardy, and unprofessional behavior towards management regarding the tip-pool operation," that I am fired, effective immediately. I was late for the first time today, by 6 minutes.

Am I overreacting? Like, I feel like I was retaliated against because I asserted my rights as a worker. Am I tripping?

Started working for this staging company a few months ago and like any other company they should provide training. I was there’s for 3 months+ with no training I had to figure it out by myself ( what to do ,how to pack, how to unpack, where to put things back) I had no experience with staging but they were hiring people including those who didn’t have experience. Fast forward, the manager who was in charge of me owed me money and everything was fine till I asked for that money. I asked for the money and he got so passionate aggressive saying I was lazy and that I put no effort with the company where I never had training. I did everything I could with no training(always on time, clean , organized and hard worker). We had a long conversation before I got that text on how I called the company not professional because they never provided training. They agreed with me on providing training asap and fired me the following weekend. The manager was a felon who loved bootlicking the owners boots and they didn’t like how I stoop up for myself. Ex one day the owner wanted me to get the trash from their house because the trash people were going to get it the next week and the bins were full. The other thing is the manager encouraged me to not take a lunch to get things done quicker because he didn’t take lunches. He also didn’t want to give me my PTO hours before they fired me. Shady company

As I said in the title, my parents make websites for their jobs. They did this job for almost their entire adulthood, for more than 20 years.

But since last year they’ve been saying that their works are decreasing. I can feel it too. They used to stay up late doing works when I was younger, but nowadays, they usually finishes their work just at 5 p.m. or just no work for an entire day or two. (They don’t work for a company;they’re self-employed, so they work at home)

I’m so worried. Mom often says we don’t have money, and yesterday she even joked we’re gonna starving soon because they don’t have much works to do nowadays. Seeing my dad doesn’t do any work since Sunday made me more nervous.. I’m only 15 and my brother is 13. I’m just so concerned (maybe I’m overthinking, I know this problem is for adults and my parents are going to handle it somehow well, but I’m still worried)

Any advices or reassurance are appreciated!!

(This is not really about layoffs, but I didn’t know where to post)

Hi, I need help figuring out how I go about filing a wrongful termination against a small business I worked for. My now old job consists of 5 employees, including me. One of which is the owner and the other is the manager. I was fired on January 14th and was given no exact reason for my termination but I can give the story and context of what happened before this.

I made the joke to my manager that I had the immune system of a Victorian child. She took it seriously and told me that she discussed it with my boss and I would have to get medical clearance from an immunologist to prove I don’t have “Victorian child immune syndrome” (which btw I asked two medical professionals in my family and did my own research and this medical condition doesn’t exist). Upon realizing they took it seriously, I explained that it was a joke and apologized for the misunderstanding. While also explaining I didn’t even know such a condition exists (it doesn’t) and that I say the joke bc my family says it to me all the time. My manager then doubled down and said that regardless if it was a joke or not, they have no proof I don’t have a disease or “the condition” and that they’d still need clearance. I then asked for paperwork that stated what I needed to be seen for, why, what policy they were using to say I had to get this done and if they were keeping me from working. My manager then said they would contact TWC on what to do if an employee says they have an infectious disease that could affect the public health in a medical care clinic. (Again I didn’t say I had a disease and it doesn’t exist) I came the next day to get my check and was given a letter saying that according to the TWC I am now fired bc of my prior statement.

I’ve filed for unemployment, I’ve talked to EEOC and they can’t help me bc my job is less than 15 people and the dept. of labor sent me back to the EEOC. What do I do? Do I need to get an attorney?

The C-Suites started the call with a VERY brief note that they had to lay off a ton of employees in another department, and that today was a day of “raw emotion.” And then, I shit you not, they immediately went into “let’s not let this stop us from having an extremely profitable Q4, get out there and sell!”

This is why I refuse to work past 5. This is why I don’t attend company events outside of work hours. This is why I don’t take work stress home with me.

You are a number. You are replaceable. They don’t care about you. Do not give unto them what they refuse to give to you. Know your worth. Show no loyalty to a company.

I really feel for those that lost their jobs today, because they have families. They’re people, they have lives. They matter. Our company has made record profits the last few years, completely on the backs of those laid off.

I’m just disgusted.

EDIT: my company’s FY starts 4/1 for some reason. So Q4 ends 3/31.

My company was recently acquired by a private equity firm, and I’m trying to figure out what this might mean for my job security.

Recently, my manager told me to “not sell my house.” I can’t stop thinking about it. I don’t know whether it was just spontaneous advice or whether she knows something about the company’s future that I don’t.

There are a few things that make me particularly nervous. I feel that my salary is somewhat higher than that of some of my colleagues, which makes me worry that I could be seen as an easy target if the new owners start looking for ways to cut costs.

On top of that, I only relocated to this city quite recently, and it wasn’t entirely by choice — I was forced to move here for work. I’m still trying to settle in and build some stability after the move, so the thought of potentially losing my job so soon is really frightening.

My husband is now planning to move to the city to join me, and he would be leaving his current job to do so. If I lost my job and he struggled to find a new one, we could both end up unemployed in a city where we’ve only recently established ourselves. That would put us in a very vulnerable financial position.

The timing of my manager’s comment, combined with the private equity acquisition, has left me wondering whether she was indirectly warning me about something. Maybe she knows there are plans for restructuring or layoffs, or maybe I’m reading too much into a casual remark. I honestly have no way of knowing.

I’m feeling quite stressed and scared because so much is uncertain, and I don’t know how to make sensible decisions without knowing what might be coming.

For those who have been through a private equity acquisition:

- Have you ever had a manager give you subtle hints about upcoming layoffs or restructuring before anything was officially announced?
- Would you read anything into a comment like “don’t sell your house” in this situation?
- If your salary was somewhat higher than your colleagues’, would you be concerned about being targeted for cost-cutting?
-What would you do in my position, especially with my husband about to give up his job and relocate to join me?

I know nobody can predict the future, but I’d really appreciate hearing from people who have experienced something similar. I’m trying to prepare for the worst without letting anxiety take over when I don’t actually know what the comment meant.

I started the job 3 months ago in a very high performing role. They took 6 months to fill the role and put me through a gauntlet to get it. They also have never laid anyone off and rarely fire poeple unless you are a complete train wreck.

Its a very cold environment and I've had multiple layoffs in my 20s so I'm paranoid everyday I'm getting let go.

I'm moving to a new place so I randomly went on ADP to download my previous paystubs and I noticed that I am being issued a paycheck tomorrow that shows my monthly pay period from the March 1-March 11 and getting a personal portion (most likely PTO) as well. Usually we are paid on 15th and EOMonth and the pay period will say February 1-15 and February 16-28 for example.

I called our ops manager and he said no idea I'll take a look and look into it, I'm not sure is it a bonus. Normally he says send it to me and I'll look into it.

Also I did not receive any emails from anyone today, jsut random company wide emails.

I set up monthly review with my boss (I set them up to make sure I'm on track) and tomorrow is my review.

Is tomorrow my last day?

I took me over a year to find this role after previous lay off and I don't wanna go through what I went through again.

Update: I showed up and everyone ignored me so after the morning meeting, I walked into my bosses office closed the door and said let's get this over with and basically figured it was political based on the final convo because one of the partners had an issue with me but no one else did. The ops manger giving me a hug and saying sorry man you were awesome basically confirmed it. Then I went straight to course played golf and shot a 75.

If anyone thinks im full of shit I'll take a video of my golf swing and post in here.

Back to finding a job in this shitty market.

Thanks all.

There have been plenty of times where we have had a "low fire, low hire" market. Take the aftermath of the great recession, it was a low fire, low hire environment from 2009-2014. A half of decade of that. However, the difference is that the unemployment rate was much higher due to the 2008 recession.

What makes this 2020s expansion strange is that unemployment rate collapsed after 2020 and peaked in 2023, but has remained low fire low hire with only slight increases in unemployment since. It begs the question how much the gig economy has replaced unemployment. We really need jobs to either come back or we need to have a mild recession. We can't stay in limbo with a low unemployment rate forever.

I (58M) scroll this sub every day.

I know there are lots of peoplee closer to my age facing serious challenges. I feel for you. But this post is for the younger folks.

This sucks. Don't let any old fart like me tell you it's normal, or you "just don't work hard enough". That's pure horseshit.

When I graduated from college in 1990 jobs were plentiful. I sent one resume and got a job in the industry I just retired from. I made 3 typos on the application. They pointed them out on the interview and still hired me.

I'm not suggesting people my age haven't worked hard or haven't earned what they have. But I do think we might tend to understate circumstances that made it easier.

So, I don't have solutions. I'm sorry I can't help. But just know some of us at least empathize. ✊

I was just laid off after 25 years today. I don’t know what to do, or where to go. Please tell me I am not alone, and you guys can share some encouragement or advice.

At what point will the government declare a recession? Sure, there are other factors beyond just the job reports...oh wait, what reports? We're in a shutdown on top of all this.

Wild, Wild Year!

I've worked at this very small start up for the past 3 years. It only had about 3 employees and my boss. I sit directly in front of my boss and she became like an older sister. I automated a lot of my responsibilities over time and now the work is pretty simple. I just key in different variables every now and then and my task is complete. Over the past year, my boss had been asking me questions about how I did that and she wanted to learn to do it herself. We were so friendly, I didn't think much of it and gladly taught her everything I knew. She sat me down this morning and told me she needed to let me go to cut down on costs and that she would be absorbing my role. She did ask if I'd be willing to do a once a year "consulting gig" at the end of each year to double check her work. I didn't know what to say. She said it very gently and nicely, so I matched her energy, but now I feel like an idiot and am out a job.