Honest Thoughts About Tech Layoffs

Nothing says good company culture like layoffs. I’m surprised that hasn’t appeared in a chart next to the word “innovation”. Nothing is worse than getting laid off. Individuals will experience a wide variety of feelings like wondering what went wrong, imposter syndrome, and figuring out what to do next. As someone who’s had friends and family laid off before, I can’t imagine the toll it takes on you emotionally.

That being said, I felt obligated to go on a rant. Nothing like brain broken lunatics on Medium and LinkedIn talking about how companies handled layoffs well. Shut the fuck up. I’m tired of “things were handled well” or “corporation X did above industry standard”. No, that’s an awful way to look at layoffs. I look at like this, “oh great another billionaire destroyed the lives of thousands”.

Executives blatantly disregarded the worst case scenario and favored short term profits over long term growth. If that’s “handling it well” because they gave a better severance package than the next scumbag, maybe I’m just an asshole. Most of these companies just answered to shareholders. Not the workers who actually make them money.

Layoffs don’t generate profits long term.

Read that again and I want to see if I anyone can figure it out. After laying off people to cut costs, naturally problems begin to arise after 6–12 months that weren’t occurring before. Said problems can be solved, by hiring people for nearly identical roles that were originally filled. Back to the interviewing cycle again, take the money and light it on fire instead. Oh, things are good again, let’s get back on those initiatives, start hiring again, don’t pass go and don’t collect $200. See the problem? All the time spent hiring, training, onboarding and bringing people up to speed instead of holding onto them and accepting losses for the executives would have prevented this. However, the United States runs on the genius principle of non-stop growth at all costs. The same genius principle that makes people skip going to the hospital until a medical disaster occurs because insurance is privatized. Every…

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