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What decision did Musk get wrong? Politics aside, Twitter is running fine with 50%+ fewer employees. Seems more impressive than anything else.
They get 2 months + 16 weeks + 1 week for every year they worked there + all the other stuff
They’re literally getting like 6-10 months of salaries, probably can start looking for a job right away. Unless it was somebody’s one and only dream to work at a specific tech company their whole life they’ll honestly be better off getting fired >

This isn’t true. If you are lucky enough to get a new job before the severance ends, you get paid from both. >

These links aren't to a single severance agreement offered.so I have a hard time buying that CNN and friends are providing the facts that are individual to each company and the individual being laid off. >

I literally collected full severance and worked a new job at the same time making more than the previous one in 2021. So I say CNN and friends is full of crap too >

Yeah I'll definitely believe anecdotal evidence presented by a random internet person over a law firm, employment website and journalists. >

And yet none of those things are anyone individual severance contracts.....are they....? >

Been laid off twice so far in my life. It suuuuucks, but my life continued.  I found new and better positions.  If they were worth the job they were doing, then they will find new work and excel in life.  If they sucked at their job and deserved the layoff, then they might not bounce back as well.  Either way the ball is in their court, crying about it on social media is a bad look. >

The thing with this tech layoffs is that the majority of people who are being fired nowadays actually do not come from IT backgrounds, but from Human Resources, Management, Recruitment... Roles whose purpose is to recruit as cheap as possible and keep the staff minimally happy with their job conditions. And if there is no recruitment to be made + less risk of your employees to sign off due to the economic environment, these roles are easily disposable.
In contrast to other roles, these people live inside LinkedIn and any other platforms where you can "brag" about your job career and your sucess, and thus it has been quite ironic to see all these tiktokers and other "job influencers" being laid off. And if you add that basically no one really knows what they actually do as their day by day work... you get this response. >

The weird thing about tech companies in my experience is that the techies are a minority and even they have groups within groups. 
You get a few core people who know stuff. Like, really know how it’s put together in the 237th combo out of a possible 600 combinations and why it must be that combination. 
Then you get grunts like me who hack stuff. We’re pretty disposable. 
Then you get non-techies who manage and organise. Very disposable. 
Those groups can have very different outcomes in a contraction, but sometimes accountants (or owners….looking at you, Mr Musk) make hasty decisions and get them wrong.