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Any one received thier severance payment from the recent RIFs?

The layoffs, which were first reported by Crain’s New York, were disclosed in a filing with the New York State Department of Labor. In total, 660 employees are being laid off by Amazon across nine offices in New York City.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/11/11/amazon-nyc-layoffs-restructuring-november-2025/87221740007/

And now they're trying to memory hole the RA with positive news.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6385004810112

So far only one person I know of, but we already lost a team member this quarter and may have been spared because of that.

I knew they were doing the Global Tech layoffs in EMEA last week, but a friend of mine just got let go here on campus- Legal Privacy office. Any other groups impacted last week?

http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/07/Red_Hat_is_Also_Laying_Off_Staff_in_India.shtml

https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/ibm-to-cut-2-700-jobs-as-experts-warn-more-tech-layoffs-loom-this-year-article-13656587.html

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If all of us do it, will they fire us all? Ai isn't ready yet and H1B's will have to be trained to do the role. In the mean, we could get a union to negotiate? Sign up and let’s all walk on Monday 11/10/25! - https://www.joinifpte.org/tech

Any updates from the Tech AMA in St. Louis on the 6th?

Working for this company is absolute he-l. When working in tech you are still expected to sell sell sell. 99% of our continued training is nothing but sales soft skills. The only thing this company cares about is "adding phone lines" if someone has already been escalated up to multiple levels of tech support they don't want to hear about plans or perks or upgrades. The amount of work they expect agents to be able to do is completely outside of reality. There are so many service related issues that can not be resolved by anyone.

• Tech layoffs in the Bay Area continue, with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hitachi Vantara, and Cepheid announcing new job cuts.
• HPE is cutting 52 positions in San Jose, mainly in cloud development, engineering, and product management, following a global plan to reduce 2,500 jobs.
• Hitachi Vantara will permanently eliminate 128 jobs in Santa Clara starting December 31, affecting software engineering, marketing, and customer support.
• Cepheid is reducing 34 positions in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties as COVID-19 test demand declines and operations move to Lodi.
• These cuts add to a growing list of tech layoffs in 2025, joining recent reductions from Amazon, Meta, Applied Materials, and Google.

  https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/layoffs-hpe-hitachi-vantara-21140900.php

Tech support US here.

It seems like we’re seeing a shift in staffing with more roles being filled by people from India. I can’t help but wonder why Dell doesn't consider hiring more people from the US when there are so many qualified candidates ready and willing to work. We’re being told to take ethics courses, which honestly feel more like a chore, yet it seems like the company itself is falling short of its own ethical standards.

It’s clear that the company is gradually moving its US operations overseas, and it’s disheartening to see how this has unfolded. First, we saw changes to our healthcare benefits, and now it feels like the focus is on cheap labor at the expense of loyal workers. It’s tough to continue supporting a company that seems to be disregarding its employees in favor of cost-cutting measures. This needs to be stop.

Will AT&T compete to this extent before the end of the year?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/business/amazon-layoffs

I’m wishing the new tech team all the best, man. It was about time we got some fresh tech and ki-led it at what we do. I’m stoked for our company and hoping for more wins.

Been out with our hr guy who normally is very quiet, yet he said about planned layoffs in our region, he said something 30-50 ppl, mostly from tech part. Can't confirm, but he said that he himself was not hired for such a role, but... you know.
So seams that even Dubai and Riyadh - our cash cow region centres are not immune.

Do we think tomorrow’s Target corp layoffs will create a ripple effect through the Twin Cities tech scene? (This is a moment when we may benefit from having so few leaders who live here, but we have enough.)

Anyone hear anything about tech or engineers being affected by the layoffs? We’ve essentially received no communication from our managers, directors, or VPs since the news came out

If layoffs are really coming, which group do you think gets hit first: tech, retail, or shared services?

Have not seen or heard anything on this here? No one commenting, Detroit media silent...as usual.

Has anyone nothing a horrible smell on all floors in Alpharetta..? It’s really distracting but especially the second and fourth floor. Maybe because that’s tech and IT and the people are overworked? It’s a mix of body odor and unwashed clothes. Very distracting and I’m thinking they just don’t have time or energy to bathe daily or laundry. Idk but I want to work home so bad the smell is extremely distracting from work and I often go to break room or work on patio just to get away.

But they have 100’s of them with labor department fake jobs LCA applications for H1B indentured servants

Be prepared

Overheard in office
Managers and directors are preparing list
Any other info

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/meta-plans-to-cut-600-jobs-in-its-ai-superintelligence-labs-6717116

Has anyone else heard that Doug is going to Apple to assist with their in-house AI program? A few people mentioned this during a meeting late last week.

Look what’s happening in tech - irrelevant stats being used to stack rank people because the people in charge don’t have actual strategic ideas. Measuring keystrokes and then showing “improvement “. Lol. Butts in seats. If you don’t trust your managers to manage and your strategy to measure what matters you have more problems than coffee badging. All the mistakes people made at their old banks are coming here.

Did Nvidia sell 10% stake at 0.01 per share ? No it's products are solid. This is betting the entire farm. Short term excellent but long term foolishness. Tell me I am wrong.

Up to 250 positions will be affected, as announced by Germany HR last week.
Tech LOB affected most with up to 90 positions.

Here it goes:

• AI can unlock sizable global productivity savings, driving more investment in compute, storage, and networking
• 85 percent of enterprises plan to move generative AI on premise, boosting demand for compute, storage, and networking
• Dell’s AI factory helps 3,000 plus enterprise customers deploy AI at scale
• As inferencing shifts to the edge, Dell can scale AI PCs opportunities
• Infrastructure Solutions Group is expected to sustain 11 percent to 14 percent CAGR over the next few years, led by AI servers, x86 servers, and storage
• x86 server growth should be supported by both higher units and higher average selling prices

https://www.barrons.com/articles/6-reasons-to-like-dell-stock-plus-draftkings-infosys-and-more-f16d0c81?mod=RTA

https://youtu.be/zcwqTkbaZ0o?si=9QKhLFHVKEhzAWqg

Sure, Cisco is integral to the future of AI.

Just look at how much this example AI datacenter relies on Cisco gear.

The writing is on the wall. Nothing!

We Are Cisco.
We Are Nortel; Part 2.

This time it's China again

http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/10/Another_Wave_of_Microsoft_Layoffs_This_Time_During_National_Day.shtml

Currently, I'm a tech support engineer for a Fusion team that supports an Oracle product for our customers. I don't want to go into too much detail, but no one seems to be worried, why??????? Are they stupid or is it just me that is realizing its time to look for something else.....
We have already lost a few members of our team, and while we have a lot of work and its draining, I feel that since they implemented their new AI support tool, our days here may be numbered.

I have a backup plan, but is it safe to assume that the layoffs are over in the US? Should I focus on upskilling and looking for something else? My gut tells me it might be time to leave Oracle.

So here’s what it is. Try to turn tech into a revenue generator by laying off a ton of people and licensing our technology with the new dept she created. Sorry folks that’s all you get when you pay someone $20 million a year. For $25 million you could have gotten a college graduate who learned AI by studying not by watching you tube. It’s Epic dude.

In tech. Recently there has increased visibility from leadership into our metrics/projects/etc. Our Jira boards and backlogs are regularly monitored and critiqued, and we've been told they are going to be averaging story point completion per person. Now they're asking us to track the specific skills we are using when completing each task. Is this happening anywhere else? Feels like a bad sign

https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/harger-washington-recession/4139846

https://www.altchar.com/game-news/xbox-handheld-reportedly-cancelled-as-microsoft-refuses-amds-10m-unit-commitment-aBH892X2KHCa