This is really bad and it may get worse...
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Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program
https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/training/tradeact
The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program
Look into TAA. Get extra months of unemployment, training, and health care insurance savings.
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44153.pdf
if you are training someone oversees where your job is being outsourced then file a petition. Save all your documents (emails, meeting notices, etc.) for proof.
This is from hacker news:
raiyu 10 hours ago [-]
Hey folks,
Cofounder of DigitalOcean here.
Letting people go is always a complicated matter at any scale. Whether you are a ten person company and firing one employee or you are 500 people and firing a larger number.
Wanted to address a few statements from the hackernews community here.
We are not prepping the company for sale.
As unfortunate as the layoffs are they were really due to two CEO changes in the past 18 months and leadership changes that created competing directions in the business, which Yancey our new CEO, is now addressing.
We are not running out of money, nor do we have an immediate need to raise capital, and the lay-offs aren't related to any sort of "cost-cutting".
We last raised an equity round in the summer of 2015 and haven't had a need to raise capital since. This is because we are very capital efficient and have been since our founding.
There are no profitability issues with $5/mo customers as the unit economics are the same as larger accounts. As we have grown we have added more products and features so that scaling teams and companies can also be successful on DigitalOcean, but we are not changing our commitment to the individual developer and those who are just getting started.
Lastly, it pains me to see people let go, having been on both sides of the table, it honestly just really s—s
Here is a coverage piece by TC:
https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/17/digitalocean-layoffs/