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An engineer laid off after over 16 years at Google says 'faceless' tech giants see staff as '100% disposable'
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/engineer-laid-off-over-16-104711925.html
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“ Everyone is dispensable at any companies.”
True - but since Google is relatively a young company, don’t think any of them have been through corporate wide layoffs before. Welcome to life at a mature Fortune 50 company, where just about everyone is seen as a disposable cog in a machine that runs less efficiently over time.
Having survived SISP in 2022 at the hands of FoMoCo and back on my feet, and don’t plan on staying with any one company for a long time anymore….just not worth it. I hope some of the Googlers learn this lesson.
Everyone is dispensable at any companies.
Yes - They are the new 'Robber Barons' and just like the old school 'Tycoons' are running the show all the way to deciding who will be POTUS, and have been working with the WEF and WHO for some time to undermine all freedoms. Like the Rockefellers of old, they are gods unto themselves and consider you 'eligible for population control incentives'.
The culture at google is notorious for ageism. They have even settled out of court for it: https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/behavioral-competencies/global-and-cultural-effectiveness/pages/google-ends-age-discrimination-suit-with-11-million-settlement.aspx. Most of the posts I see on LinkedIn are employees with 12+ years, making them the oldest and highest paid. This cull was them playing their same tricks.
I retired 18 months ago- crosstown automotive OEM. Seems these days, both the employee and employer need to be nimble. One’s talents are purchased as long as there is need for such talents. Tenure seems a thing of the past.
Tenure isn't a guarantee or right of employment indefinitely. Maybe there's more to the story we just don't know?
After 16 years, maybe they just motivation, weren't innovating as much as their peers, for whatever reason just landed at the bottom of the stack rank and a decision had to be made. Never know, after that long, the person maybe just became super cynical about work, complaining about everything and just being negative influence on everyone around them.
All that said, it's important to remember that you can do everything right in life, and still fail at something. That's life. Consider it a gift of being forced into more variety than one's long running routine has had in a long time.