I’m always afraid I will end up meeting someone like that.

I learned the lesson about people bullying you if you are nice. You have to put your foot down and be ready for others to take advantage of you being meek, even if in a more ideal world that’s what we should strive for. The reality is that the world is filled with trash and you can’t bow down to bullying. You have to fight back. Sadly it seems this man tried to take the high road and the attacks never stopped.

I think a lot of people here are either really young or haven’t worked a corporate job so they don’t realize companies have several departments that offer different roles. It’s like people who think GM only hires people who design and build cars when they have an entire IT department of their own. People on Reddit just generalize based on the industry the company is centered around because the average person here has no clue what they’re talking about.

I like how people assume that only the typical “tech worker” gets fired during these layoffs. These companies hired a bunch of different types of workers during the pandemic online sales boom and now they’re likely readjusting back to “normal” along with safeguarding themselves over recession concerns. It’s not just the software engineers being cut, it’s also a bunch of HR, finance, CS reps, etc. But anytime you hear about a tech company doing layoffs there’s some narrative about tech in decline or something similar for whatever reason, while completely ignoring the unprecedented COVID “boom” for some of these companies that no longer exists now.