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Layoff season (lemy.lol)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (18 children)

Oh, then they might lay you off first because you’re underperforming compared to your peers.

[–] Surreal 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You think they bother checking thousands of employees' performances before laying them off? The only performance they check is who is better bud with management

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Each manager probably have a few people in mind when their higher ups asks them to cut down head count in the department. Unless they decide to cut down the entire department of course. Then performance no longer matter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

From my experience, this is not the case. Layoffs in the US (especially those in tech) are quite secret and quite sudden, which means the decision of whom to lay off is typically done at a sufficiently high level where they're generally clueless about individual performance.

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