I know the leftist in me is supposed to have sympathy for these people and get them to unionize. But only after I stop laughing and enjoying this moment. For years these fucks told the rest of us to “learn to code” and pretended like studying anything else at uni was a fucking waste of time.
GUESS WHAT FUCKERS. SO WAS CODING. Looks like we’ll be baristas together, only I’ll have three years of experience!!!
Honestly a lot of this is because of a coordinated action by big employers all deciding to cut budgets and do layoffs, all at the same time.
It started about two years ago when I kept hearing "2023 is going to be bad, we need to cut costs" and then costs got cut. Things didn't really turn out as dire as originally thought, but the costs keep getting trimmed.
I want to think that it's all part of a concerted effort by fortune 100 companies to nose dive the economy and get the Republicans back in power so they'll run the economy hot again like 2016-2020 but it also could just be idiot business herd-mentality where someone said it's going to be bad and spooked the entire fortune 100 elite into all doing the same thing.
Either way it has me just sitting right where I work and not looking, even though I've had conversations with a group of folks who all are looking to move as a group, together, a-la Dave Cutler's tribe when they went from DEC to Microsoft. We'd like to move as a group from one employer to another
It's the interest rates. You can't borrow money for basically free anymore. Previously risky ventures financed on loans now just don't make financial sense anymore, so they get cut. And that's still true because interest rates are still high.
It's 100,000% this. Venture capital went fucking wild from 2008 onwards because interest rates were so low you could take out a loan for practically zero interest to fund whatever dumb idea was being tossed around. FAANG in particular hired like fucking mad during the pandemic, and when interest rates inevitably raised they all realized they were dumping billions of dollars into dead-end projects that would never deliver profit.
It's shitty that, as usual, workers end up eating the cost of capital's hubris, but this downturn in the industry was inevitable.
The core mechanism of coordination was/is the capitalist class/private bank cartel, through Fed. Res. Chair. Powell raising interest rates, which ended the 14 year cheap money spree that started in the Great Recession.
It’s both. There has been a spike in tax rates, and they wanna nose dive the government, always. But they are also lemmings with no imagination for finding ways to operate that don’t involve cut cost and provide shittier services.