Rant VIII: The Reckoning

[GasBandit]

Unfortunately a lot of the industry still hasn't gotten the hint that they can't just fire their software engineers and make AI do all their code. Also unfortunately, everybody's bracing for the incoming recession-that-will-probably-turn-depression, and so hiring is also kind of on hold.

Even the guys in my department have had any of their certification/training tasks that would cost money to get quietly cancelled TFN.

The amount of concern I have about my own job security is non-zero, thanks to a combination of tariffs (Everything my company sells is made in China, and sometimes assembled in Mexico) and our primary customers (Universities and City/County governments) having their budgets slashed by DOGE-wannabes in the State Capital. I'm usually super-stacked for work. Right now I'm revising my existing code templates to make future coding go faster, because I've got nothing on my plate until April 2nd.

 

[Dave]

Welp, my wife’s cyst(s) have not decreased. Whether that is because they are resistant or because they are something else is unknown. She is going in for a CAT scan and will then go from there. Doc says it still might be cancer at this point but he’s not that worried about it. Easy for him to say I guess, but Kerri is freaking out.

 

[Ravenpoe]

So, I still have a job for the next two months, during which time I will basically captain the ship while it sinks. If I leave before then I do not get my severance, which I do want, so I'm kinda stuck here until then.

But boy do I no longer want to be here.

 

[Ravenpoe]

After carefully going over the details of the severance agreement, I have unlocked a new quest: get fired.

I don't think they're ready for honest me.

 

[ThatNickGuy]

After carefully going over the details of the severance agreement, I have unlocked a new quest: get fired.

I don't think they're ready for honest me.

Time for my favorite kind of compliance: malicious compliance.

 

[blotsfan]

After carefully going over the details of the severance agreement, I have unlocked a new quest: get fired.

I don’t think this is a morally objectionable idea, but it seems like this could end with you getting fired without severance and them daring you to sue a multibillion dollar corporation.

 

[Ravenpoe]

I don’t think this is a morally objectionable idea, but it seems like this could end with you getting fired without severance and them daring you to sue a multibillion dollar corporation.

I really don't think they care enough for that, I doubt I register to them at all

 

[blotsfan]

I hope you’re right.

 

[Celt Z]

So, I still have a job for the next two months, during which time I will basically captain the ship while it sinks. If I leave before then I do not get my severance, which I do want, so I'm kinda stuck here until then.

But boy do I no longer want to be here.

Ugh, been there. It was such an awful month, I still get borderline PTSD from it.

 

[Far]

I wasn't entitled to any severance because they had offered me another role at a different store. Ultimately, I wasn't interested because it was in a completely different part of the city, I'd come to like working downtown, and it was going from a large bustling store right downtown Vancouver to a tiny mall satellite store. The period from when we found out to the ultimate close date was 6 months, and the 3 I did stick it out for was draining as hell. The first 2 weeks were customers constantly coming in and sympathizing but mostly bemoaning to us how much it sucked to lose the largest book store in the core, most ignoring that the people they were crying to about it were losing their livelyhood.

Then it shifted, and for the next 2 months, it was just people asking when stuff was going on sale for clearance/when are these going to get marked down/why aren't you getting any new stock here anymore? Shudder to think of what it ended up becoming after I left.