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Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff (www.theregister.com)
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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 2 points 8 months ago

I got laid off a couple of years ago by a large tech company (rhymes with Brisco). It sort of sucked, but it was part of a mass layoff of about half the employees who had come into Brisco when our original small company was acquired by them. Interestingly enough, everybody who was laid off was single and childless - all the people who were married and/or had kids were kept on. At least until this new round of layoffs, because fuck everybody we're going with AI.