There are no jobs. Wait, let me rephrase that. There are some jobs, but there are way more people trying to fill those positions, so every offer I've gotten so far has been lowballed into oblivion. So if we're laid off, we'll be entering one of the worst job markets for employees in who knows how long. And that's sending my anxiety to new levels.
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@de “sufficient unto today is the evil thereof”
Bro, I can’t even get an offer….
@OP Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:34
It might be because I am from NYC, but no company truly gives a fu-k about you. I live by the Maya Angelou quote..."When Someone Shows You Who They Are..Believe Them The FIRST TIME". Apply while working, do your job, but NEVER FOR A FU--ING SECOND THINK your manager, VP, etc. WON'T lay your a-s off to cover their a-s. That is corporate and capitalism.
Yes
Announce your “largest cost transformation” at a conference, then figure out whose livelihoods to cut. Wall Street gets a presentation. Employees get blindsided, silence, and the privilege of waiting. But please, keep delivering.
Next comes the rebrand: new name, new colors, same rot. Leaders take a victory lap while everyone else pays for the “transformation.”
My parents raised me to know right from wrong. Calling it “just business” doesn’t make it right. I ain’t drinking your corporate Kool-Aid. May karma and a badly timed case of diarrhea interrupt your next victory lap. Get out of here.
@bp me as well, I can really relate. I come home sick with stress, with no time to balance family obligations with what's essentially a full time job search. I'm sorry you're going through it, as well.
Some tips:
Apply directly on company websites, no LinkedIn. Use LinkedIn to find who is hiring. Easy Apply is garbage.
Apply to dozens of jobs a day, I did like 300 applications last year after divisional layoffs and got probably 15 interviews.
Make a non-telecom resume. Get out of this industry. Try to highlight titles and skills that are transferrable out of this.
I can’t sleep or eat because I’m either super stressed AT work or super stressed outside of work trying to get a new job. It’s essentially like having two jobs in addition to the stress of being overworked + worrying about lay offs + worrying and stressing about finding a new job. It’s miserable and taking a huge toll on me but all I can do is stay persistent
Worrying wont make corporate change their decision, prepping and planning is all you can do. Take the time and fear to set up a plan, 1k => 3month =>6 months+ should be the emergency fund goal for everyone in tech especially with jobs being sent over seas en masse and the unknown of what ai capabilities and cost will be in in the next few years.
I left for a smaller telco engineering firm a few months ago upon hearing about another reorg that would have effectively doubled my already doubled workload from prior layoffs. The market was bad then. It is so much worse now. My current company just did their first layoff exercise in 20 years. Most companies that deal with broadband, fiber, or general internet deployment aren’t hiring. The companies that are hiring are the ones that deploy or engineer fiber long hauls between data centers. The pay is definitely not worth it because work is awful since it’s all non-franchise and the clients (Meta/Google/Microsoft) are miserable and out of touch with reality. That and the municipalities are catching on that all of these long haul fiber backbone permits are for data center development they’re all giving pushback or straight up won’t approve permits.
It’s rough out there yall. Take care of yourselves.