I got laid off.

19/08/2022 - I received an email at 3pm advising me that I'm part of a group of 100 employees who are being let go. All the accounts were deactivated except Slack so we can say final good-bye to our team.

The decision was made based on "Last in, first out". It sucks because I loved the work and team plus work from home.

Thats sucks.

LIFO

Sorry to hear, but hope you move on to some other good thing soon. Top tip: don't take a moment off - apply for at least three jobs immediately. Good luck :-)

@Nanos It should, but when management lacks the balls to make tough decisions the "fair" way is easier.

@Nanos , in addition to what @devdiddydog said about management cowardice, there is also plain ol' incompetence.
Most often suit-fuckers actually *can't* measure tech employee performance. That is indeed a complicated, subtle, mutable and ambiguous subject at the best of times. That is why there are sooooo freaking many staff analytics firms out there.
And suit-fuckers won't admit to their limitations. Thus, they would rather fire at random (bloody comparison, but eery appropriate).

Heh. On the cowardice thing again, never trust management with deciding over bad news. Or, as the world most famous consultant (Michael Scott) would say:
"I'm a *good* news guy. Don't you go making me do things with bad news!"

@Nanos break times? Are you talking about software jobs or factory/warehouse jobs?

I'd argue it's not common to measure software developer productivity based off who clocks in early or late.

@JsonBoa Yeah I think it's intrinsically difficult to judge developer performance. Especially for non devs. I don't blame the suits for having no idea.

Seems pretty much impossible for a manager to know how difficult something like one refactoring is compared to another.

@Nanos low-level managers most definitely should come from tech careers.
I mean, you wouldn't put someone who doesn't know a word of Finnish nor the culture to be a sales manager for the whole of Finland.
So why put someone who can't even read Python to manage the careers of those who do?
There lies the abysmal difference between managers who know how to evaluate their teams and those who do not.

@JsonBoa .. and even those low level managers that don't come from tech backgrounds should have somewhat of a clue to who pulls their weight or not. It is usually pretty obvious.

If they are that disconnected from their employees, maybe the manager should go.

@useVim also FILO

That is sums rough news. At least you know it's a corporate budget cut and nothing to do with you or your performance

@Nanos Might differ in different places but here in Sweden I've never heard of a dev job with set break times other than a vague time span around noon for lunch. People take breaks whenever. Might be some official cake time once in a while but everyone can take breaks randomly besides that.

@Nanos "Shouldn't all the suits be former developers" - some manage small teams with both designers, devs, PMs, analytics people, etc so they can't be former experts at everything.

Many teams are structured as where the domain experts you turn to are regular team members, and suits just handle the overall collaboration in the team and are not someone you turn to for domain expertise, just collaboration and HR stuff

@Nanos OK, now This I can relate to. If there's a scheduled cake break between 10 to 10:15 you might hear "stop working and join us!" with a disregard for people who wanna do 8 hours, leave early and feel like they don't have time for breaks.

Just never heard anyone say anything along the lines of "This MF is not back from the cake break and it's 10:19!!"

Sorry to hear that. Hope you get another job in a better company. Best of luck in your search