Designers Anxious AI Will Replace Them

“The end of the day the only answer is lying and hoping they don't catch you. It's pretty much a no at every firm anywhere to have another job at all, no point even asking because it just makes them note you to check out on. You also can't provide any non-W2 work/services to anyone, even non-clients. My firm fired a tax manager for doing some 1040 work on the side they found out about. Clients the firm would have never wanted because they were too small for our fees. They don't ca”

“About to sign my severance package this week. Feeling kind of shit, embarrassed, mad, and stressed. Feels like I got gut punched for no good reason. Investors and board members being greedy and absolutely inhumane. My type of work requires a resume plus a portfolio of my previous work, which I haven’t even updated. I’ve been taking care of personal health / family so this is just unfortunate timing. It’s a bad time but this is life I guess. I’m also trying to get connected with peeps of reddit,”

“I added another question as well, I don't think any offers are 100% which is why I want to make the best move. Either I'm here or I'm there lol My current workplace is small, and my supervisor and manager understand it's entry level and expect us to leave somewhat. Should I tell them my concerns about the offer being revoked, and I'd ideally want to stay here if something falls through? What I'm imaging is something goes wrong, and I don't look like I'm crawling b”

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“I was laid off last week from a major global bank, along with a bunch of other people. Our jobs are going to Inida, where they can be done cheaper. I am a top performer, so I was shocked I was laid off. I guess nothing protects a worker when the company wants to improve the bottom line. submitted by /u/Seeker_Asker [link] [comments]”

“I just started working at my company ~1 month ago. In that time, quite a few people / teams have been let go, including people pretty close to me. I have read a few posts on here about people having their offers rescinded before day 1. But have people been laid off within their first couple weeks? submitted by /u/cdmacsneaks [link] [comments]”

Please delete it if this is not allowed, making this on behalf of my partner since they don't use reddit . My partner and I were laid off late last year, but…

“I know what a stomach punch that can be. I've had it happen to me twice. Once I was eased out of my job by a new alignment, and the next time I was eliminated because I had agreed to be part of the house union. Recently, I know we're not supposed to push products here, but I wrote a book specifically for people who have been laid off. It really looks at how people are seeing artificial intelligence these days and not realizing that there is potential for many jobs. How do you get them? T”

“Hi! I am sure many of you have run into this issue. In an agency, according to my contract I am not allowed to talk about what I did in my previous role, which projects I have worked on and who the clients were. So, I am kind of confused as to what I can say. I am afraid to use a generic text, which only vaguely describes what I did, which probably would not get me past the screening phase. The projects have been great, and if I can show what I've been working on I'd say I would be the t”

“Even in a reasonable manager's mind, an employee who has demonstrated they are willing to leave is more risky than the average employee who is most likely not actively looking. It's probably not catastrophic in most circumstances but it's something to consider.”

“It probably comes down to this: they are running out of money and they need to cut expenses to survive. And while you might be a good or even great employee, you are an expense they can't afford. It happened to me during the dot bomb. Start looking for a new position now and be very aggressive about it.”

“One of my previous companies also made up a shit ton of BS. I’m trying to get a role where I can WFH and get paid more too.”

“Yesterday I found out my position is being eliminated as part of a larger layoff—after only 9 months with the company. Unlike my last layoff, which was a “today’s your last day” conversation, I’ve been given a little over 10 weeks of working notice. Honestly, I can’t decide if that’s better or worse. The role was never what I was hired for. I was upfront during the interview process about what I was looking for, was promised X, and ended up with Y. Before I even finished probation, my manager an”

“Yesterday I found out my position is being eliminated as part of a larger layoff—after only 9 months with the company. Unlike my last layoff, which was a “today’s your last day” conversation, I’ve been given a little over 10 weeks of working notice. Honestly, I can’t decide if that’s better or worse. The role was never what I was hired for. I was upfront during the interview process about what I was looking for, was promised X, and ended up with Y. Before I even finished probation, my manager an”

“In a job market this bad, I wouldn't quit unless you had something better lined up. That said, I'd also be at least casually looking once or twice a week regardless of where you are.”

“Oh my gosh that's awful. I'm so sorry that happened. What a horrible way to be terminated.”

“I've been working remotely in a role for several months. My team has had a lot of turnover since I started - we've basically lost a person each month since I started. Typically people have been terminated on Fridays. It has felt like a dumpster fire since I started, but I'm trying to hang in there in hopes that it will get better. Fast forward to yesterday when someone tried to propose a new time on a meeting I sent over. When looking through Outlook's scheduler there was a block”

“First of all, I'm trying sorry about what you're going through. That's so rough! I would ask for a free consultation from an employment attorney, honestly. I don't think what they said to you is legal but the attorney is the expert here. I used to work for attorneys and you can ask for contingency where they don't get paid unless you win or you can also ask for pro bono (free) if you are unable to afford the outright retainer amount. The attorney would be about to let you kno”

“find a better job offer, then the next time your ceo calls you after hour tell him if he needs you to continue to work there he has to stop calling you after 5pm and double your pay and he has 24 hours to send a written agreement or you walk.”

“Current job is attempting to manage me out. Signs are was reorged out of my function where I lost ownership of my segment and into a “support” role where I just support other marketers with whatever they need. Last year I didn’t get my full bonus and only got a 1% merit increase to which I later found out anyone that got a 0%-1% raise the company is trying to force out without having to lay them off….. and it’s working because a lot of us are quitting. So I got a new job offer last week. It’s $1”

“So a new company took over our sector and wants to pay me 17k less than what I am making. it is the same exact job. I decided to try and apply/interview for the position above mine (we will call it specialist 2) since my skills and experience already exceed my current role. For background, there was only 2 of us in the previous sector. Myself with 10 years over all experience in the field, 5 of which are specific to this job. I have only been at this job for 8 months before the company switch ov”

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Just got laid off yesterday

“I’ve worked for a big bank and popular CC company for over 10 years. They just had about 4k layoffs in their NYC office for AI Innovation funding. Yet they’re claiming they’re not laying people off due to AI. It’s corporate restructure, I’m due to train gpts before I go. 🤖 Very disappointed in how this is being handled my EVP & SVPs whom I’ve been close with did not say a word after the news. They walked by me in the hall as if I didn’t exist. They held a meeting with our direct teams after”

“One can even go to an unemployment office, and check their day labor board. But that takes initiative.”

“I got laid off recently due to company restructuring and probably budget cuts. HR gave me two options – I can get almost a month’s salary as a severance pay but they will write that I was “laid off” in the letters. I can resign but that means I will not get the severance pay. Now, I am confused as to should I let them write because I would have to tell the reason while giving the interviews any which way. I asked them if they could write “laid off due to company restructuring“ but they refused t”

“I was laid off this week on Wednesday afternoon by my manager. They are paying me until the end of the month and hoping I will do a handoff call with a couple colleagues. Apparently the CEO was in on everyone elses manager 1/1 layoff calls except for mine. Its a super small company that's fully remote with no HR. So for some reason he scheduled a call with me for Friday (today). I told him I needed to collect myself and pushed it to Monday. But wtf is this for other than to make himself feel”

“I was working for a fintech company and they laid me off after 6 months of employment due to “team realignment”. I was devastated when I first got laid off as it was my first time experiencing something like this but I picked myself up and started doing the following: Update LinkedIn Profile Optional: sign up for LinkedIn Premium (which I did for free by signing up for a trial) Several recruiters actually reached out to me via LinkedIn about opportunities and I got my new job from a recruiter re”

“I recently got to know that my employee contract will be ending in just 2 weeks and I don't know what I should be doing now. I have been working full time for last 5-6 months. I was so busy with the work and I was giving my 100% to this company and now they are firing me because they think my salary is high and they can get some intern or someone to do the manual task and ask my coworker to take my place. Although the company said they are firing me because of my performance, I do know I am”

“I was laid off by my employer last month. This isn't the first payroll mistake they've made. A while back they accidentally paid me an extra month's salary. I immediately informed them and transferred it back because it had been sent to an account I had access to. Now they've made another mistake. They accidentally credited money into my provident fund account and someone from accounts reached out asking me to refund it. I explained that this wasn't like last time because the”

“It varies which is my fear factor to be frank, I won’t go into details but the average fee I charge is around 20% of Year 1 Salary cost - the roles can vary between 75k-200k base”

“Your observations are correct, W2 is generally better. W2 is a career, contracting is a job. A lot of contractors do bill 40 hour weeks, regardless of the actual hours. I have seen some managers be real sticklers and not allow it, though.”

“I was just laid off from my tech job in Massachusetts and given a standard 3-month severance package (all others impacted in the department were also given this) The official reason given was business pressures—my director was asked to select one person from the team to let go, and I was chosen. This is despite the fact that I have more tenure and stronger required skills for the role than some others on the team. I feel like I have room to negotiate because I believe I was picked as the weak li”

“Title says it all. Unfortunately I was part of a mass RIF and was let go due to business reasons, not performance (which is frustrating because I was a top performer). The timing is very tricky as I'm less than two weeks from giving birth to my first child. I've already spoken to employment lawyers and I don't have a case since I can't prove discrimination due to pregnancy, even if it is super unethical of them to have laid me off at this time. The good news is, they are giving m”

“Long story short I ended up falling into an interview with a company I've been trying to get into since I got laid off a year ago, I'd check their website twice a week, ended up getting an interview for one position recently but another one they hadn't opened yet which I was very cqualified for, they had me interview for before they even put it up on the website. Interview went great, I have a couple friends at this place who've put in a good reference for me and they said when t”

“Only been in the workforce for 7 years and I’ve been in two layoffs already from two different companies. Who said, get a degree, network and white collar job at a big corporation is safe? I put myself in six figure debt for my college degree. I’m fighting for my life here. I’ve been a hustler all my life, at some point I had negative bank account just to have a ham sandwich. I worked every weekends while full time in college. I’m just trying to make it in America. I spend less than $2k/month an”

“So I am working here in a company where my salary was decent. They are planning to reduce salary significantly because they are going on loss, i can save still from the reduced salary but it feels not justified to have the salary reduced. So, I am looking for interviews for other company. I have already applied for like 3-4 interviews. I so badly want to leave this place but im feeling i may regret if i dont land a job as soon as possible after leaving the current job. Should i risk this and lea”

“So I am working here in a company where my salary was decent. They are planning to reduce salary significantly because they are going on loss, i can save still from the reduced salary but it feels not justified to have the salary reduced. So, I am looking for interviews for other company. I have already applied for like 3-4 interviews. I so badly want to leave this place but im feeling i may regret if i dont land a job as soon as possible after leaving the current job. Should i risk this and lea”

“So, I was laid off back in March and I was looking for the remote and on site Job for about six months now since January. But I am unable to get a job matching my expected salary. So, I am being offered a CTO position in a startup with a CEO with whom I have worked for six years in an organization a few years back. The startup is I would say is well established and CEO was managing it with junior and mid level engineers for few years. But he is now offering me this position as a CTO so I will be”

“I have been offered a job by this company, but I've been made redundant twice in 5 years by companies going into liquidation so I wanted to check if this company was ok money wise. To me I think this company is in debt but I don't know much about how accounts get filed? Anyone have any idea? It is over the phone sales if that makes any difference? They employ a few people in an office and then they have homeworkers who are self employed on commission only. submitted by /u/Pri”

“Oh it's fine...I'm older so I'd rather it be me than a young person. But thanks :)”

“Hey, unfortunately, my company announced layoffs yesterday and my team has been impacted. I'm confident about my work, I know things but the state of the market hasn't improved. I'm in Bangalore, India. Suggest how to go about it? I don't think LinkedIn is gonna help me at all this time. I want a remote or hyrbid job but honestly anything works. Help help! submitted by /u/GaladrielUnbound [link] [comments]”

“Please don’t leave your current job. Embrace the security. We are going through a very weird paradigm shift right now with the job market. It’s starting to feel like if you fall out you may never get back in.”

“I got laid off in May by a big tech company. (I disagreed quite often with the controller) who was the highest level in the finance department because the CFO had a forced resignation two years ago. I was outsourced to India. Disagreements ranged from not wanting CHATGPT to determine credit limits for clients (He just has people upload the pdf from D&B into CHATGPT and asks for a credit limit) to carrying forward bad debt that has already been collected to accrue a provision for a different”

“Three years ago I would have said loyalty to a company was a safe play. Stick around, get promoted internally, build credibility. That was the plan. Then I started interviewing after getting laid off and kept running into this weird dynamic where hiring managers would look at my tenure and either assume I was stuck, or ask why I stayed so long like it was a red flag. Meanwhile people I knew who had hopped every 18 months had more offers and better comp. I get that job hopping used to be the thin”

“As the title says, my boss laid off a coworker recently and suddenly. She was good at her job and my boss had been asking some of us if we could do part of her job. I used to do part of her job before she took her current position and I was under the impression she was taking over another part of the business. I’m in a position where I feel relatively safe from layoffs, and I had recently been working on a proposal for to create a new role for me that would give me more responsibility in the org”

“This company laid me off for a month in the middle of summer with almost no notice. They kept telling me I'd be back after the 30th, then after the 4th, and now they're finally calling me back on the 20th. Before calling me back, my boss said he couldn't justify paying me $32/hour because I'm "too slow." That seemed strange since I'm no slower than everyone else. Then I realized the rest of the traveling carpenters were hired in under $28/hour. My $32/hour also come”

“It might be too late for your present company, but you might try a different approach for you next company. Change your request to a much more positive and company forward approach. Rather than such a firm demand, instead ask about low cost or cost neutral alternatives: staggered hybrid schedule, change working hours so drive time if off-peak, flexible PTO or floating holidays, pre-tax commuter benefits. These much more likely to have the company thinking about positive responses. When you go in”

“Do you have a union? Honestly this is the unfortunate reality of being the bottom of the totem pole and my union and co-workers who had been in a similar situation were helpful. My position was cut in my third year at a district and I wasn't even on the bottom (the cuts just went very deep). The contract generally only cares about certification area and seniority; whether or not you're the best only factors in if everyone involved is tenured. Your admin might not have been reassuring but”

“Why the two weeks? You’re not cutting bridges if they have already laid you off”

“I've been with my current employer for 8 years. Before we were acquired by a much larger company about a year ago, it was honestly an amazing place to work. We were a small company, I genuinely felt like family there, and the previous owner even personally paid out of his own pocket to help cover some of my wife's medical issues a few years ago. He is genuinely a great person who deserves the best. Since the acquisition, though, things have slowly gone downhill. I recently received an of”

“Which is weird, because if you have to sign a waiver to receive it then it's not income from that job, it's remuneration for signing the contract and anything above the minimum required severance shouldn't count. Was it paid out over time or in lump sum? That's the only way I can see them arguing that it's employment income, but I'm no lawyer.”

AI.

“After 22 years of working in the Telecom I've been told my job is being relocated, I'm a bit lost if I'm honest but I'm taking it as an opportunity to better my skill set, I've been working mainly in fibre optics, with the last few years in planning/project management. Obviously this is a bit of a niche area but I'd like to diversify into another industry. I'm 45 in the UK. I've looked into getting my NEBOSH but the thought of being a H&S bod doesn't exact”

“I’m leaving my first job out of school. I’m also the lead for the group. We are a small group of PAs (fully staffed is 3 including myself). My boss is also my SP. I’m giving 10 weeks notice (nothing is required in my contract but I have a good relationship with my boss and I want to give her plenty of time since I know the credentialing and hiring takes a while). How do I quit? What is the proper etiquette? Call? Email? submitted by /u/boring_socks [link] [comments]”

“Hey all! This is a half venting, half asking for advice post Got laid off today along with my whole team and other teams. New acting CEO, three months into the job, decided our transformation department was no longer needed, nor M&A or strategy as well. The company was nearly bankrupt a few years ago before a sovereign wealth fund bought it, and our HQ team spent the last two years driving a genuine turnaround across global business units and it was growing exponentially. He’s now benched mo”

“So weird. You'd think with an account as old as mine I'd have had at least one offer.”

Close enough, HR lmao

“If you were originally hired as fully remote and they changed contract then yes you’re fully justified to have that expense paid. If you were office worker before or office working was part of your job then no, it’s normal commute that most of office workers pay themselves for”