Subj : Re: market change due to
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Sep 18 2025 07:38:19

-=> Nightfox wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

 Ni> Although layoffs are somewhat depressing, I also find it a little
 Ni> humorous in a weird way that a lot of tech companies have layoffs
 Ni> fairly often, and then hire people later for other projects.  Companies
 Ni> always like to have new & different projects to work on so they can
 Ni> stay in business, but rather than keep employees, they tend to have
 Ni> layoffs and hire different people instead.

 Contractors are cheaper, and aren't laid off, you just don't extend
 their contract. I've worked in some environments that were
 project-heavy and they people were used to having their contracts end,
 go do something else, then come back in 6 months to work on a new
 project, same teams, same desk.

 My worst layoff story - I worked at Macromedia back in the 90s and left
 in 1997. They started a move from full-spectrum multimedia authoring
 tools to All Internet, All the Time. I was there when they bought the
 company that became Flash, that was the beginning of the change.

 When I was there, we had 400 employees and a normal organizational
 structure. A new CEO brought in duplicate executives (imagine having a
 VP of sales AND a VP of revenues) until the redundant executives left.

 The company ballooned to 1800 employees, then when the .com bubble
 burst, they began massive layoffs. The company dropped to 800
 employees, 80 of which were VP level. One Tenth of the company was a
 VP!

 Layoffs for thee but not for me, indeed.



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