[HN Gopher] Show HN: Helping laid-off people find their next job
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Show HN: Helping laid-off people find their next job
Author : tracyhenry
Score : 54 points
Date : 2022-11-08 17:12 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.layoff-sucks.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.layoff-sucks.com)
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| philip1209 wrote:
| I like it! I wish there were some "resources for job seekers" -
| maybe people could add services or products that are free for job
| seekers
| ferdowsi wrote:
| > This list is an aggregation of public layoff lists where people
| voluntarily signed up, plus people who sign up through us.
|
| You should be actively getting the consent of these people on
| these lists. They consented to have their info in lists created
| and shared by colleagues, not as part of your service.
| JacobThreeThree wrote:
| Legally speaking I think the service is protected here, so long
| as they have an opt-out mechanism, and the contact information
| they provide has been previously published publicly. There are
| large companies, like Meltwater for instance, whose business
| models are like this.
| shishy wrote:
| Your linkedin page links aren't working -- they go to layoff-
| sucks.com/<linked-in-url> instead of just the linkedin url
| tracyhenry wrote:
| It works on my end - can you try some more? What's your
| browser?
| patchorang wrote:
| I'm getting the same thing, not on every one, but every 5 or
| so rows the linkedin link doesn't work. Chrome.
| tacostakohashi wrote:
| Layoffs don't suck, layoffs are great.
|
| It's a quick, guilt-free way to get out of a dead-end situation
| without having to spend a multi-week notice period writing
| documentation, handing over, and pretending you'll be lifelong
| friends with a group of people you are sick of that don't have
| your back.
| winphone1974 wrote:
| You appear to be contrasting layoffs to quitting, so wouldn't
| you be the one who doesn't have your coworkers' backs?
| kalupa wrote:
| I'm sure glad I don't work with you ...
| elcomet wrote:
| That's only true if
|
| - you have enough money to be out of work for a while
|
| - you are not on a visa
|
| which is definitely not the case for many people. And what if
| you like your job ? Then layoff does suck, no ? You seem to
| think the alternative option to layoff is quitting, but what
| about staying at the company ?
| whatever1 wrote:
| Layoffs great when you are in your 20s-30s. Specially if you
| are single with established immigration status.
|
| Not so great when you are in your 50s with family, health
| expenses & loans and nobody wants to hire you.
| ill_pigeon wrote:
| You are going to get completely fucked by GDPR if you're scraping
| and rehosting people's personal data. This is not cool at all.
|
| I recommend you shut this down immediately and email everyone on
| the list to apologise.
| lazyasciiart wrote:
| I don't believe that's true. Specifically, they say they are
| republishing public lists that people have signed up for, for
| largely the same purpose ("letting people know that I've been
| laid off"), which is in the interest of the subject. They
| should be notifying the people on the list, but there's nothing
| intrinsically wrong with what they're doing.
| remram wrote:
| Luckily the GDPR is a bit more specific than "it was public
| somewhere in the first place".
| Aaronstotle wrote:
| GDPR has no bite
| rookhack wrote:
| This is great (I mean it sucks that there are so many layoffs,
| but the tool is really useful). Where are you sourcing all the
| data from?
| andrew_ wrote:
| Not trying to poop in the cereal, but take a beat before adding
| your name to the site; I'd be wary that this will be used to
| blacklist a whole lot of folks. There's a large segment of tech
| that doesn't see a tenure at Twitter as a positive, for example.
| Maybe consider hiding the company name.
| culopatin wrote:
| So if you worked at Twitter for 3 years what do you do? Have a
| 3 year gap in your resume? If the company doesn't want Twitter
| employees you were not going to get a job there anyway.
| winphone1974 wrote:
| This is ridiculous, and I imagine it's only true for one
| Twitter employee who's only been there for a very short time.
| If this was the case how would you expect these people to get a
| job if they got further down the funnel? Do you think a big
| unexplained gap in your timeline is better then having worked
| at Twitter?
| lispisok wrote:
| _There 's a large segment of tech that doesn't see a tenure at
| Twitter as a positive_
|
| Why?
| blindhippo wrote:
| Based on what I've read (here, reddit, and sadly the cesspool
| that is Blind) Twitter engineers are lazy and the epitome of
| the "rest and vest" career path.
|
| So, just software engineers being toxic gatekeepers based on
| dubious opinions.
|
| I've noticed trying to interview at smaller companies with a
| big tech company on my resume, I get a lot of weird pushback
| - like the interviewer is actively trying to discard me just
| to say they did. (anecdotal - so for what it's worth)
| jade_liu wrote:
| jedberg wrote:
| This is an awesome tool and a great service you are providing!
|
| One note of feedback: When I first loaded the page, all I saw
| were listings from Starry Internet, and when I reloaded it was
| just Lyft. This makes it look like you only have people from one
| company.
|
| My suggestion would be to randomize the listing on each page load
| (or even bias the list towards diversity of company and role).
| Then people can see the depth of the people signed up and start
| exploring filters.
| xwowsersx wrote:
| And just "groupon" for me
| tracyhenry wrote:
| Thx for the feedback! The list is already randomized on every
| load (from a given starting point). We'll make it more
| randomized. For now, you can filter the companies, and use the
| pagination to see more companies.
| datalopers wrote:
| So recruiters can contact you? That's called having a LinkedIn or
| an email address on github.
|
| Recruiters are the ones being laid off the most aggressively
| anyway.
| umeshunni wrote:
| It's meant to help recruiters find people who are actively
| looking for a new role.
| andirk wrote:
| If I was running a successful tech company, these layoffs would
| be a godsend. Plenty of amazing devs let go simply to lower
| headcount costs. I'd be poaching this list ASAP!
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