...wondering if this is 10,000 or more. Somehow I was looking for this layoffs as a closure, a reset and fresh start. Well, it doesn't feel like it. It still feels hopeless, murky, cloudy, stale, gay... And well, I hope you feel differently...
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There is karma; these meat grinder execs will suffer one day.
Completed first three suggestions. Will get the beer and chips for the show ;). Still decompressing from years of Q pressure.
@ Death: So, shorter: Leave QC. Find a job you really like. Stay tuned for the blood bath. Bring lots of beer and chips for your friends!
I was working in a Wall Street darling company when the market came crashing down in 2000. The most funny memory I have from those days is of an exec who in 1999 literally visited site after site begging people not to leave for some startup/competitor. When the tide turned and the job market became an employer's market, the same exec was seen shuttling between sites to convey the message "deliver or else ...".
Sometimes not even the megalomaniacs such as the ones that run Q can fight the more powerful currents of economics and markets.
Be certain. The reckoning for the execs is yet to come. It will be a slow grind down and fun to watch if you have the stamina for it.
OP: if you didn't win the lottery this time around, it's time to leave if you feel that way.
QC could have handled the revenue decline differently. Around 2008 housing bubble burst, many companies cut salaries to minimize the number of layoffs. CEO’s volunteered to take $1 pay. QC execs do not seem to have the fortitude to do what is right. Instead, it institutes a slow death. People who chased and got power are some of the biggest cowards.