Anyone notice that on the day of the layoff that you couldn't post here at thelayoff.com regarding Lowes. The Captcha system conveniently went down so no one could give updates on the layoffs. I tried posting of three different computers and the "broken picture" icon showed up on all three computers (mac and pc). I want to know if Lowes paid of thelayoff.com or Captcha to make sure no one could post about what was going on the day of the layoffs.
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I was looking at the visit counters, there was a few thousands people on the site at that moment. Maybe they are not ready to support so many users as we are one of the biggest companies in the world (300K employees)
this was affecting the whole site yesterday, i tried to post on home depot and it did not work there too
I saw the same thing. lasted for about 45 min. Being a techie, it could have been a gazillion things. the images can be on a cdn or in a db that blew up, dns could have gone wrong, they might have migrated some code that interprets it and matches it to posts, etc. I would not read too much into it.
this (layoffs dot com) is a powerful thing for the worker, and i'd hate to use it as we stay informed this way and can pool limited info we have to piece together a story that might be useful for us. this kind of levels the playing field a bit as the management has all the info and we have none. so, the closer we get to the info they more equipped to react we are.
granted, there is not much we can do right now, but things like this (site) will influence the mgmt to communicate better (look what happened here as we spread the story about reorg/layoffs on this site) and also be careful about things they do (to an extent) as both journalists (see the post from alex jones, reporter for TWC in NC) are monitoring this - it's 2017 and you cannot control all info like they did in the past, they need to change the approach and that's a good thing...
Yes, same here
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