Comments on: Tech Layoffs Surge Past 100,000

By: 2R

2R — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:54:52 +0000

You tell ‘em, Dood.

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:52:45 +0000

Hey do you get to hob nob with the adult stars of the opposite sex. If so sign me up now for work at an adult web site. I feel I need to do something vaguely sleazy to survive anyway.

At least it beats my marijuana plantation idea.

By: [The Far Edge] » Tech Layoffs Surge to 300,000

[The Far Edge] » Tech Layoffs Surge to 300,000 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:00:33 +0000

[...] In contrast, it took five weeks for layoffs in the tech industry to hit the 200,000 mark, and four months for layoffs to hit 100,000 last December. The total number of layoffs since we began tracking since the financial crisis began [...]

By: [The Far Edge] » Tech Layoffs Surge to 300,000

[The Far Edge] » Tech Layoffs Surge to 300,000 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:00:32 +0000

By: Recession Proof Your Career - How to Survive In 2009 :: HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS OR BECOME AN EXPERT

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:34:29 +0000

[...] shed 1.2 million jobs. 10% of those jobs were Information Technology jobs. As of December, over 100,000 IT jobs had been lost and it doesn’t look like the situation is going to get better any time [...]

By: sandy Brenon

sandy Brenon — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:08:24 +0000

All these layoffs and yet Congress still allows 138,000 work visas each month and they want to increase that. Amazing.

By: Internet bedrijven leggen weer het loodje - maar langzamer : One Day Company

Internet bedrijven leggen weer het loodje - maar langzamer : One Day Company — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:26:19 +0000

[...] in de problemen en faillissementen. Voorlopig dieptepunt was de melding medio december dat er 100.000 banen in de Tech sector verloren zijn. Meest bekende slachtoffers zijn de site Pownce en ontslagen bij Mahalo , Yahoo en AOL. En dan [...]

By: StartupDiscountsBlog » Blog Archive » Snuggle up to customers

StartupDiscountsBlog » Blog Archive » Snuggle up to customers — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:28:12 +0000

[...] that many of the smartest are now networking and surfing the job boards due to recent layoffs. (Techcrunch has tech job losses surging past 100,000) For those of you still employed we’d recommend establishing or strengthening [...]

By: chetan

chetan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:03:50 +0000

People always hate to talk about when they are laid off. But as it has become every day’s news headline since Yahoo started it with cutting 1500 of its task force last year, now a need of platform has been in demand where people can express their selves in words how they are feeling about their company, whey the got laid off was that justified or not. And every thing they want to tell anonymously.

And http://www.layoffgossip.com is providing you that platform.

By: Clayton

Clayton — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:05:11 +0000

I was considered a top 2% performer at a prior employer and when they were bought out I was politley told they had people that did my job. They called back a couple of months later wanting me to return, I had taken a position as a VP with a smaller company and declined their offer. Some really good people are getting cut from the team. It’s the economy stupid, don’t automaticaly assume everyone is just dead weight. You can spot those by their resume. The good people have families and desrve better, make an effort to find a new star employee.

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Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:07:58 +0000

[...] Valley and other places getting slaughtered I’m glad I’m retired from the sysadmin business… Tech Layoffs Surge Past 100,000 [...]

By: Dallas Clark » Blog Archive » Even Google is feeling the Economic Pressure

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:05:26 +0000

[...] pressure with other companies announcing staff layoffs across the board. Techcrunch have recently announced layoffs have reached over 100 000 in the tech industry alone. AT&T having the largest with 12 000 [...]

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Weekend Roundup #28 » JaypeeOnline // Blogging News & Reviews — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:57:21 +0000

[...] With the US economy plunging like crazy this year, a lot of people lost their jobs and tech jobs are not exempted. According to TechCrunch’s Layoff Tracker, tech related job layoffs are now over 100,000. [...]

By: TECHNOLOGY « Daily Marauder

TECHNOLOGY « Daily Marauder — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:12:39 +0000

[...] unemployment claims as a result of mass layoffs (data isn’t in yet for November or December). (http://www.tech...rge-past-100000 [...]

By: TechCrunch, Top Tech News Websites Feeling Economic Crunch

TechCrunch, Top Tech News Websites Feeling Economic Crunch — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:51:50 +0000

[...] Lately TechCrunch has been following the effects of the economic crisis on the technology sector quite closely. Michael Arrington and his crew have been providing us with updates of the mounting numbers of tech layoffs and failing tech companies for the past month or so. Just the other day Erick Schonfeld wrote that technology related layoffs had surged past 100,000. [...]

By: Wayne Lambright

Wayne Lambright — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:10:38 +0000

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By: Tech-PR

Tech-PR — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:32:03 +0000

Recession may have been the factor but we cannot say it as the potent factor in tech lay offs. Otherwise why would we be praising the competitiveness of students. I guess the blame is on the employee’s part, partly.

By: Notes for 12/14/2008 at MasterMaq’s Blog

Notes for 12/14/2008 at MasterMaq’s Blog — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:20:32 +0000

[...] has been keeping track of layoffs in the tech industry, and on Friday they announced that over 100,000 people have lost their jobs since August 27th, [...]

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:05:11 +0000

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By: Foo

Foo — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:05:32 +0000

@Shannon

Totally agree. Every single “dead weight” comment is usually put forward by a moronic corksucker that isn’t a technologist, entrepreneur or startup veteran. What defines mediocre in the silicon valley? Mediocre here means exceptional anywhere else. Regardless of what you think of Real or Msft or google or yahoo, you don’t get thru the recruiting process bc they were hiring for dead weight. The sheer time it takes to recruit 2000 tech employees is massive. To say that they made that many accidental hires across the entire valley is just plain fraud. As for startups, there simply isn’t room or time to hire deadweight. It doesn’t exist. Sure people maybe obstructionist or unqualified for their positions but that is true across all corporate America since the industrial revolution.

The point is that if the economy were to suddenly turn the other direction and NASDAQ was headed toward 5000 again and your portfolio was hamstrung bc companies weren’t hiring fast enough to capture the opportunity those same assholes would be clammoring to make yahoo “hire faster!!!”

In other words the fuckwads who say stupid crap like “cut the deadweight” are usually people who only watch stock prices and care not a wit for delivering an actual product. They’ve never done it and never will. They are interlopers to a dev process they cannot understand. Which us why they rely on inane platitudes served to them by cnbc zombies like maria bartolromo.

By: Tech layoff roundup: 100K and rollin’ « Layoff Central

Tech layoff roundup: 100K and rollin’ « Layoff Central — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:16:35 +0000

[...] a comment » Not such good news as one can expect from the tech sector layoff tracker at TechCrunch – Dec especially has not been a [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:27:37 +0000

100,000 = The number of H1B’s hired in ‘08 + just 15K of the L1’s. If we’d suspend or eliminate the H1B program altogether and put strict controls on the L1 program we’d be fine. Of course, if we hadn’t let those programs balloon out of control to gut the upside for US engineers and facilitate outsourcing, the number of layoffs may have been much lower.

By: Someone

Someone — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:24:10 +0000

This it far short of the number of IT workers displaced, because it doesn’t include layoffs by non-IT companies. For instance, Hertz just laid off 500+ in Oklahoma City, and is closing their data center by outsourcing it overseas.

That number doesn’t count in the total above because Hertz isn’t what TechCrunch would call a Tech Company, but the effect on technology workers is the same.

The pain in the industry is much larger than TechCrunch is stating here.

As to whether it’s just a shedding of dead weight, I’d classify it as a shedding of ‘dead weight management’.

I’m noticing that only companies where the IT workers understood that management was either selfish or stupid have the collapses occurred.

For instance, at Chesapeake Energy, whose IT department is huge and the company even larger, they are committed to no layoff through 2010. The CEO has taken steps that have hammered the stock value, all to insure that he can continue to operate the company with the very long term in mind. Love it!

Tech companies? Who cares. Most of us work in the real world, where it’s all about quality of management.

By: Recession Guy

Recession Guy — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:38:07 +0000

Let’s see if we cross 1Million by end of 2009.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:59:06 +0000

Employers don’t want to pay out the X-mas bonuses, so they are firing pre-Christmas.