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SaraMG Nov 10, 2022

The lesson to take from the big layoffs at Twitter and Facebook is this: "The job will never love you back." No matter how much effort you put in, no matter how clever you are, no matter how long you've committed yourself to $COMPANY, when push comes to shove, you're just a replaceable part in the machine.

Keep your weekends and your evenings. Leave your bugs at work. Your time is for you, and your boss won't send you flowers.

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xcud Nov 10, 2022

@saramg This is generally true for large companies but not necessarily true for small ones. Don't take for granted the small business owners who make big sacrifices during tough economic times.

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Brian Schwarz

@xcud @saramg my experience early in my career with a small company is that when the company needed something, it was "hey, we're all family here" and when when employees needed something it was "this is a business and hard decisions have to be made."

That was also my first hard lesson about written contracts - when a contract doesn't say what happen when one party chooses not to fulfill the terms, it isn't worth much.