There has been a major cultural shift - the great disillusionment. Gone are the days when top employees remained loyal and even fanatical about staying at “special workplaces” (i.e. Google) It’s become clear that in order to ensure some form of safety one must have offers from other companies handy at all times. But isn't it exhausting? What are some of the surefire(hopefully scalable) ways you folks manage to prospect(find) job openings, apply to dozens(hundreds) of them weekly/daily, obtain referrals for them and secure interviews? Any other recommendations to achieve peace of mind during layoffs? #severance #layoff #google #peaceofmind #TC #maximizeTC
Retire
When you join that random invite with your manager and HR joins, you resign on the spot before they get a word out 🧠
Wrong. You miss severance.
That’s the joke
Turn to a different industry or public sector if you want to be "safe" from layoffs. Tech (big tech in particular) has never and will never been layoff "proof". Its high risk, high reward. Companies dont pay you hundreds of thousands of dollars to sit on a computer typing code for you to be risk adverse. Layoffs also has never been about performance, but rather a business and accounting decision.
Meditate and dissociate yourself from the belief that you are your job. Develop an identity outside of your work and have good financial habits.
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Work in a role that have direct, significant visible impact to customers. Work for the gov or for roles that support the gov or works with gov.
Be mercenary, just like the employers. Loyalty goes both ways. But if they don't want to hold their end of the bargain, neither should you.
Become the CEO
Start your own company
3 things and I haven't done either very well. 1/your job isn't about your job or your customers, necessarily. It's about making your boss successful and his/her life easier. Make sure you know what that is and do it. A lot. 2/ let him or her know what you've done... And find polite ways to make sure your skip knows it too. Don't assume that good work is recognized and rewarded. 3/ save and invest everything you can. Want to buy a bmw? Get a Honda. Want to gift a channel bag? Get a knockoff in China town. Hit your FU number as fast as you can. Freedom is the ultimate flex. If I spent the last 15 years dumping all my spare change into the market, I could walk away right now. I can tell you that nothing I spent it on over the years has bought me any pleasure remotely equal to that.
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> It’s become clear that in order to ensure some form of safety one must have offers from other companies handy at all times. This conclusion is bonkers.
lol and OP was asking for 'hopefully' scalable solutions too 🤦
Just curious - why is the above conclusion bonkers? Please suggest a better way, preferably the one that’s under your own control and that has a potential to be scalable