Honestly I'm surprised there are 2400 employees who have stuck around this long, waiting for the other shoe to drop. How could they not see the obvious implosion coming? The proverbial tidal wave of ugly news has been steady for months now.
I for one wouldn't mind being unemployed for 3 months.
A 3-month hole in your resume will be something you'd have to explain to your future employers for the rest of your life.
Huh? People take time off between jobs all the time.
Whenever there are unreasonable rules and you really do want to get around them, all you have to do is find a way to demonstrate your talent sufficiently that people will bend them for you.
Based on one friend of mine... he's patching up his resume while waiting for his manager to offer a severance package.
Hiring doesn't happen overnight and it's much more difficult when you're doing it actively, as opposed to passively responding to the recruitment vultures. Especially when there's a time crunch, since severance doesn't last forever and hiring doesn't happen overnight.
How many of those Meetup employees are sitting on, or exercised, worthless WeWork options?
Talk about no lube...