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This is a good place to remind tech workers that they should not get comfy in big tech.

Older workers are a massive liability. They will try to get rid of you and they will prefer foreign replacements on the younger side.

They will also claim that they need to increase diversity while doing it.

Everyone is celebrating the fact that most big tech companies are no longer run by Americans. It’s because the system is designed to discriminate against you and get rid of you.

My personal theory is highly liberal tech workers are going to turn into the new “Dey Terk Ur Jerbs” flyover country citizens they spent the last 20 years laughing at.

“Look at the racist losers who hate immigrants! What morons voting for repuvlicans.”

Look in the mirror at 45, it’s you now. And watch how you get laughed at next.

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US workers at Google have already been fired. Non-US haven't. The number of US workers is known. The number of intended firings is known. The ratio of US workers to Non-US is known.

Doing the math the conclusion is that non-US workers will be disproportionately affected by the layoff. I think the layoffs are foolish, but they aren't an offshoring plan.

That job you can't be fired from, that ensures employment as long as you want? It's in the public sector.

But Republicans especially and Americans generally are allergic to the public sector.

So really you want that lucrative highly competitive job without the competition.

If after 20 years at a company at 45 years old some kid from a developing countries is better than you at your job that's on you.

Agreed, I see plenty of tech jobs in the public and non-profit sectors.

Problem is that they're not paying what would be considered acceptable to a big tech worker.

I saw a 20-something on TikTok saying that she feels like her compensation should be ~500K/year. That's a rate at our org where you're talking about multiple exec salaries combined. It's not based in reality for the vast majority of the country. This feels a bit like golden handcuffs.

> That job you can't be fired from, that ensures employment as long as you want? It's in the public sector.

No, its not. You can be fired from public sector jobs. Many of them (outside of high level ones, e.g., where you are or serve at the pleasure of some elected official) have due process protections, but people can and do get fired from even those.

  > That job you can't be fired from, that ensures employment as long as you want? It's in the public sector.

No wonder the public sector is known for inefficiency, incompetency and lower pay.

Once you realise it's just a more palatable social security system you see why governments don't care about its shortcomings.

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