Laid-off Google employees turn to Discord server with 18,000 members for support

From what I've heard, many tech companies are slashing perks and benefits.

Was this discord server made available to all the chefs and masseuses and personal trainers and cleaners and van drivers that are losing their jobs, after living in RVs and vans near the campus?

Pretty disappointed it's not signal or Mastodon or literally anything other than Discord.

Why would google employees know how to use mastodon?

Curious why?

I feel like it was a missed opportunity for BigCo to showcase their in-house AI by providing chat support for said laid off people.

this would be the headline: "callous tech company lays off tech company then trials unvetted chat bots on them"

along with all the examples of it giving awful advice

I think it's worse than just fire by email lol

There is some irony in this as Discord runs on Google Cloud.