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> Another is sadness at the loss of prominence in the company, since I have to re-orient myself on this new team, where two experts are already prominent as leaders

Nobody gives a fuck about you OP. It's all in your head. Also you work for a company. It's a legal entity which gives zero fucks to anything except its own stock price.

> I'm not willing to leave the company because its stock 6x'ed last year.

This is all the metrics that matter. Everything else is stories that you invented to have some purpose in life.

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There are less horrible places than the one you apparently occupy. FYI.

Can you explain more? What exactly did I say which was incorrect?

Yet OP is the one who got a promotion, not a layoff. Good-boy points aren't transferable to other companies - but they do have value.

I was not talking specifically about OP.

I was talking about generally. Everyone runs around thinking they are of prominence and blah blah blah.

In realty nobody has time to think about someone else.

The prominence is entirely in their own head.

People just don't get it.

Promotions and layoffs are more of less random. If your company is doing bad nothing is stopping you from layoffs. If you are in Nvidia nothing is stopping your from getting your stocks go boom.

Or your company can be like Apple, with a $100B warchest, and still do layoffs!

Your view of prominence does not line up with what I've experienced for myself and seen for others.

Is that statistically significant though? You think prominence is correlated with inverse layoffs.

I say the market has more correlation on your layoff or promotions than your prominence.

Again prominence is completely subjective and not measurable. Maybe you can say people who don't get laid off are more prominent.

Or people who get promoted are more prominent. But you can't measure prominence in an objective way.

Layoffs are a frequent outcome of product launch failures regardless of overall market movements.

>But you can't measure prominence in an objective way.

Nor can you measure friendships or love or anything else that is inherently subjective yet has a marked effect on your life.

How do you know what your management consider of prominence and your version of prominence is the same? Do all managers even align in same definition of prominence?

See previous reply re: friendships, love.

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