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  I know my job could fire me at any point.  I know I could be laid off at any point.  I don’t cherish my job and I always have a back up plan ready for when it fails.  And I’ve gone through and looked at who they laid off.  Most were random financial, marketing, and design staff.  They all made good salaries.  Mean while factory workers and low income workers get laid off while making 1/3rd of the salary and no one bats an eye
context: I honestly agree, but don’t boo me just yet. Big tech companies usually are very departmentalised, so you have entire teams of people working on every little thing. If you’ve ever done group projects in college, you’d probably know that in low-stakes team settings you usually have 3/10 people doing 90% of the work. A lot of people are also GROSSLY overpayed. I live in the Bay Area and know the salary disparities between small and large businesses. If you are a nobody at Google you’re making $100k+ these days almost regardless of your actual use to the company. MANY people are also network hires, who just happen to have friends/family at the company. Sure, you may not be rich with that money here, but you’re still better off than a person doing the same job at a smaller company AND you’ll have those big name companies on your resume, which is almost guaranteed to get you hired quickly. If you can demonstrate that you’re a valuable employee - most of the time you’ll keep your job. If you’re not, well, welcome to reality. >
  
  So you have no sympathy for people losing their jobs, cool. Also how do you know people had large salaries >
  
  So there are people that make 6 figures at Twitter and there are people that make under that. You have to realize that at even at a giant company like Twitter not everyone is paid equally. You also have to consider what the person making 100k a year family situation is. If they make that and have a family of 4 it’s different if they have a salary of that and are single. >
  
  I personally know several people at FAANG companies who are entry level, make over 150k, and can't tell me what they do on a day to day basis (not because it's a secret, they actually don't know what to do) and they've been there for almost a year. All these people I know love their jobs and I don't blame them at all. >
  
  with every one wanting to work from home something has to give. gone are the days that only factory jobs get sent to other countries. >
  
  Some of the tech workers dug their own grave.  They claim they get their job done in just a few hours each day and spend the rest reading reddit.  Enough people say that it's bound that higher ups will start thinking they have to many people.  
  Really this just proves again their is no recession proof job that is 100 percent safe. >
  
  Besides medicine. >
  
  Even medicine is not a fool proof answer.  Elective surgery decreases and people don't go in for minor injuries as often since they can't afford the part health insurance doesn't cover.  Older people don't move into nursing homes as soon instead they move in with their kids.  
  I know the small local hospitals really suffered last recession.  Now I will admit with covid that might be less of an issue than it was in the past >
  
  Damn dude, what an insensitive post. A lot of these jobs are in HCOL areas, so of course salaries are high. It’s expensive to live in SF, NYC, Seattle, Boston, etc. I make healthy 6-figures but I still can’t afford to live in the city because shits expensive. Bought a fixer upper in the burbs and commute 90+ mins to work. 
  People getting laid off are at risk of not being able to put food on the table or becoming homeless. Many of these people are older and have families. Idk where you get the idea that of the tens of thousands of laid off workers, it’s all young adults with useless jobs??? 
  What do you do for work, and why do you think you’re more important than someone with an “obscure marketing role” at a tech company? Or that your livelihood has more value? Smh