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  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.
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.