Some of these companies hire for the holiday rush. I wonder if they plan to work skeleton crews to the bone, or if this is just a tactic to hire a now-larger pool of more desperate workers at lower rates for seasonal employment.
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2025
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Skeleton crews ran by the 18yo manager who’s been there for 2 years, for the maximum shift where you don’t get a 30 minute break. Backfilled with desperate workers they can “at-will” cut later
Also smaller companies like the one I worked for that you'll never hear about. It laid off 17 people which was about 40% of the company just 3 weeks ago.
I work for a huge international company no one has ever heard of and they laid off hundreds of people and outsourced 100+ more over the last two years. All in the US, teams in other countries don't seem to have any changes. I have no idea how I survived, they wiped out my whole team except for me and one other person.
I've been job hunting for years off and on, at least 100 applications and I have only gotten a couple interviews for equally shitty companies. I can't see things getting better any time soon, only worse. The companies know they have us locked in and I already feel the pressure to give more and more to avoid the next round of layoffs. I do 3-5x the work of any other person in measurable ways and who fucking knows how much shit I do behind the scenes.
That sucks, I'm sorry. I knew our company was struggling a bit and then when they brought in a new CEO from one of those firms that comes in and 'restructures' companies I knew the jig was up. I'd been applying for jobs for the past 9 months prior to getting axed, but had no luck.
I did however get pinged by a company who thought I'd be a good fit and the first two interviews went pretty well yesterday so I've got a ray of hope. If I get the job it will actually be far better in the end because the pay is better and its much more aligned with what I always wanted to do but never had a chance to do in previous roles I've had.
If I don't get it though, I really don't have much hope that anything will turn up before next year for me.
Hope you get it!
“Just trust porky bro. If we spoil him rotten, give him all the tax exemptions in the world, he’ll be so delighted he’ll start hiring.”
“Wait…why is doing layoffs just because he feels like it? What do you mean the guy who loves money will dick over people to not have to spend money?”
Surely if the economy is 50% unemployed people who are starving and have no money American stability will be fine
I beg 
to start doing funny things
I wish, but just look at the United States, they're more likely to go Super Nazi Germany.
Dawg the entire west is
The Great Depression was around 25% unemployment. The 2008 Recession had ~13%.
At 50%, I could only assume the bourgeois are actually accelerationists.
I think they are in the sense they know the west is dying and they're trying to squeeze as much money they can out of it and don't care about the consequences
is there some info on non-white collar amazon/ups combo? automation in warehouses or sales volume (in orders, not in value)?
No idea. That must be climbing
Amazon hires swarms of warehouse workers right before the holidays, I'd bet a lot of those layoffs are office workers that are being replaced with shitty AI.
there was some tweet breakdown (of unknown veracity to be fair), that it's half white collar half warehouse, that + ups layoffs says something about shipping/logistics, but i haven't seen what exactly
I wonder if it's a sign that online purchases are not only slowing down, but are expected to perform even worse in the near future.
Or just replacing all the full-time (and potentially unionized) employees with temps and contractors who will receive even less benefits and job security.
This Is Good For The Economy
I'm hanging onto my job for dear life.