I was laid off from Atlassian this/last week. Since then I've been playing Satisfactory for 12 hours a day.

Crazy thing is, I delivered optimizations that saved 1m USD over the last 12 months, with another optimization in-flight that would save another 1m USD. I thought that was enough to protect me from layoffs/PIPs - I guess no one was counting.

AI is just an excuse for layoffs which IMO CEOs are trying to use to recover share prices from the SaaS-pocalypse. Looks like layoffs aren't hitting the same for stock prices as they once were.

Being ghosted, hazed, and otherwise abused. No one is hiring at restaurants, etc either. A recession has probably started.

Interviewing 4 times just to get ghosted.