So I Got Laid Off A Few Months Ago And I Just Got A New Job, Here's What I Learned.

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NIKKA FUK A RESUME...EITHER IM GETTING HIRED OR AINT NOBODY GOING HOME

allow the white man to tell you that you need a resume, brehs aint you a man b?

allow a piece of paper to tell the white man your worth, brehs dont you have any dignity, b?

Dame, why you going by Benjamin on here?

 

[broller]

NIKKA FUK A RESUME...EITHER IM GETTING HIRED OR AINT NOBODY GOING HOME

allow the white man to tell you that you need a resume, brehs aint you a man b?

allow a piece of paper to tell the white man your worth, brehs dont you have any dignity, b?

Your post reminded me of this one below

White man paperwork is hilarious imma use it

Tell my bytch I love her we don’t need that white man paperwork

Working a job and it’s tax time man tell my boss I need that white man paperwork

Shopping at Costco and they checking receipts here you go my white man paperwork

Going to the strip club here bytch take take this white man paperwork

Driving and a cop pull me over here is my white man paperwork

OP gave good advice, though

 

[DJSmooth]

i just landed a job and ill be making 33% less than my old gig

took me ten months but at least its in a similar field

Congrats knew you would land something eventually

Some people out there will never work in their industry ever again.

 

[Ohene]

Congrats knew you would land something eventually

Some people out there will never work in their industry ever again.

Thanks fam

 

[Screwface Exchange]

Congrats brehs

 

[Mac Ten]

Congrats breh…


Watch them cacs and some of those black folks as well especially the ones that like to fake be a supervisor.

Get your paper and go home.


Also, document everything just in case they try to play dirty

 

[Deltron]

the ghosting shyt is bullshyt.

my current job ghosted an old coworker, when she applied. after a couple successful interviews. she told me they were negotiating the variables

When I asked on our end, the manager claims it was on the CEO to finalize an offer letter etc

the real truth was (i found out), was she was asking too much but didn't have the industry connections to back it up.

they could've easily just told her no, but they instead never bothered getting back to her

 

[JNew]

Nah man this is the worst time to do this.
When the writer’s guild went on strike producers realized that they could cut so many costs with reality tv because there’s no script, just an idea.

So to do that during the AI boom is a no no

AI isn’t some godly thing it’s just an algorithm that remembers. It might replace a few jobs in an industry but the task itself replacing is probably very mundane and low effort work.

The real reality is the GDP is slow if not negative. That means the work just isn’t there to justify hiring.

Most these job seekers are just creating work for themselves and probably will only hire some exceptional worker they don’t want competition to have.

 

[sayyestothis]

Glad u got something OP.

 

[null]

There’s a declining ROI on all conventional wisdom when it comes to the job market these days and IMO will only worsen when AI is fully unleashed.

Resumes (ATS optimized for each role)

maybe ATS being a hurdle is because AI is sub-optimal and is not working properly. i.e. it will improve as AI gets better.

possibly it is the number of applications that is the problem getting worse, one which ATS seeks to solve.

hence the real issue is job / candidate aggregation portals, like linkedin, indeed.

 

[null]

Nah man this is the worst time to do this.
When the writer’s guild went on strike producers realized that they could cut so many costs with reality tv because there’s no script, just an idea.

So to do that during the AI boom is a no no

"AI boom"?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/technology/ai-hallucinations-chatgpt-google.html

 

[Belize King]

100

Took me 6 months to find a job after I was laid off, and I have a master's degree in engineering. Only reason I probably got my new job is because a guy I used to work with was in the team I applied to, completely by chance. He put in a great word for me because I helped him a lot at our old job.

Try to be cool with everyone you work with, you never know when you'll need their help in the future.

This!

My boss at Weatherford 12 years back is now a Sr. Program Manager at Northrop Grumman. He appreciated everything I did back then and offered me a promotion but I had to leave for Southwest.

Fast forward last year. I applied for a job in Cali making 200K. I hit him up on LinkedIn and he tried to get me plugged in. Unfortunately the position wasn’t in his program but an adjacent program. Use LinkedIn and try to get everybody in your position and above info. You never know when you will need them.

Also, try to plug somebody worth it in a position if possible. It’s hard out here and we all are really just numbers. I know some of you IT boys are “1/1” architects but most of us are 1/10,000.

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

Glad u got something OP.

Thank you sir

 

[JT-Money]

This!

My boss at Weatherford 12 years back is now a Sr. Program Manager at Northrop Grumman. He appreciated everything I did back then and offered me a promotion but I had to leave for Southwest.

Fast forward last year. I applied for a job in Cali making 200K. I hit him up on LinkedIn and he tried to get me plugged in. Unfortunately the position wasn’t in his program but an adjacent program. Use LinkedIn and try to get everybody in your position and above info. You never know when you will need them.

Also, try to plug somebody worth it in a position if possible. It’s hard out here and we all are really just numbers. I know some of you IT boys are “1/1” architects but most of us are 1/10,000.

I don't see this happening in tech on a large scale. That's why our numbers are so small. Everyone else plays the game except us.