Tech Industry job layoffs looking scary

[Blessings]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-19/nike-lays-off-some-workers-in-shakeup-of-technology-division

 

[Mirin4rmfar]

These colleges want to keep the pipeline open to International students since they pay full tuition.

College is a business, why not go for over seas money lol

 

[Mirin4rmfar]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coinbase-suffers-cyber-attack-as-oversees-employees-were-bribed-to-steal-customer-data-c74b2840

Genius lol....you pay some Indian tech guy 10K a year .. someone offers him a million cut get strongarm for 20 million and have to spend another 400 million....smart move lol

 

[bnew]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coinbase-suffers-cyber-attack-as-oversees-employees-were-bribed-to-steal-customer-data-c74b2840

Genius lol....you pay some Indian tech guy 10K a year .. someone offers him a million cut get strongarm for 20 million and have to spend another 400 million....smart move lol

Coinbase Global Inc.’s stock fell Thursday after it said it’s working with law enforcement to track down an unknown “threat actor” that paid its contractors working in support roles for the company outside the U.S. to obtain personal information about its customer base.

hopefully this becomes a industry wide problem.

 

[Sir ZDuke]

I hope she doesn’t disregard this feedback. Being silent in meetings/ coming across as unengaged can be career suicide depending on the role you’re in. You’re pretty much pigeonholing yourself as a role player rather than a leader. lol sometimes I wonder if people want to win this corporate game or if they just want to be martyrs? With how things are moving with AI integration into the workplace(sensible or not) , they may get their wish sooner rather than later.

 

[Ohene]

I hope she doesn’t disregard this feedback. Being silent in meetings/ coming across as unengaged can be career suicide depending on the role you’re in. You’re pretty much pigeonholing yourself as a role player rather than a leader. lol sometimes I wonder if people want to win this corporate game or if they just want to be martyrs? With how things are moving with AI integration into the workplace(sensible or not) , they may get their wish sooner rather than later.

Being vocal can also be career suicide
I speak from experience

shyt has nothing you do with leadership
They want you to be vocal so they can criticize and read you a lot of the time. The right thing is to comment but be very selective and pick your battles

 

[Sir ZDuke]

Being vocal can also be career suicide
I speak from experience

shyt has nothing you do with leadership
They want you to be vocal so they can criticize and read you a lot of the time. The right thing is to comment but be very selective and pick your battles

No doubt there’s some nuance to it and everything done in moderation. I think you’re looking at this from the perspective of someone higher on the totem pole. The chick in the tweet seems young and early career because no one is asking you why you’re too quiet when you’re senior, you wouldn’t even be in that position if your presence was under question. At her stage, she benefits more from being visible and being seen as contributing, engaged member of the team rather than being cautious and insular. I’ve been on both sides of this feedback. When I was on the receiving end early in my career, rather than bytch like she’s doing, I realized perception was indeed reality and course corrected.

 

[Blessings]

I hope she doesn’t disregard this feedback. Being silent in meetings/ coming across as unengaged can be career suicide depending on the role you’re in. You’re pretty much pigeonholing yourself as a role player rather than a leader. lol sometimes I wonder if people want to win this corporate game or if they just want to be martyrs? With how things are moving with AI integration into the workplace(sensible or not) , they may get their wish sooner rather than later.

100% Facts…everything you said

We don’t have the full context (her role, type of meeting, etc).
What you said would at least have her consider what her supervisor’s concerns.
I don’t understand people in the workforce who are inconsiderate of others (especially the people they report to or the stakeholders they serve). People forget it’s a business and they’re supposed to be providing value to the business.


Supervisor might be racist but Occam’s Razor and my experience is signals her lack of engagement is an issue at work. Her supervisor gave her polite and she took it as a racial slight.

I hope she doesn’t get gassed by the likes and comments.

Molly’s character in Insecure is close to modern/realistic example of maneuvering through white supremacy in office and corporate politics.

Don’t be like Rasheeda (the black intern on s01e03)

 

[Ohene]

No doubt there’s some nuance to it and everything done in moderation. I think you’re looking at this from the perspective of someone higher on the totem pole. The chick in the tweet seems young and early career because no one is asking you why you’re too quiet when you’re senior, you wouldn’t even be in that position if your presence was under question. At her stage, she benefits more from being visible and being seen as contributing, engaged member of the team rather than being cautious and insular. I’ve been on both sides of this feedback. When I was on the receiving end early in my career, rather than bytch like she’s doing, I realized perception was indeed reality and course corrected.

not a one size fits all situation but i hear you

You’re generally right. If herher peers are being active and vocal she should be too cause clearly that’s the culture of the team

 

[Blessings]

not a one size fits all situation but i hear you

You’re generally right. If herher peers are being active and vocal she should be too cause clearly that’s the culture of the team

Wonder if there’s a book or podcast for young black professionals to guide and help us excel through the BS corporate politics.

A lot of folks are misguided, narcissists because they identify from a marginalized group. Only view a situation through their lens smh.

 

[Gritsngravy]

Illinois Tech Becomes the First U.S. University Approved to Establish a Campus in India​

Illinois Tech Becomes the First U.S. University Approved to Establish a Campus in India

CHICAGO, IL, USA / MUMBAI, INDIA—May 6, 2025—In a bold and historic move, Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech), Chicago’s only tech-focuse

www.iit.edu

I’m not surprised, they basically took over a lot of these colleges, undergrad and grad

 

[Gritsngravy]

AI is essentially a concentrated mastery of historical data, and the precise mapping of questions to answers.

Yes. It is automation on steroids.

But here’s where the problem lies.

AI to the powers that be, is a virtual entity that should be able to decide for itself, the appropriate approach to deal with day to day tasks.

At root of this answer is a simple IF statement:

If conditions match criteria one, then do this, only if the match is 100% or x%. This is evident in the AI apps like Alexa. Or Siri. Where they had a database of voices from different countries and regions. To nail down the many different ways a human can say a word or sentence.

The one thing that I kinda questioned about ai is the assumption the human data is correct and non bias

So are they really giving the right answers, what ever discover it makes based on human knowledge is that discovery correct?

 

[Gritsngravy]

I work for the railroad. It's a great low six figure gig (120-140k after the first year*) but the railroads have been trying to make it a one man crew for a minute. Bear in mind it was four of five man crews 40 years ago. There's no escape anywhere. The time to stop this was decades ago but all the white collar workers laughed and pointed at those lazy union workers "getting what they deserve."

Capitalism has no pet worker. And that's what you all are at the end of the day, workers. And we're all replaceable. I hate some of you had to find out this way. Good luck.

*Be prepared to work so much you won't really be able to enjoy any of that.

This is why I think right now the fight should be to force them to lower property and food prices

If we gon be broke then at least make the necessities widely available

 

[JT-Money]

 

[JT-Money]