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Ouch. Imagine being let go just a few weeks from vesting. Doesn't seem fair to let someone work for months and months in anticipation of their big prize and then yank it away at the last minute.

You want the government to force employers to provide a social safety net rather than the government providing it directly?

The problem isn't that people can be fired, it's that their food, housing, and medical care are all dependent on or provided through their employer.


> A job today isn’t (*and shouldn’t be*) any guarantee of a job tomorrow.

This is nonsense and shouldn’t be normalized.


In germany you have the opposite and it is also nonsense.

You have to work with people that do literally nothing (usefull to the goal of the company) and they can't be fired.

Companies are afraid to hire. Young people only get short therm contracts. If a company needs to cut jobs it has to keep employees with children over the others.

What society will be more productive?


What makes you think that productivity is the most important goal? I’ll take Germany way over Silicon Valley bullshit any time of the day.

You have actually more to give if you are more productive.

Germany acts like money grows on trees. Reality will come and hit hard.


> Reality will come and hit hard.

Like it hit Block and Oracle workers already?


A bit harder unfotunately.

Less than 20 million people in germany pay more taxes than they get money from the government (if you consider state employees as getting money from the government). With a population of over 80 million.

Think about what happens if that is not financially viable anymore.


The ability to fire people without notice is not Silicon Valley bullshit - it is how the labor market works in almost all places in the entire world.

It is ridiculous to think that either party to an employment relationship should be forced to participate longer than they wish to.


Normalized? It’s how things work everywhere. The burden of proof is on you to specify why you think this is “nonsense” and on what basis you justify violatiny the consent of one of the parties.

Giving any kind of notice about layoffs while expecting employees to continue working is just bad for everyone.

The employees stress out about whether they're going to be impacted. Nobody gets much work done as they update their resumes and prepare for the worst. The best people start looking for other opportunities and find them. If specific employees are told they're going to be laid off, some seek revenge.

Much better to immediately notify those impacted, revoke their access, give them generous severance instead of expecting them to work, and let everyone else know they're safe.


You immediately notify to the affected persons with the given notice period. This is how it's done in civilized countries.

Maybe they could be kept on the payroll without access to actually work.

But the real problem is any law that would deport someone 30 days after they were laid off, even if they had been working for years. That should be 6 months minimum.


Keeping them on the payroll also enables companies to easily manage and extend medical insurance. I’m pretty sure that what you propose is what a lot of companies actually do, too. They keep them on the payroll for the duration of their severance but do not expect them to actually work.

Agree that no one should be getting deported on 30 days because they got laid off.


I've seen this type of thing with OsmAnd too. My hypothesis is that someone messed up when drawing the map, and made the offramp an extension of the highway. But I haven't actually verified this.


Yo, we decided to build a dam in the creek behind your house. We're not sure what the impact will be on your house and backyard, so watch out. You've got three days, construction has already started.


It was gonna cost 1 million of your tax dollars to build the levee protecting your house, but we're saving you money by building it out of sticks. We'll send a dude out to throw a few more on every few days.


7 years to estimate the impact? I'm guessing it would take a professional an afternoon.


About the same time it'd take me to build Twitter.


Let's hope the beavers allocate sufficient funding to maintain the dam.


I'm not driving, officer, I'm traveling!


Except the ads don't show up anywhere "on the internet", they only show up on the photo editing site.


The photo editing site was "MetaAI", the display site was Instagram.

They may have the same parent, but are distinct entities.


The author mentioned closing their VPN port so people would stop trying to break in, but this also cut off the author's access.

Tailscale allows you to connect to your home network without opening a port to allow incoming connections.


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