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#jobs · 28 voices
What people keep running into
- Massive tech layoffs create job insecurity (38 voices)
- Can't verify if salary raise matches inflation (1 voice)
- Fear of AI replacing workers at job (18 voices)
- Gig workers juggle multiple apps with no benefits or stability (2 voices)
- Retail shift cuts lead to empty shelves and staff burnout (1 voice)
Voices
- How do you even pick a new direction when the thing you trained for years to do doesn't need as many people anymore? Freelance copywriting work dried up over the last six months, clients that used to need five drafts now just want one AI pass and light editing, and they're not wrong that it's…
- Does anyone actually use something to check if a raise kept up with inflation, or am I supposed to just guess based on vibes and whatever's in the news? Got bumped three percent in my review last month and felt good about it until I ran the actual numbers against what rent and groceries have done…
- Maybe I'm overthinking this but this diesel import deal has me checking fuel prices every morning before I even load the truck. Last time it spiked like this I ate the cost for three months because the client contracts don't adjust that fast. Everyone at the yard keeps saying it won't be as bad this…
- My husband found out his employer got flagged in that visa program suspension news last week, the one everyone's been talking about. He's been on the sponsorship track for almost four years now. Four years of paperwork, lawyer fees, renewed every time like clockwork, and now nobody at the company…
- Heard the whole chain shut down overnight on the radio on my way to work. My cousin worked at the one near the highway for six years, closing shifts mostly, knew every regular by their order. She got a text at 5am telling her not to bother coming in. No severance conversation yet, nobody even knows…
- our support team went from nine thousand people to five thousand this year and corporate keeps calling it efficiency gains from ai agents. im one of the five thousand left and every week it feels less like a job and more like im just waiting for my turn. the bot doesnt even get tired
- lost my third website client this year to one of those ai site builders, this one even sent me a screenshot of the thing they built in an afternoon like i was supposed to be impressed too. five years building actual custom sites and now im apparently competing with a dropdown menu and a template…
- Warehouse cut my shift from five days to three after they brought in more automated sorting machines so now my paycheck is basically a coin flip every two weeks. Keep overdrafting because I forget which bills hit before payday. Anyone know a budget app that actually works when your income changes…
- my actual job title is still support specialist but for the past month all i do is read the chatbots answers and click thumbs up or thumbs down. there used to be nine of us on the queue. now its me and one other guy grading a robot that is clearly being trained to not need us either
- Quarterly estimated taxes were due last week and I did the math wrong again and ended up owing way more than I set aside, and since freelance income already bounces around every month I genuinely cannot keep guessing what percentage to put away, so does anything calculate what you owe as you go…
- Got called into an unscheduled meeting this morning and walked out holding a severance packet I do not understand AT ALL. A stack of legal language and a deadline to sign by Friday. Is there anything that reviews these clause by clause so I know if I'm leaving money on the table?? Not signing…
- How do you figure out what to charge as a freelancer? Picked up photo editing on the side because my hours got cut at my regular job, and I'm pretty sure I'm underpricing myself badly compared to everyone else. Right now I just guess a number and hope nobody laughs.
- kroger near me cut the overnight stocking shifts this week and now the shelves look half empty by dinner time every night. cashier told me everyone on nights got offered online order picking instead and half of them just quit rather than switch schedules like that
- the store i work at added more self checkout kiosks this month and quietly cut two cashier shifts a week to cover the cost. corporate calls it streamlining in the store meetings. nobody says the word layoff but everyone on the floor knows exactly what it means when your hours get cut in half like…
- been going back and forth with a recruiter for two weeks about a role and then dead silence. found out today through their own linkedin post that they got cut in the layoffs. so now im not just jobless, the person doing the hiring is too. feels like the floor keeps moving
- uber just announced cutting 3300 corporate jobs and citigroup started cutting too, back to back in the same week. every department slack channel im in just has people quietly going idle one by one, nobody says anything anymore, its like watching a light dim through a wall
- half my linkedin feed is turning into 'open to work' banners and its all people from my own company who havent said anything about it internally yet. feels like watching layoffs happen in slow motion before its even officially announced
- saw nike was cutting 1400 people on the news before my friend who works there even got the internal memo. she found out i already knew before she did and that conversation was so uncomfortable
- uber laid off 10 percent of the company today and i keep replaying the slack message from my manager that just said can you hop on a call in five minutes like i didnt already know what that meant the second i saw it
- Zillow cut around 500 people this week. My sister works in a completely different department there and she still hasnt heard anything about whether shes safe
- Google cutting more roles again. Two friends there. Both just waiting to see who gets the email next.
- If you are entry level in anything remotely administrative or data entry, please consider learning something more. I am not trying to be harsh. Over the last six months I watched 40 people on my company's operations team get replaced by one person managing an AI system.
- my company laid off the entire junior dev team last week. they said it was "restructuring" but everyone knows it's because they're switching to AI coding tools. i'm senior but genuinely scared i'm next
- Three gig apps running at once. No sick days, no PTO, no benefits. I didn't choose to be a "freelancer." I just can't find anything stable.
- I was a paralegal for 9 years. My firm just reduced our department from 12 people to 3, citing AI tools that can do contract review in minutes. I am 41 and do not know what skills to even pivot to. Has anyone successfully retrained after a white-collar AI layoff? What actually worked?
- Got laid off three weeks ago as part of a restructuring. No warning, minimal severance. Six years at that company. 😞 I know the market is rough but I am not ready to give up on tech. What is actually working in the job search right now? Pivots, connections, anything.
- The question has shifted from wondering if AI will take my job to realizing it already took my coworker's. I'm watching people I respect get phased out and I'm not sure what to do with that feeling.
- Three people I know got let go last week. Same story each time: AI can do it faster, sorry. I don't know what the plan is for everyone whose job quietly disappears. Nobody seems to be talking about that part.