Remember when I said, back in the Bethesda Starfield reveal, what was the cost in humanity?
This is one of those hidden costs. As a Software Developer who was once fired during an economic overturn, the moment you receive the letter/meeting/news your head start spinning. What am I going to do now? where do I go? What about my bills? Do I get a severance package? (I didn't)
What do I want to do now? Do I want to continue working on these circumstances? Do switch branches and go web development? (in the case of the Unity Software engineers whom are extremely specific)? Do I sell everything and go live in a mountain planting volcanic parsley? (I actually thought that in Iceland)
Then again, finding a new job that pays the same or better with a better environment (or at least the same) is hard. In the US people uproot their families and move and that is that.
But in places like South America it is really complicated to move from one city to another.
Thankfully, I do hope the 1000 engineers that were layoff may find remote work that do not force them to move out of their place.
I have this irrational fear, that more and more companies are going to take the highroad and start firing people left and right, because the Metaverse/NFT/Crypto thingy didn't pan out.
And I believe that the next one to be hit is SquareEnix and Ubisoft.
I'm still reeling from watching all my friends and ex-coworkers get fired over this entire week. I guess the good news is that A LOT of fired Unity peeps are in Europe, and Unity is required by law to cough up a huge amount of severance money, so they'll have a decent cushion to land on? Silver linings and all I guess? Bleh.
Thank you for another excellent article! Good luck with the cursed child and knee, I hear speedruns have excellent medicinal properties ^_^
Remember when I said, back in the Bethesda Starfield reveal, what was the cost in humanity?
This is one of those hidden costs. As a Software Developer who was once fired during an economic overturn, the moment you receive the letter/meeting/news your head start spinning. What am I going to do now? where do I go? What about my bills? Do I get a severance package? (I didn't)
What do I want to do now? Do I want to continue working on these circumstances? Do switch branches and go web development? (in the case of the Unity Software engineers whom are extremely specific)? Do I sell everything and go live in a mountain planting volcanic parsley? (I actually thought that in Iceland)
Then again, finding a new job that pays the same or better with a better environment (or at least the same) is hard. In the US people uproot their families and move and that is that.
But in places like South America it is really complicated to move from one city to another.
Thankfully, I do hope the 1000 engineers that were layoff may find remote work that do not force them to move out of their place.
I have this irrational fear, that more and more companies are going to take the highroad and start firing people left and right, because the Metaverse/NFT/Crypto thingy didn't pan out.
And I believe that the next one to be hit is SquareEnix and Ubisoft.
I'm still reeling from watching all my friends and ex-coworkers get fired over this entire week. I guess the good news is that A LOT of fired Unity peeps are in Europe, and Unity is required by law to cough up a huge amount of severance money, so they'll have a decent cushion to land on? Silver linings and all I guess? Bleh.
Thank you for another excellent article! Good luck with the cursed child and knee, I hear speedruns have excellent medicinal properties ^_^
With all this talk of the meta verse, or whatever the future holds, I'd highly recommend Tad Williams' 'Otherland' series.