[HN Gopher] Show HN: Helping laid-off people find their next job ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: Helping laid-off people find their next job Author : tracyhenry Score : 54 points Date : 2022-11-08 17:12 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.layoff-sucks.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.layoff-sucks.com) | [deleted] | philip1209 wrote: | I like it! I wish there were some "resources for job seekers" - | maybe people could add services or products that are free for job | seekers | ferdowsi wrote: | > This list is an aggregation of public layoff lists where people | voluntarily signed up, plus people who sign up through us. | | You should be actively getting the consent of these people on | these lists. They consented to have their info in lists created | and shared by colleagues, not as part of your service. | JacobThreeThree wrote: | Legally speaking I think the service is protected here, so long | as they have an opt-out mechanism, and the contact information | they provide has been previously published publicly. There are | large companies, like Meltwater for instance, whose business | models are like this. | shishy wrote: | Your linkedin page links aren't working -- they go to layoff- | sucks.com/<linked-in-url> instead of just the linkedin url | tracyhenry wrote: | It works on my end - can you try some more? What's your | browser? | patchorang wrote: | I'm getting the same thing, not on every one, but every 5 or | so rows the linkedin link doesn't work. Chrome. | tacostakohashi wrote: | Layoffs don't suck, layoffs are great. | | It's a quick, guilt-free way to get out of a dead-end situation | without having to spend a multi-week notice period writing | documentation, handing over, and pretending you'll be lifelong | friends with a group of people you are sick of that don't have | your back. | winphone1974 wrote: | You appear to be contrasting layoffs to quitting, so wouldn't | you be the one who doesn't have your coworkers' backs? | kalupa wrote: | I'm sure glad I don't work with you ... | elcomet wrote: | That's only true if | | - you have enough money to be out of work for a while | | - you are not on a visa | | which is definitely not the case for many people. And what if | you like your job ? Then layoff does suck, no ? You seem to | think the alternative option to layoff is quitting, but what | about staying at the company ? | whatever1 wrote: | Layoffs great when you are in your 20s-30s. Specially if you | are single with established immigration status. | | Not so great when you are in your 50s with family, health | expenses & loans and nobody wants to hire you. | ill_pigeon wrote: | You are going to get completely fucked by GDPR if you're scraping | and rehosting people's personal data. This is not cool at all. | | I recommend you shut this down immediately and email everyone on | the list to apologise. | lazyasciiart wrote: | I don't believe that's true. Specifically, they say they are | republishing public lists that people have signed up for, for | largely the same purpose ("letting people know that I've been | laid off"), which is in the interest of the subject. They | should be notifying the people on the list, but there's nothing | intrinsically wrong with what they're doing. | remram wrote: | Luckily the GDPR is a bit more specific than "it was public | somewhere in the first place". | Aaronstotle wrote: | GDPR has no bite | rookhack wrote: | This is great (I mean it sucks that there are so many layoffs, | but the tool is really useful). Where are you sourcing all the | data from? | andrew_ wrote: | Not trying to poop in the cereal, but take a beat before adding | your name to the site; I'd be wary that this will be used to | blacklist a whole lot of folks. There's a large segment of tech | that doesn't see a tenure at Twitter as a positive, for example. | Maybe consider hiding the company name. | culopatin wrote: | So if you worked at Twitter for 3 years what do you do? Have a | 3 year gap in your resume? If the company doesn't want Twitter | employees you were not going to get a job there anyway. | winphone1974 wrote: | This is ridiculous, and I imagine it's only true for one | Twitter employee who's only been there for a very short time. | If this was the case how would you expect these people to get a | job if they got further down the funnel? Do you think a big | unexplained gap in your timeline is better then having worked | at Twitter? | lispisok wrote: | _There 's a large segment of tech that doesn't see a tenure at | Twitter as a positive_ | | Why? | blindhippo wrote: | Based on what I've read (here, reddit, and sadly the cesspool | that is Blind) Twitter engineers are lazy and the epitome of | the "rest and vest" career path. | | So, just software engineers being toxic gatekeepers based on | dubious opinions. | | I've noticed trying to interview at smaller companies with a | big tech company on my resume, I get a lot of weird pushback | - like the interviewer is actively trying to discard me just | to say they did. (anecdotal - so for what it's worth) | jade_liu wrote: | jedberg wrote: | This is an awesome tool and a great service you are providing! | | One note of feedback: When I first loaded the page, all I saw | were listings from Starry Internet, and when I reloaded it was | just Lyft. This makes it look like you only have people from one | company. | | My suggestion would be to randomize the listing on each page load | (or even bias the list towards diversity of company and role). | Then people can see the depth of the people signed up and start | exploring filters. | xwowsersx wrote: | And just "groupon" for me | tracyhenry wrote: | Thx for the feedback! The list is already randomized on every | load (from a given starting point). We'll make it more | randomized. For now, you can filter the companies, and use the | pagination to see more companies. | datalopers wrote: | So recruiters can contact you? That's called having a LinkedIn or | an email address on github. | | Recruiters are the ones being laid off the most aggressively | anyway. | umeshunni wrote: | It's meant to help recruiters find people who are actively | looking for a new role. | andirk wrote: | If I was running a successful tech company, these layoffs would | be a godsend. Plenty of amazing devs let go simply to lower | headcount costs. I'd be poaching this list ASAP! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-11-08 23:00 UTC)