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Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).
US Tech Companies Starting to Pull Job Offers (link)...
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Can't get to the link here, but I think this is going to get ugly. In defense there are cases where certain skill sets are getting 50% over what the contract allows. Employers have to be paying out of pocket for this, unless they are completely abusing regulations (prob the case many times)
Some of the problem stems from: if you have a STEM degree and can get paid the same way to sit on you, why would you even need a real job. These companies start to realize they are getting zero productivity from these workers. They get laid off as companies pinch pennies to weather the economic downturn, markets get flooded with candidates, the workers that landed overpaying jobs get let go, market gets further flooded. It's going to create some interesting "non-traditional" pressure on the recession
Some of the problem stems from: if you have a STEM degree and can get paid the same way to sit on you, why would you even need a real job. These companies start to realize they are getting zero productivity from these workers. They get laid off as companies pinch pennies to weather the economic downturn, markets get flooded with candidates, the workers that landed overpaying jobs get let go, market gets further flooded. It's going to create some interesting "non-traditional" pressure on the recession
American Deplorable
Elite
There are plenty of labor positions open for them to switch to.
Labor as in blue collar?
Nayat
Elite
Learn to weld, amirite?
AgEngDawg
Legendary
Could do some of them a world of good.
Just started learning TIG welding.
Checking in with a hiring freeze in tech...
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