I've been watching my friends in the tech industry lose their jobs ever since I started in '98. We have a layoff or two, or three, or four every year it seems. They don't discriminate either. It doesn't matter if you have 25 - 35 - 40 years with the company and it was your first job out of high school. The guy who got me on in '98, a family friend, was laid off last year after 35 years with the company and about to retire. My good friend was laid off and her last day was on the same day she got inducted into "club 25" for 25 years of service. All of our jobs went to India, the Phillipines and other 3rd world countries. Now the big push is to cut costs and do everything cheaper.
All a fella can do is work hard, pray...and comb his hair.
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