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   Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 21:48:13 JST Chris Wiegman

   One more tidbit from The Repository’s coverage of the #WordPress layoffs at Automattic:

   “95% of those let go were age 40 or over.”

   https://www.therepository.email/automattic-cuts-16-of-workforce-in-latest-round-of-layoffs-amid-legal-and-internal-turmoil

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     Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 21:50:00 JST Chris Wiegman

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     “a Senior Quality Engineer on WooCommerce, said his entire team was let go.”

     as if the quality of WooCommerce can afford to get any worse?

     #WordPress

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     Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 21:57:14 JST Chris Wiegman

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     • kel

     @kel To date I think I’ve gotten lucky here as I’m in my mid-40s. I saw it some with questions on my resume last time I looked, but it didn’t seem to slow me. Going forward I’m probably fucked like everyone else. Only good thing is at least I don’t have any debt, not even a mortgage for the place we own. Hopefully that softens the blow a bit.

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     kel (kel@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 21:57:15 JST kel

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     @chris

     I am not paranoid!

     The deathly silence from every single fucking company I have bothered to get in touch with, like *every single one*, screams ageist pricks!

     When they fuck it all up with AI and need people who can actually understand what is going on - if that ever happens I suppose - I am going to charge a day rate that will make their blood curdle - 5 figures! A day!

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     Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 22:02:01 JST Chris Wiegman

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     • Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf

     @rgulick all too true

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     Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf (rgulick@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 22:02:03 JST Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf

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     @chris

     Ah! So, mostly just the people most likely to question Matt's decisions.

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     Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 22:07:07 JST Chris Wiegman

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     • kel

     @kel I’m hoping I get a bit luckier after moving to management but I get it, for sure. Lately I feel like I’m just in a holding pattern for the crash.

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     kel (kel@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 22:07:08 JST kel

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     @chris

     My advice, feel free to ignore:

     Once you get over 50 - you're done!

     Make sure you are in a solid permanent position with a proper pension before you reach that next decade.

     Don't think that people are good and they will value experience like shit for brains here did!

     I fucked up, big time. I didn't see it coming. Now I am paying the price and there is literally nothing I can do about it - been trying for years!