What CPython #layoffs Taught Me About the Real Value of #expertise : Python
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The takeaway you should have from this is that you have absolutely no control over whether your employer will fire you or not, regardless of how valuable you are or how high quality your #work is. And, that attempting to convince yourself otherwise in the manner that you seem to be is probably bad for your career and mental health. You seem, like many people, to be clinging desperately to the belief that large organizations like Microsoft know what they’re doing and make difficult but sensible and well-informed decisions about who to lay off and when. They absolutely do not. I have worked at or for many large multi-billion dollar organizations, and they are all equally mediocre in almost every measurable way, excluding their ability to (sometimes) make multi billions of dollars. We live (...)
#employment #meritocracy #business #management