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This has both positive and negative aspects. On one hand, it sucks to lose your job. But on the other, many of these workers were petite bourgeois engineers (intelligentsia).
From experience these folks are some of the most vapid, disconnected from reality liberals I’ve ever met in my life. These folks form the core mass base of the Democratic and Republican parties.
By losing their jobs, they will be proletarianized and join the unemployed detachment of the working class… which should have a profound effect on their political consciousness.
I read through, but am not finding any detail info on what kind of workers these were that were fired. The wording is:
Today, we will begin reducing our workforce by more than 13,000 employees across the organization, and significantly reduce our outsourced and other outside labor expenses.
But I’m not sure if that means some of what counts as the 13k are outsourced and/or contract workers, or if that’s in addition to the 13k.
That said, I’m doubtful that most or all are engineer types, especially the more smug ones. The most experienced, which are also the most well-off financially and can contribute to them being the most smug politically, are also the most valuable and it’s why they get paid the class-consciousness-distorting money. It’s the ones on the lower rungs, including non-engineers in CS roles and the like, who are going to most easily have a business case made for firing them.
I’m just speaking on what I heard on the train the other day. I overheard some engineers from AT&T complaining about layoffs and how their departments shrunk. I’m also an engineer and had our department shrink too.
They got rid of some of the older folks.
Fair enough.
