Google layoffs mean the dream is over

Newsletters Google takes away the snacks 🥀😢😭 TECHNOLOGY Google lays off hundreds of Bay Area workers, shuts down Mountain View child care center By Stephen Council Jan 11, 2024 Google continues to have layoff after layoff Google will close some snack bars, known as “microkitchens,” and shutter cafeterias on days they see lower traffic, according to a staffwide memo sent Friday by Ruth Porat, the company’s chief financial officer. Employees won’t get to automatically replace computers or expense phone purchases as easily, and nonengineering workers will get Chromebooks instead of higher-end laptops, CNBC reported. okay and if you're not an engineer a couple dozen in-house massage therapists Over 167,000 tech employees laid off so far in 2023, according to tracking site Layoffs.fyi. Digital ad spending has slowed since 2021, hitting Google’s dominant, money-minting search business and YouTube ad network. you remember like you can sleep in a pod it's like I think the dream is over you'll be okay you have to share a desk and use a crappy computer I don't know what it's gonna take

A woman speaks directly to the camera over an article about Google layoffs, shrinking employee perks, snack bars closing, shared desks, pod sleeping, and cheaper computers. Her increasingly bleak captions turn corporate cost-cutting into a darkly comic reaction to the idea that the glamorous tech-worker dream is over, while the final line expresses exhausted uncertainty. EN: A woman speaks directly to the camera over an article about Google layoffs, shrinking employee perks, snack bars closing, shared desks, pod sleeping, and cheaper computers. Her increasingly bleak captions turn corporate cost-cutting into a darkly comic reaction to the idea that the glamorous tech-worker dream is over, while the final line expresses exhausted uncertainty.

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