#google layoffs

unsurprisingly google has fired a bunch of people today (though not as many as msft from last week) but they tried to get ahead of it and saying in advance that they were going to be laying off some of their contractors and temps. so people were worried the day would come when people get fired. and if y’all know google, they have a lot of contractors. i think i heard at one point there were more contractors than full time employees (which is also sad for the ftes but it’s even worse for contractors that like fucking creepy miles fucking schoolgirls rarely if ever get benefits ). they got people in their glass door prisons waiting to be let in to the fullime clubs . anyway all this to say, y’all know google lends out a lot of their employees to other companies, under the auspices that maybe if you become a good enough worker they’ll promote you to full time. and now i’m imagining at some other company like, oh the tens of thousands of temp workers at google companies like fitbit, nest and pixel squads waiting to hear the news they’e been dreading…