Google my one and solely profession, says worker laid off after over 16 years of job

Riding on the tide of tech layoffs, Google fired 12,000 staff accounting 6% of its workforce final month in bid to what CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned is to keep away from “much worse issues”. This compelled staff to undergo a aggravating interval of job searching. Several laid-off tech staff at the moment are taking to social media to share their harrowing expertise.

Joel Leitch, a software program engineer at Google who joined as an intern again in 2006 and remained there since was proven exit door within the firm’s latest mass-layoffs. Sharing his story in a LinkedIn put up, Leitch says he has by no means identified every other profession and that the corporate has misplaced a devoted worker by firing him.

“For me, it has been a slow process to come to terms with my new reality as Google has been my one and only career, starting as an intern in January 2005 followed by 16.5 years in a full-time capacity,” Leitch wrote. He continues to say that he’s nonetheless puzzled as to why Google would let go ‘skilled, sensible, gifted, gritty, high-performing staff’. ALSO READ: Google invests $300 mn in ChatGPT rival. Know about Anthropic | 5 factors

Thanking Google for offering the alternatives, Leitch pens suggestions for the remaining staff. He writes, “Please remember and continue to practice the “3 R(espect)s”. He asks employees to focus on what is best for the user while keeping a healthy disregard for the impossibility. He emphasises on innovation and collaboration to create new “magical moments”. He says, the group’s members and the connections made there will be crucial to Google’s future success. “The potential impact that you can have on the world is near infinite,” he adds.

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Leading global companies such as Google, Twitter, Amazon, Salesforce, Spotify, and others have been downsized their workforce as part of “restructuring” efforts. So far, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta have introduced 41,000 layoffs, accounting for practically a 3rd of the roles added since 2019.