• thisbenzingring@lemmy.today
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    16 hours ago

    I thought that way in the early 2000s when I was laid off from Microsoft. It was a blessing in disguise for me and opened up more doors that I never knew existed.

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      15 hours ago

      It’s much different world now, but I hope everyone who got laid off recently gets a better job.

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        11 hours ago

        It’s not. The Internet bubble was destroying every tech job. September 11th… You might just be too young to remember what it was like.

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          10 hours ago

          Yeah things were way different before the patriot act, but I was really too young to know about that honestly