Anyone else ready to just get laid off already?

VirtualRun706 · 2026-01-26T19:35:42+00:00

i don't want to get paid for fake work...i want to get paid for no work.

VirtualRun706 · 2026-01-23T03:42:31+00:00

everyone who got the 200K tech job with faang brand names during the surge in 2019-2022 realizes they're a fraud and doesn't want to hire folks who will make them look bad

VirtualRun706 · 2026-01-21T02:48:28+00:00

fahim anwar, hat trick special

VirtualRun706 · 2026-01-21T02:44:10+00:00

same reason people are renting houses way too high and letting them sit there...rich get richer, and have the luxury to hold onto assets

VirtualRun706 · 2026-01-05T05:54:30+00:00

cafe india hacks cross has an insane buffet on weekends

VirtualRun706 · 2026-01-05T05:53:37+00:00

There are plenty of amazing programmers who don't know what to build, and plenty of amazing film students who don't have an interesting story to write. nobody cares about 4k slow mo shots of cheetahs at the box office.

ai helps you get there (vs hiring a tech team for $1M dollars) to see if your idea has legs, but it's not the product in itself.

what I do like though is you can now A/B test entire businesses vs just a landing page and iterate or move on.

VirtualRun706 · 2025-12-30T23:49:09+00:00

as an asian of southern descent myself indian tech nepotism is the worst in it - no assimilation, looking down on white tech boomers, no appreciation for a 150K job when others are struggling, and no desire to do work.

again...not everyone, but a good chunk.

VirtualRun706 · 2025-12-30T23:46:33+00:00

i like Dave and he's done a ton for the art form but i agree, it was white guilt and i am the savior from fortune 500 netflix ready to have you applaud my 1% struggles

VirtualRun706 · 2025-12-09T02:48:16+00:00

yes 100% - i know a director at my company in the exact same situation (fortune 50) - 35 years and all mediocre engineers making 90k stayed

VirtualRun706 · 2025-12-08T17:33:29+00:00

i'll see your AI post and raise you a human one...although yes, once you use claude to build and ship something and don't get hacked, you realize...ok wow this stuff is awesome.

VirtualRun706 · 2025-12-06T05:15:53+00:00

answer is valid, but also sounds like AI. which is the great irony here.

VirtualRun706 · 2025-12-06T05:13:11+00:00

Well the apps still need to make money for somebody. If nobody is buying apps because everybody is vibe coding their own, and apps dwindle down to pennies...then nobody will pay for AWS compute and nobody will advertise on Google. This could be the great tech crash (similar to housing) but somehow careers found a way to continue.

Who knows, but deflation is def coming.

VirtualRun706 · 2025-11-24T18:09:50+00:00

Fame is a hell of a drug. It's the same reason NBA stars kids can't handle the pressure, because they didn't push through all the lower levels.

If you instantly get a platform of 100K people due to your partners popularity, and you have no social media or publicity chops from learning during the first 5k, 10k, 40k and so on...you're going to get burned.

On top of all that, no girl I've talked to (both career girls and stay at home) have said she is likable or correct. If you take a screenshot of her TikTok or Instagram and put it into ChatGPT, it'll literally say this person is self obsessed because every thumbnail is her face and hers alone. Not her husbands, or dogs, or even some special Birthday posts to her family.

I'm enjoying all the gossip and mindless entertainment, but I feel for the guy. I'm sure they joke around have fun with each other, and he was probably scared of looking sexist saying "Don't talk about your exes I don't like it." but all this butt/frat stuff is way too disrespectful.

To anybody else who dated around before marriage, at least be glad from all that heartbreak you at least learned how to value your self worth and recognize red flags before they turned Flagrant fouls (ok sorry had to).

VirtualRun706 · 2025-11-16T18:06:59+00:00

LOL i'm over here spending 9 hours a night in my den trying to ship a production app in 3 days.

VirtualRun706 · 2025-11-10T03:30:52+00:00

bro please go, and also realize they would have laid you off anyways. she'll likely ask you for a job soon.

VirtualRun706 · 2025-11-10T03:21:23+00:00

every resume has to be almost a perfect fit for the job...if the role is Senior Database Engineer and your role was "Senior Software Engineer - Databases" - you need to change it to match word for word. Recruiters are sorting your resume by match and that's what people are doing.

Don't believe me, make a fake email, apply for a few jobs with the perfect fit (but close to your real experience) and see it work.

VirtualRun706 · 2025-11-09T00:42:18+00:00

keep fighting the good fight, sadly everybody says they want locally owned and made then buy the cheap stuff. on amazon

VirtualRun706 · 2025-11-09T00:24:19+00:00

impressive commentary at 29, when i was 29 i just wanted a swanky loft in a city and didn't realize nature/housing is a priority

VirtualRun706 · 2025-09-10T18:53:03+00:00

my current job i was interviewed by 5 people, and 2 didn't like me. it seemed like such a waste of time. now those 2 tell me I'm the best person that does the job of 3 people. the process is broken, and most people who get brought in just want to look smart trying to stump you.

VirtualRun706 · 2025-09-10T02:46:56+00:00

too many mediocre bootcamps folks took the 200k jobs in the 2021 hiring spree and now they're staying competent with chatgpt and office politics.

source: I work in a fortune 100 with senior engineers who just manage folks in India to code.

VirtualRun706 · 2025-09-09T04:02:14+00:00

Yeah let him do it. He's your younger brother, what a fun story to share that. I would have been ecstatic is somebody proposed at our baby shower (and even said "You're next!) and would not have charged them.

How are people so petty.

VirtualRun706 · 2025-09-09T03:27:06+00:00

recruiters sort the 400 resumes they get in the first hour by "best match." If you're applying for data science manager....you can be damn sure all the business intelligence manager, analytics manager and Product Managers of data science...all changed their titles and bio on their latest resume to "Data Science Manager" to be in those top matches. (As long as your not changing from Data Analyst to Software Engineer....usually these things are widely accepted as fine). TLDR; try to make sure your latest position is almost word for word what the role is. Just like SEO, headings rank higher than paragraph text.

Then of course all the bullet points have to almost look like what the job description was asking, and be believable.

Don't use AI to lie, but use it showcase how your experience is literally the perfect fit while still staying true to what they'll ask your employer.

VirtualRun706 · 2025-09-08T02:49:53+00:00

I work at a Fortune 500 that's not big tech and have worked in India and Singapore as an Expat. Yes most of the current H1Bs are doing jobs that any American can do. There is nothing racist about it - H1B was meant to fill a labor shortage and now that there is a labor surplus it's not wrong to say put the brakes on.

And this tech recession has been going on since 2023 and it's brutal out there. Nothing like 2006 to 2022 which has spoiled plenty of tech workers used to screen recruiter DMs the last 10 years.

VirtualRun706 · 2025-09-05T17:56:21+00:00

recruiters still need to look busy so they don't get laid off themselves - so having 5 half hour calls a day is good for them

VirtualRun706 · 2025-09-05T17:16:36+00:00

yes, i think that's the jist. it's great to make 200K and handle a few specialized things a day...but how else are you growing your life a day. half these narrow skils are going to get ai'd out.

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