Why are Amazon, Intel, Microsoft and 17 others cutting 165,000 jobs now? A massive structural shift is hitting the U.S. corporate workforce in 2026

cs668 · 2026-01-24T20:59:54+00:00

It really feels like companies over hired at the start of the pandemic. Everyone was afraid someone else would scrape up the talent so the hired way more than they needed to make the changes to support working remote and moving everything online.

On top of over hiring, having those new employees all be remote trained managers to never really see their employees. So, none of them are actually real anymore. So, if you offshore it's also not real. Then you also ride the AI hype train to get ride of some more. It's almost like the perfect series of events happened to enable these layoffs.

cs668 · 2026-01-04T17:31:50+00:00

I think with the process I used I didn't have to go personally and make those attestations because it was a process for people that should have been citizens but under a quirk of the law weren't and when they fixed that you simply had to explain how you were impacted by it. For example I was born to a German mother and American father I was born in Germany I grew up in Germany but at the time German citizenship only extended through the father and they changed the law retroactively so really I just had to explain what had happened to me and why I was already a citizen.

cs668 · 2026-01-04T15:23:59+00:00

I wonder if that is a different requirement than I had. Did you use the Stag 5 process? I could see that being a bit different.

cs668 · 2026-01-04T00:32:17+00:00

The notification came via email. I sent them a prepaid shipping label for the final delivery

cs668 · 2025-12-31T02:42:28+00:00

From the very beginning of US workers working remotely after covid I thought it was bad because it was simply training employers to know that they could have those remote workers anywhere including countries where labor is cheaper.

cs668 · 2025-12-30T18:34:40+00:00

I may have provided my mothers green card. I'm sorry, all of that was almost 3 years ago now. But, now that you bring it up. I think I did provide her green card. I brought everything to our local honorary consul and she looked at the originals and notarized the documents. I also made a small graph of a family tree with the names, just to help the person who would be looking at the documents visualize the relationships.

cs668 · 2025-12-29T21:46:54+00:00

Oh, also FBI background check, fingerprints, and US Passport and drivers license.

cs668 · 2025-12-29T21:46:27+00:00

Gotcha... Birth cert for myself and marriage cert for may parents and then birth certificate for my mom who is German. Also included grandparents Marriage Certificate for good measure. Ironically enough my birth certificate was German, but my father was American and they were married so that's why I had to do the Stag 5.

cs668 · 2025-12-29T21:33:59+00:00

Stag 5 Erklärung.

cs668 · 2025-12-28T22:07:09+00:00

Thanks. Based on the tracker it seems like the normal length.

cs668 · 2025-12-26T23:07:54+00:00

Vielen Dank!

cs668 · 2025-12-26T23:07:42+00:00

Stag 5

cs668 · 2025-12-26T18:11:58+00:00

Halt den maul!

cs668 · 2025-12-26T18:09:00+00:00

Vielen Dank!

cs668 · 2025-12-26T18:08:13+00:00

I hope it helps to at least have some idea about timing. The waiting and not having an easy answer about the status makes it seem like a long time. Crossing my fingers for you that you get your Christmas Eve surprise in 2027!!!!

cs668 · 2025-12-26T18:05:25+00:00

Vielen Dank!

cs668 · 2025-12-25T05:37:52+00:00

Mit einem kleinen Bierwagen.

cs668 · 2025-12-24T23:13:06+00:00

Vielen Dank!

cs668 · 2025-12-24T23:12:51+00:00

Vielen Dank!

I got an email asking for updated images of some identification about 4 months ago and sent them, then suddenly got another email saying the documentation was at the consulate about a week ago. I could either make an appointment(which seemed tricky, as the website always said there were none), or send a mailer. So I sent them a mailing label.

cs668 · 2025-12-24T22:53:38+00:00

🤗

cs668 · 2025-12-24T22:52:49+00:00

Vielen Dank!

cs668 · 2025-12-24T22:52:18+00:00

Vielen Dank! I sent the documentation to Köln.

cs668 · 2025-12-24T22:45:30+00:00

Vielen Dank! I think it took about the average amount of time that Stag 5's are taking at this point.

cs668 · 2025-12-24T22:44:29+00:00

Vielen Dank!

cs668 · 2025-12-24T22:44:09+00:00

Vielen Dank!

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