Dz you misquoted what I said. I never said only low performers get laidoff.
I specifically said during the dot com.days, a lot of people who aren’t really tech skilled … got tech jobs in shitty startups…and when dotcom blewup those people were forced out and neverfound tech work again.
You might not have been laidoff explicitly, but given you never returned back into tech , I think you probably were were in category of transitory temporary tech worker, employed by no offense a shitty startup that was just looking for bodies, which doesn’t really represent the tech community….companies like pets.com that felt sending a 40lb bag of dogfood throught FedEx was going to revolutionize pet industry and challenge brick and mortars. Or carorder.com that sold cars with a $7000 subsidy for the right to be their repeat customer on their website….lol… If that was the extent of your experience with tech, then that says a lot about your viewpoint of tech and the tech industry. For starters, chances are the scrapy startup you worked isnt really tech or tech work and isn’t representative of the quality tech
companies, just scratching the surface….And if your generalizations of tech industry is based on your limited experience of scrappy startup that is similar to pets.com, well that’s a pretty ignorant understanding of everything else.
Also, actually had the skills to work in tech and if you sat out of tech since 2001, the clearly you missed an opportunity of a lifetime there too because truely skilled tech workers might have temporarily lost their jobs in 2001/2,t they were able to find something better along the way and killed it. Only people who weren’t skilled and had no business being in tech couldn’t find something better post 2001. So if you had the skillset and simply sat out, that’s on you because chances are you are now too old to be taken seriously in tech if you haven’t kept current so that entire vertical is no longer available for you. Age discrimination is real in tech.
Is that what happened? You had a bad experience at 1 shitty startup, decided to get out of tech. Sat out for next few years, and upset that those that stayed say really great growth this past decade and youissed the boat?
