Unemployment isn’t very much, is it?

Yeah, it’s really not for us, it’s more about tiding over a laid-off retail worker so they don’t get evicted. Not allowing someone with a mortgage in Cupertino or Redmond and little savings to keep their lifestyle mostly intact with just a little belt-tightening.

And I’m not saying that in a grumpy way. Yes we do have much higher salaries, and because of that it’s reasonable that it’s on us to save up for this type of rainy day, in accordance with our own personal risk assessment.

It’s honestly something I spent 15 years rarely thinking about, because while I’ve seen many RIFs, I was never worried since getting a new job was as easy as just responding to a few of the messages that constantly came in via LinkedIn or email. No longer.

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0cf8612b2e1e 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ah tech money.

Not everyone has options and unemployment can be the difference between being on the street or eating ramen.

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annodomini2019 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Weird comment when the context is about whether a TECH employee should take the buyout offer vs unemployment...?

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0cf8612b2e1e 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Microsoft employs more than highly paid programmers. There are sales, janitors, cooks, admins, drivers, shipping, etc

	▲	annodomini2019 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I would assume a lot of the types of people you're talking about are in fact not Microsoft employees, it's way more common these days to hire people like on-site cooks through agencies that effectively make them contractors for Microsoft. This notice is definitely about "corporate" employees, and I believe another comment noted that in a different source it's stated that sales and marketing are not even being offered this deal.