Time for tech workers to unionize and not go back until work protections exist.

“ oh sure! Sure I’ll come back, for 10 times the salary and a mandatory daily-shit-on-managers-breakfast-sandwich routine”

Workers will also need to get comfortable with change, he says. In the near future, Fuller predicts that AI will create “permanent tumult” within many organizations as they continue to recalibrate their staffing needs around AI advancements.

How about fuck you instead. Organize a union so they have to bargain with workers before doing any kind of change to the workforce

I wish. We lost a couple of great folks in my team this month, and I might even be next on the chopping block. They’re not gonna stop until they literally sink. And by that time, rehiring people won’t be needed anyway.

Anyone who goes back to a company (without having an immediate exit strategy at least) that lays them off is an idiot.

Now that being said, I understand that you might "need the job" but when it comes down to it you better go back having one foot out the door.

Fuck these companies.