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12-03-2025, 03:10 PM
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#1526 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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Stand with evofire and small businesses and stop spending money at Amazon. Bezos is a fucking piece of shit.
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12-03-2025, 03:15 PM
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#1527 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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I've honestly minimized my spending with them over the last few years.
Market has honestly been shit and I've been looking for the last 18 months, other than a few nibbles here and there it's not progressed anywhere.
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12-03-2025, 03:20 PM
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#1528 | | JDMEK9Mod | DogWhisperer
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hope you're back on your feet asap
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12-03-2025, 03:21 PM
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#1529 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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I’m assuming your severance package is pretty juicy? Good luck with the job hunt
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12-03-2025, 03:49 PM
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#1530 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by westopher  Stand with evofire and small businesses and stop spending money at Amazon. Bezos is a fucking piece of shit. | 100 percent. Bald dildo face is replacing thousands of employees with A.I. robots:
Support local small business! https://www.monkhouselaw.com/amazon-layoffs/ https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/com...iant-ai-robots
On October 28, 2025, Amazon announced plans for a major corporate restructuring that could result in up to 30,000 corporate job cuts worldwide [Reuters; AP News; CTV News]. The reductions primarily affect corporate and technology roles as the company reallocates resources toward artificial intelligence and cost efficiency (The Verge). While Amazon has not released a country-by-country breakdown, the announcement raises questions about potential impacts on Canadian employees. Those affected — particularly corporate and tech workers — should understand their rights and review any severance offers carefully before signing.
What Amazon Announced
Public reporting indicates the restructuring is focused on corporate and technology roles as Amazon streamlines operations and increases AI-related investment [Reuters; The Verge]. Some outlets report approximately 14,000 confirmed corporate roles in the first wave, with additional cuts anticipated as the restructuring progresses (AP News).
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12-03-2025, 03:58 PM
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Sorry to hear about Evo's layoff.
The job market is generally extra quiet between Dec - Feb. So don't stress yourself out while looking for a new gig. You have a severance package, and there is the better than nothing EI afterwards as well as your buffer.
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12-03-2025, 03:59 PM
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#1532 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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Originally Posted by radeonboy This is before my time so I'm curious - what did they do that got them banned? | From what I remember there was a group of mods who didn't like them for some reason? I'm pretty sure I remember even Skinny didn't agree with them getting banned, at least not initially?
I do know people made fun of her weight a lot and people here posted their pics on this forum too so yeah
Are the people who banned them even still active on this forum? Pretty sure one of the mods was a woman too
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12-03-2025, 04:01 PM
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#1533 | | RabidMod
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@Evo I'm happy to send in as many referrals as you want into my workplace's system  . I can help ping the recruiters too, for any roles you think you'd especially like.
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12-03-2025, 04:11 PM
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#1534 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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Originally Posted by RevYouUp I’m assuming your severance package is pretty juicy? Good luck with the job hunt | Quote:
Originally Posted by Traum Sorry to hear about Evo's layoff.
The job market is generally extra quiet between Dec - Feb. So don't stress yourself out while looking for a new gig. You have a severance package, and there is the better than nothing EI afterwards as well as your buffer. | I wish, but since I was a contractor, it's just 2 weeks extra pay on top of end of my employment. In short they cut my contract short as it was to run until March. Quote:
Originally Posted by RabidRat @Evo I'm happy to send in as many referrals as you want into my workplace's system . I can help ping the recruiters too, for any roles you think you'd especially like. | I'll take a peek, thanks in advance.
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12-03-2025, 04:23 PM
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#1535 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Evo, what do you do/what industry are you in?
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12-03-2025, 05:14 PM
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#1536 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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I'm in tech, specifically I'm a SDET or QA Automation. Lots of names for it, but they all boil down to a similar skillset.
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12-03-2025, 05:15 PM
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#1537 | | in the butt
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Originally Posted by EvoFire So I just got news I'm gonna be part of the big layoffs Amazon is still pushing. Promoted to customer. | What are the odds for the next job? Easy or difficult in your industry?
Evofires caption under his name is finally accurate lol
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12-03-2025, 05:19 PM
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#1538 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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There are places hiring, but I started this contract pre-massive tech layoffs so I'm above most places in terms of compensation. We are talking about easily a 30-50k annual paycut for my next job. I've been applying for the last few months as Amazon has been hugely unstable and I was already unsure for extension in March. So far all the cold applications or reach outs have resulted in nothing. Referrals and recruiters have gotten me cups of coffee here and there but nothing has materialized.
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12-03-2025, 05:24 PM
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#1539 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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Man, nothing is guaranteed anymore. Wish I was a Boomer...
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12-03-2025, 06:04 PM
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#1540 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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Originally Posted by GS8 Man, nothing is guaranteed anymore. Wish I was a Boomer... | 150k house in prime Vancouver
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12-03-2025, 06:27 PM
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#1541 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by Eff-1 That's terrible. Really sorry.
Why do companies always do this shit before xmas?
A couple days ago, two of the largest global advertising holding companies closed their merger/acquisition and within 24 hours started laying off 4000 people, including some friends of mine. Right before Christmas! | Fiscal year end for those companies...
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12-03-2025, 07:50 PM
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#1542 | | Anal Mcgee
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You wanna go sell cars at Hyundai or drive a bus in the meantime ?
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12-03-2025, 08:30 PM
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#1543 | | JDMEK9Mod | DogWhisperer
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NGL, that gross pay they been talking about has me thinking  | |
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12-03-2025, 09:23 PM
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#1544 | | I *Fwap* *Fwap* *Fwap* to RS
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I think OpenRoad sold that Hyundai store, so maybe the pay plans under new management are better.
Hyundai Richmond no longer appears as a location on their corporate page - in fact they no longer have any Hyundai locations: https://openroadauto.com/locations/ | |
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12-03-2025, 11:36 PM
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#1545 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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so sorry to hear that Evo, hopefully your wife works and can lighten the burden.
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12-04-2025, 12:53 PM
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#1546 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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Originally Posted by Eff-1 That's terrible. Really sorry.
Why do companies always do this shit before xmas?
A couple days ago, two of the largest global advertising holding companies closed their merger/acquisition and within 24 hours started laying off 4000 people, including some friends of mine. Right before Christmas! | Fiscal year bullshit. Budgeting for the next year by means of layoffs.
Our company does that shit all the time.
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12-04-2025, 12:59 PM
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But...the Future is Friendly  
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12-04-2025, 01:07 PM
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#1548 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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That sucks Evo, it's sad that the social contract we've all thought was there is being actively dismantled under the drive for "shareholder value".
In the 2000s and 2010s you were told "go into tech, saddle yourself with all this student debt, you'll have a job forever", now tech workers are the first to get laid off nowadays.
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Originally Posted by westopher LOOK AT ME IM MIKE AND I HAVE A BIG HOG AND I DRINK TEQULA AND WORK OUT AND LISTEN TO CHARLI XCX ON THE BEACH IN BERMUDA
Grow up fuckin Peter Pan and get a good nights rest. | | |
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12-04-2025, 01:16 PM
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#1549 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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Originally Posted by mikemhg That sucks Evo, it's sad that the social contract we've all thought was there is being actively dismantled under the drive for "shareholder value".
In the 2000s and 2010s you were told "go into tech, saddle yourself with all this student debt, you'll have a job forever", now tech workers are the first to get laid off nowadays. | It's a bit more nuanced than that tbh.
Yes you are right the social contract has crumbled, but that trust has been eroded on both sides of the fabric as companies are driven by numbers right here and right now. Back in the day there was more of a future looking aspect of things.
The publicly traded corporate world is very similar to democratic politics. They want to see results right now, not 5 years or 10 years later. That's why a lot of major projects stall as it's a black hole for many years before it generates value. It's honestly amazing how Site C actually made it off the ground considering.
On the other side of things, AI is wreaking havoc in our industry because on the surface humans are so easily replaceable. Of course things aren't that simple but you are asking a C suite who's not involved with day to day details to discern the difference when even if they were technical before, they haven't been for over a decade.
We are starting to see some pullback though and the word bubble is increasingly coming up in regards to AI. A lot of people are forecasting a 2000's era dot.com bust for the AI sector as the resource demands are so damn intense. No one is actually making a profit right now in that sector and OpenAI just said they are in trouble because they have no answer for some of the new developments. Whether if that's real or not time will tell.
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12-04-2025, 01:23 PM
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