eBay will lay off 1,000 employees — 9 percent of the company
eBay will lay off 1,000 employees — 9 percent of the company
It’ll scale back contract workers, too.
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74Despite reporting profit of $1.3 billion last quarter, which it described as “another quarter of solid results,” eBay today suggests that there is a “Need for Change.”
It sounds like they aren't even hurting, they just are ritualistically cutting off a pound of flesh for Wall Street.
43Line must go up!
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Yeah, I think it’s pretty weird to say “no working from home except for lay-off day.”
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I am more surprised that eBay has more than 11,000 employees.
59Parts of that site still feel like they’re from 2000. What do these people do?
29Sites at that scale that cannot afford errors, downtime, or system breaches operate massive IT teams just to keep the systems running. That's before even touching Logistics,Advertising, customer service, seller outreach, brand management, human resources, etc, etc. Ebay in 2023 had 132 Million customers. That's 12,000 customers per employee per year, or 32 customers per employee per day assuming they worked the full 365 solid. A rather lean storefront actually, probably propped up significantly by the labor of their third-party sellers.
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We need laws around layoffs, stat. It shouldn't be legal for execs to layoff a thousand people and still keep their own jobs. It's their failure that caused the issue in the first place - they've been safe for too long.
47Lmao they're closer to criminalizing lunch breaks than that.
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6The only issue they’re having is number not go up.
4And what would that law be?
3Honestly I am curious what the logistics of a ratio cap between lowest and highest paid employee would result in, say 1:10.
Now there's a lot more to consider but I think restricting the impact onto the managements possible pay by layoffs (while also capping their pay) would encourage upper management who cares about their workers and company alike, and also kill the layoff cycle thats used to boost end of year reports
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First let's let them do the layoffs there will be time to figure out what happened later.
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The C in C-suite stands for Cunt
46Yikes. That is a brutal number of layoffs.
32I'm sure those 1,000 people will have no problem finding work... Once all the other places are done with their layoffs and AI has filled in the gaps, and... Welp, maybe i have to reconsider that first statement 😬
best advice for anyone looking for work these days is to learn a trade. I'm sure the drive for unimpeded profits will eventually crater even those types of jobs through AI and automation, just not as soon.
27You know, I ignored my interest in programming for many years, instead opting for a trade, specifically aviation maintenance. I went to school for 2 years for it, passed tests, got licensed, got otj, got taxi quals, engine run certified, and a whole host of stuff.
I also broke my body doing it for $18, after years and years and years, I finally made $25 an hour, whoopie.
I worked around hazardous chemicals, dangerous equipment, high voltage electricity. I stood on concrete floors all day busting my knuckles.
I fell off a ladder and smashed my face on a keel beam, requiring I get stitches. I saw other people get much more hurt than that.
I did all of this with the constant pressure that if I fuck my job up, people are going die, and I will go to jail.
I went back to school, got a job as a software engineer at a midsize company that never is in the news and you have never heard of, and get to sit at home and make 3 times the salary. There are 10 other companies in the same block as mine that have 3-400 hundred person engineering teams, there are lots of jobs for developers outside of the silicon valley bubble, we mostly just hang out and do our thing.
Until trades start paying more, it's just not worth it. I'm sure someone will come in and say that they are a plumber and make $1000 an hour or something, but I can say, there were 500 people in the facility I worked at with the same qualifications as me making the same $18.
39preferably a unionized trade, more staying power...
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This should cover their asses on that big lawsuit they just lost for harassing that poor old couple. Projected profits would be down ~$300m over the period of time they intended to pay this out, I assume, not much of a mathematician. Gross.
21It's a good thing we haven't raised their taxes or wages. I heard that as long as we don't do that they'll NEVER lay people off or raise prices!
9This is the best summary I could come up with:
eBay is following in the footsteps of Google, Discord, Twitch, Unity, and more — by laying off loads of workers this January instead of right before the holidays.
Despite reporting profit of $1.3 billion last quarter, which it described as “another quarter of solid results,” eBay today suggests that there is a “Need for Change.” Company president and CEO Jamie Iannone writes that “there is more we can do to ensure our success,” and argues that eBay should be a “more nimble” company that “makes decisions more quickly” to position itself for “long-term, sustainable growth.”
Never mind that last quarter, eBay CFO Steve Priest already said he was “extremely proud of our teams for delivering on their quarterly financial commitments, maintaining prudent cost discipline, and executing key deliverables in support of our strategy.”
eBay also argues that it hired too quickly, an excuse tech companies have been trotting out for over a year: “While we are making progress against our strategy, our overall headcount and expenses have outpaced the growth of our business,” writes Iannone today.
It asks that all US employees work from home tomorrow while the company processes this news.
Incidentally, Iannone’s predecessor — former eBay CEO Devin Wenig — got a $57 million severance package after the company cyberstalked and harassed a pair of its critics, sending them live insects, a bloody pig mask, and a funeral wreath.
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7Just more corporate BS to cover for poor management and greed.
10And the huge lawsuit they lost because they are run by assholes.
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And the techBro war on skilled wages continues...
5So we already have Video Game apologies for publishers/developers pushing half-assed products to release - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/video-game-apologies
Can we get a CEO apology letter? I've taken a stab at putting together a template:
Dear ,
We are on a path to with . We are growing resilient and more agile to with the increasing demands of our customers. We feel we can by our consistent performance with our .
Our is the right one, but to ensure we can our success, we need to be further , bring our persons together for collaboration , and push our development to reach decisions quickly.
[Optional: Depending on how Legal believes the people getting fired will respond, consider mentioning record profits.] [Now that positive paragraphs are introduced, hit them with the bad news next]
We need to change and innovate. We will be organizing our effieienctly by our by . We understand this difficult position we are in, and we know that our is a decision <'we do not take lightly', 'take for granted', etc.>. We understand the impact this has to our .
[Depending on what Legal decides, now insert verbiage about how this decision was painful or difficult for you. We recommend you reflect over this decision with a glass of wine, or on your private boat/catamaran]
I this decision is painful, and we are aware of the impact this will make on our . We unfortunately with our collaborative who we have over many years. [Optional: Insert sentence here that states you feel responsible for this, and am working hard to 'right the ship', 'steer the ship', or other corpo-speak you think is preferred to recommend to your wage slaves]
[Now add a vague paragraph about how people will be in touch with the ones being fired, just to give some kind of reassurance that they'll at least get their final paycheck]
To of this transition, we will be notifying in . We are committed to all and will provide them with .
These changes are . We are to . We believe by, will come out of this with more . We believe will be better positioned to focus on our number one goal: maximising profit at the expensive of the humans that slave for us.
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1It's probably because of AI.
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