Ask HN: Who is firing by September 2018?

38 points by leoharsha2 7 years ago | 6 comments

rejschaap 7 years ago |

Telltale games

"September 21, 2018: According to reports, Telltale Games holds a meeting where it informs more than 200 developers that they were losing their jobs right then and there."

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/telltale-games-what-happen...

NTDF9 7 years ago |

Why did OP ask this question? Is there a noticeable uptick in layoffs?

imhoguy 7 years ago | |

I have thought this topic is going to be opposite of "Who is hiring". Could be valuable to some companies to set up a net.

GFischer 7 years ago |

Check https://www.thelayoff.com

sarajevo 7 years ago | |

Verizon is in a process of eliminating 10K managers. >https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/25/verizon-offers-separation-pl...

Art Institutes are disintegrating >https://www.republicreport.org/2018/dream-center-closing-num...

Under Armour has massive cuts - 400+ >https://www.reuters.com/article/us-under-armour-layoffs/unde...

Wells Fargo announced 26K cuts (10% of total workforce) >https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/20/wells-fargo-plans-to-lower-h...

Sears is about to close >https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/11/sears-laid-off-200-more-peop...

The list is much longer, you can just use news search and you'll see a ton of stuff...

imhoguy 7 years ago | | |

The source doesn't confirm your number:

> Verizon is in a process of eliminating 10K managers.

Source:

> "It is a voluntary plan and offers employees three weeks' pay for every year of service," Verizon spokesman Jim Gerace said, without providing details on the number of employees who would be offered the plan.