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Maybe Google isn't such a fun place to work after all?! Earlier this week, 12,000 Google employees woke up to an email informing them that they were fired. Apparently, the horrible economy is negatively impacting the search engine giant.
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I read a news report about one of the "women in tech" that Google just laid off. When I read her actual job, my eyeballs nearly popped out: paid a big fat salary as a Google employee to (wait for it) "connect fashion brands with influencers on youtube". She flew around the country visiting fashion brands and told them which influencers to give freebies too. Hardly a "tech" job.
Hardly even a job
I could do that from my couch for like 300 bucks a week. Tf
Bet she will claim that men in that position got paid more. Bet there were no actual men in that position.
it's all about titles for them, never the work.
It's crazy the salaries these people get, and what little they do for it, yet so many people are making only 30K-50K working their butts off. Shows how bloated these mega corporations are where they can splurge on everything.
As a tradesman who has been laid off before. Nobody ever sheds a tear for us. I couldn't give less of a shit for these high paid tech people. The adult daycare has come to an end.
I’ve been in grocery my whole working career and was the first layoff in the history of the company of 100+ years in 2016
absolutely, you guys are the real backbone of our society and you guys never ever get enough respect, although it really is terrible to lose any jobs, I am not shedding a tear for them at all.
Few years ago these people told us tradesmen to go study coding. Maybe we should now tell them to go study something useful.
I hear ya man. Electrician here..These same people treat us like second-class citizens for the crime of building there offices while we eat lunch on a five gallon bucket with no running water. Not complaining but definitely not shedding a tear for them!
Amen brother!!🤘
As a person in tech, there is never downtime. If you have time to vlog at work you’re not actually working
🙏🙏🙏🙏 I see a normal hard working women. Now you guy's are becoming rarer and rarer.
As long as they pay you accordingly. People can do whatever they want on their breaks, but if they're messing about when they should be doing something... in the same vein, if the company pays like you're taking breaks, don't skip them.
If they film and edit when it's not company time then it should be fine.
They should clear it with their company first.
My job had stuff like this, free food and drinks, a meditation room, and a ping pong table, but we were expected to work. Everyone who actually worked outlasted everyone who took advantage and goofed off.
I never used facilities like this , even though we had them. I'd be embarrassed playing ping pong, using a massage chair then see my boss walk by.
Maybe that's why I was never laid off
Seen people who don't take advantage get laid off with the lazybones. My advice: Take advantage of it while you can. You're ALWAYS on the chopping block.
@@Unethical.Dodgson true
@@scotttracy9333if I could do 10 hours on a regular chair maybe I could do 20 on a massage chair
Right. I can't help but wonder if all those play rooms nap rooms ECT were nothing but a test of efficiency to see which employees are worth keeping and which ones aren't.
There has to be a middle ground between doing absolutely no work in the tech space and being asked to do 80+ hours a week grind
I don’t do tech but all my work is on the computer work 4.5 days a week (the full days are 9 hours- 1 hour lunch) previous job was 50+ working 10+ hour days on feet no lunch given and would work sometimes 30 days without a day off due to low staffing. Could barely walk when I applied to my current job- hips and legs have healed now 😊
Nope! It's either live at the office or get paid to literally do nothing. That's the American tech industry!
It's called the 40 hour work week
Shocking, I know
"yeah but finding that is hard" - managers
Honestly, it’s not just tech. Easy times promoted useless people through the ranks and now that times are tough, and labor laws favor the employee, it’s easier to dump the load on the few employees getting it done than it is to try to force someone to work. Notice Twitter is still up and running.
An employer who sees staff and contractors moonlighting on tiktok and showing what an easy life they have in the organisation is bound to dismiss them. They've not only shown they are not serious employees, break rules but it affects the brand. The investors, customers, advertisers, competition, media see this and start asking questions.
Protect Da Brand
Layoffs are never easy. My family owns a small company with just over 150 employees. My mother retired and I took over as president. Recession hit hard and I had to layoff 30% of my workforce. Most of the people I had to layoff were people I've known since I was a kid. I didn't want to let them go but keeping them on would mean being in the red.
What have you done that you didnt prepare for a recession?
@@timostegemann9738 Our business is in the medical field. We run a diagnostic medical facility that specializes in screening job applicants that want to work overseas. We make sure they are medically fit according to the medical regulations of the country they are being deployed to. The health agencies of said countries also inspect us annually to make sure that we adhere to their standards but that's beside the point but also kinda important for context. To answer your question, there are a lot of businesses like ours but do not have the certification of said countries. The health agencies of those countries tend to limit the number of accredited medical facilities so they would have a much tighter control. Say a job applicant was marked as 'fit for emplyment' and was cleared for deployment, upon arrival to their destination country, they would have to undergo a similar medical examination to make sure OUR results would match theirs. Say again that somehow, this applicant had a scar on his lung that we didn't see. It would mean repatriation and penalties would be imposed on us. This is one of the primary reasons they want a tighter control of the number of medical facilities that have been given approval. Now that long explanation is out of the way, those other non-accredited medical facilities complained to our government and cried "Monopoly" so congress intervened and we had to suspend all operations. We had prepared well enough for a recession but there's only so much we can do when the government is involved. In the end, nothing came out of it and we were allowed to resume operations again after 3 to 4 years of government red tape. Also, of course, during the height of COVID, all deployments were halted. Add those to the fact that our government hasn't allowed us to increase our prices since the 90s, I'm kind of patting myself in the back that I was able to keep the layoffs to 30%
What a dumbass question.
Most people stress out about how they’ll house and feed themselves when they get laid off, but I’m glad the ex-Google employee had the courage to drag herself to Disneyland instead! (/s)
I think they now identify as a Xoogle employee
I think is a strategy to see if she can become a Disney influencer. My perception only.
must be nice to get paid more than 90% of the population to do absolutely nothing other than take free stuff. i wasnt even laid off, just told the business would be closing down for a week over the holidays meaning i lose a week of pay, and that was enough to make me start searching for part time work and cutting all expenses.
To be fair, she said she had already bought a yearly pass. Might as well use it if it cheers her up. What I'm more concerned about is all that sugar she had while there...
And she spent all her money on crazy overpriced food! That takes a lot of bravery during such a tough time 😔
As someone who works at one of the big three and is still employed I am glad to see all the dead weight cut. I work 10-11 hours straight 6 days a week making sure backend migrations into the cloud are running smoothly (it almost never runs smoothly lol) definitely no time to vlog. I can say first hand that there were way too many employees who did nothing. I was forced to engage with them just for the sake of being “inclusive” even though they were useless and couldn’t contribute anything to the project.
Had to laugh at the one text message where someone asked “why didn’t they cut the lower ranked performers?” Uhhh they did and if you were actually critical to anything you wouldn’t have been let go
That's usually how it goes. MS would sometimes cut an entire group because priorities changed but those people were allowed to look for internal employment for a month or more.
Not necessary, sometimes really solid individuals get cut because their division or team is mismanaged. In large scale layoffs, sometimes the baby goes out with the bathwater.
I'm pleasantly surprised to finally come across a Big Tech employee who actually works hard. Maybe there is hope in this world.
@@DMichaelAtLarge I’m surprised someone in big tech even clicked on a DW video.
Ya, as a Dev who's worked at companies like this, I can defintely say its the Devs doing most of the work in these places (not all Devs, but most are working hard).
Ive been on projects that only had 2 Devs, but like 10 other managers, designers, analysts, and other non Dev positions. And many times us devs basically had to do their jobs too, cuz they would regularly have the worst ideas that we'd have to push back on and come up with better ideas that actually work. Designers that don't know UI/UX, analysts that don't know how to come up with useful A/B tests, execs that think every idea they cr4p out is solid gold, etc.
The projects I've been apart of that were the most successful were the ones with nothing but devs, where we were just told to make it happen as fast as possible. Had the full app up in 2 weeks, with all the UI/UX and analysis bells and whistles after a month. Course everyone was shocked, but hey when you get outa way turns out we can get stuff done! Being a Dev aint just about code anymore
At age 57, I just left a $200k per year job because it was sucking the life out of me. My wife and I moved across the country and started a new chapter. I took a chance on myself and with her support, I have complete faith that this will be the best decision for us. There is more to life than money!! Have faith and enjoy the ride.
For what it's worth..
I'm proud of you bro.
Does your wife know you're watching Brett cooper???
@@leonnaranjo8682 What would be the problem with that? Simply looking at women ≠ cheating. Would it be cheating for the husband to look at female relatives?
@@LeBronyaJamesexactly, and also, Brett is 21... this man is 57.
Mike, Good decision. Nobody needs $200k to be happy. "The wise man seeks his wife's counsel first."
Great episode!
I spent close to 20 years in corporate America before getting laid off from my last job. Knowing that big companies sometimes make changes that negatively impact employees, my wife and I started a very small business while I was still employed (I worked in the new business after hours).
When the layoffs hit my office (as well as every other regional office in the country), I completely invested myself in our new company.
We’ve been going strong for 20 years now. Even during Covid, my employees never missed a FULL paycheck. We have tried to be wise in our hiring, so that we would never have to lay anyone off. So far, we have had 100% success in that! There have been lots of sacrifices along the way (I have forfeited a few paychecks so that employees could be paid), but we’re still going strong.
Now that we have this “entitled” age, it’s harder than ever to find qualified people to fill open positions…people with zero experience now demand $20+ per hour to start, but they’re only willing to do $5/hour work. (The work we do isn’t dangerous or difficult.) For now, we’ll just keep running a leaner-than-normal operation.
The Keystone Pipeline workers took their loss of employment better than her.
That’s because we’re not a bunch of coddled adult children who get their feels hurt by words, we have real things to deal with.
Keystone pipeline workers simply moved on to other pipeline work, because their jobs were necessary.
@@robertsteele474 mic drop
That’s because us tradesmen have actual skills and are actively needed to keep the world running, anyone who has access to a “nap room” is optional 🤷♂️
Perfectly put.
I am a recruiter and was recently fired from big tech. When I was hired, within a month, I asked another recruiter I worked with, "Why did they hire us?" There was almost no work, I begged for work, was told more work was coming soon, and it never did. You would not believe the amount of money they waste. I should have been fired because I never should have been hired. But the money...yeah, it's silly good. I literally told my boss at one point, "If they want to keep paying me for this, fine, but it doesn't feel right."
Big Tech is not the paradise landing spot people think it is. It's just different companies with different problems.
You were probably hired to fill as a number quoter for ESG scores. Be-careful for the companies/organizations/parties or any group you think is in you're best interest because it is most likely aligned just to support the goals of the WEF.
As a recruiter that couldnt secure his ow job! you deserved to be fired.
@@bentdriver Sri Lanka had 98-100% ESG scores on paper. Only problem it is worse than austerity and plummeted even upper class people into poverty. HOW INFILTRATED IS YOUR GOVERNMENT? see"ESG" SCORES
@@jay_kay709 Speaking as someone with little/no context, like you; if someone offered you money to do nothing you’d take it.
You’d also look for reasons to continue being paid the money, as they said they did.
“Deserve to be fired” - smh, you’re deficient mentally.
not a problem exclusive to big tech companies
i was in the automotive industry for a very big company and outside of the actual production they could've easily laid off like 20% of the staff and still run well
it's just in general a problem of big companies imo
None of those meals are "free" they pay for them out of their pay they just fail to realize it.
That’s so funny. Just like the military. Gets pulled out as BAS (basic allowance for sustenance) before you even see your paycheck.
Exactly and use all that bs for tax write offs.
Nah, they provide free food to get you to stay longer in the office.
The idea of having "free meals" is to keep the employee from going outside the company, so they spend more time "on campus" (I mean, its not a university), and then its easier for you to justify overwork and staying late.
None of your benefits are free. Insurance, services, meals, coffee, it all comes out of your paycheck.
It's literally like finding $1000 in a paper bag in the same spot every day for a year and posting it. Do you really think that paper bag will still be there after telling the world about it?
As someone who works in tech, and I know this is old, but I survived 3 rounds of layoffs… and I think they were well deserved. We had so many people just coasting and honestly we are running better with a tight ship.
It’s amazing how when you grow up you realize how right your parents were about everything. My father always told me “never be loyal to a company, bc they will never be loyal to you. The second they don’t need you they’ll cut you and wont think twice about it.” This is a prime example, google has every right to do it. I’m not saying they shouldn’t have. They made a decision that they thought would better the company. But just like they have the right to do it, you have every right to always explore other options. Don’t ever be loyal to a company, they’re not “family”, they don’t care about you, if you died tomorrow they’d replace you within a week. You work and they pay you. After that there is no owing, there is no loyalty. Don’t ever feel guilty about taking a better opportunity.
Yep. The best job is always the next job ;) Peruse the job market on ur time off… I always give 100% of myself to any job I hold. And Ive worked for years for most jobs I’ve held, professionally dedicated. But still keeping my options opened, just in case.
I own a small 50 ppl company. Those who work, get benefits, those who don't, can find another job. Its easy as that. One of my best workers married last year and i gave him 3 months paid vaccinations + a bonus for him to enjoy his honeymoon because he is honestly one of the most hardworking and honest person i ever met.
I wish i could only hire people like him so i dont ever need to fire anyone, but sadly there are a lot of freeloaders who lie into a job and then don't do anything.
Indeed there is no loyalty for bad workers, none at all. I need working to be done so i can pay workers, its simple as that.
They aren't firing anyone who is productive.
@@luccam3795 3 months of paid vaccinations AND a bonus? where do i sign up? 😛 (im just kidding)
@@williampotter2098 In SOME (not all obviously) cases they do. I’m not denying that some workers are laid off due to their performance. Not everybody gets laid off for the same reason, there’s multiple reasons why it can happen. This is common in large-scale layoffs like sometimes they need to lay off a whole team or a type of job.
The lay offs are needed to reduce the company’s expenses so that they can earn more. This will clear up the books and clean up the wage structure. The more a company earns, the more money employees can be paid.
These perks were actually created to encourage people not to leave the office. Primarily for the people who work 12 - 18 hour days.
Where did you get that information?
That was always my assumption as well. If your company offers daycare, dry cleaning, meals, hair salons, etc., why on earth would you ever need to go home or leave work?
I saw a video about the introduction of like two breaks a day. It started when women started working. And they realised they are getting tired easily but when given a break and some tea they worked longer and produced more. Haven't quite confirmed but even I stay longer in a place where I don't have to leave to get lunch or a snack. The comfort makes you forget you are tired or hungry. I agree with you on my end at least
But then you start including exercise and yoga classes that take an hour+ of the work day that encourage them to stay but not to work.
@@Grynjolf Just working in the industry. I think the game industry started this. During crunches where people are working 12+ hour days, they could take a small break and play ping pong and talk about work. Of course just like anything though, it starts to get taken for granted and abused. I bet Google wanted to encourage people to show up early and started offering breakfast for example. It just got out of control
I guarantee you the layoffs were not random. That’s just what they tell people to not hurt their feelings and also to prevent people from suing because they felt unfairly targeted.
Especially at Google. The naivety of people who work at a big tech firm that specializes in data thinking that they don’t track where their employees are at all times and how much they cost or add to the bottom line is cute. I know they had to badge in for everything the took, even if it was free, or at least they did at the Manhattan site when I visited with a friend. They track people in real time “for emergencies” but also for productivity.
Low voltage electrician here. When I was their age I did installations and service work. I crawled around in hot dangerous nasty attics installing alarm systems for ADT at $13 an hour!! I now make good money and less work as experience makes the job easier. The only money I had to shell out was the fees for testing and licensing. I was taught on the job and got paid for it! I get companies wanting to hire me as they see I have experience. Ive never been laid off, if I did I would move on to the next company. Tradesman and techicians play a valuable roll in our society. I don't feel bad for these kids. I'm sure the have a pile of student debt. Life is tough and their are no short cuts.
When they say "I have an nth meeting", they are so happy. As a software engineer working 5 years in industry, I can say - we hate meetings. Those are holes in our working hours. I have to spend 30 minutes un top of the meeting time to get back where I were with coding.
Yes meetings are a waste of time, and are usually able to be to be conveyed through emails. Higher ups just like to hear themselves talk
@@da3iyd3n Have to agree. In every job I've had (teaching, customer service, writing), meetings have always taken hours when they could have been done in five minutes. Such a waste of time I could spend working.
Am mot on tech but dang I hate meetings. You are probably discussing things an email could just spread
Of course they’re happy, they don’t do any real work so they see meetings as work, where they get to ‘have their voices heard’. We all know better, most meetings are a waste of time.
@@da3iyd3n i have to disagree, it severely depends which who you have meetings with, with your average Joe from accounting, mostly yes it is but to coordinate projects and to get everyone together to solve complex problems and see it from different sides it is great. So basically it depends if your higher up is capable or not.
Hi, Brett! I think this is what my students were talking about in one of my morning classes when I entered this morning. There wasn't any sympathy among the students for these people. One female said that, since it didn't look like anybody was working among the newly unemployed, she couldn't feel sorry that they lost their "jobs". I think there's a much stronger feeling of resentment that people were paid so much to do so little. I know that I kind of lean that way myself. I'm overdrawn about every 2 months because teachers make so little, and yet I'm working double overtime for the extra money that I'm bringing home, and here I sit watching these people bemoan the fact that their (literally) free lunches are going to stop now, and they will eventually have to try to find another job...maybe even a real job. Anyway, have a great one, Everybody!
They should learn Coal mining. Coal mining needs more diversity, equity and Inclusion.
Just got let go of my full time job as a tradesperson working 40+ hours a week.. It was a very physical job and I was looking forward to learning as much as I could and working at the company for a few years, but I was a first hire and first to go. It was a good experience working at that small business but I’m sure it was also due to the recession. I was told I could come back in a few months or a year, but I’m not sure what the future holds. Keep me in your prayers. I’m applying for any job I can now. I’m lucky I have some income still coming in, but it’s just the bare minimum. I hate this administration and can’t wait for a red wave to come and bring us more jobs and better job security.
Depending on the trade you can probably find a job fairly quickly if you have the experience.
@@Kirito14682 audio visual jobs are harder to come by, I’m taking the time now to build connections in the local community. I’ve gotten some good opportunities recently working multiple church jobs on salary, and through one of the churches I’ve really gotten my foot in the door for connections recently. Still working on it; it takes time to build rapport and establish yourself as a competent technician.
I’m a software developer. There are two basic types of us. The 3% who spend all day sweating spinal fluid to sort out other peoples mess and the rest, who make the mess. As far as I can tell, this doesn’t seem to have a lot to do with the current economic situation because there are more hiring opportunities than I have seen in a long time (including from companies who have been laying people off). Having spoken to some other people, the recession seems to be an excuse to get rid of the “dead wood” without people looking too closely. I wish I could be laid off though, 6 months severance sounds awesome!
When the Asian chick in the vid said there didn't seem a "rhyme or reason" to the layoffs and it wasn't "performance based", I was callin' bs.
This is how it is in any field. A small minority does the majority of work. The rest just make the day more difficult
I think Elon just made it easier for everyone to trim their fat all at the same time.
@@SaintStrength0 ‘But I was such a hard worker!!!’
The 3% doing all the work need to stop, you are allowing the lazy people to get away with what they do, or rather don't do
I was laid off from my tech job a few months ago. Not all of us are like these spoiled "influencers" that spent their days at headquarters making tiktoks. They make up for only a small number of the total employees that were let go. The majority of us that were laid off worked either in engineering, support, or manufacturing roles.
Let me know if they answer to you on telegram. I got the same message you did, but I cannot find Brett's account
Trust me, most people don't see software developers as this. I'm far from a professional but I have dabbled in code before because I legitimately think it's fun.
With that being said it can be incredibly stressful especially when you can't find an issue with the code and your deadline is coming up. I've always wanted to pursue a career in it but I don't think I could do it. It's incredibly intricate and I've seen how seriously people take it.
I'm glad you were laid off, your kind would've programmed anything they wanted you to and you wouldn't care if it destroys society or not because you got a good job
@@Girtharmstrong69 Projection is real here
You were made redundant ? Or they just don't have the money
As a German I'm just shocked how you can lose your job in the US over night. Especially the pregnant woman at the end... That seems so cruel. In Germany you have between 2 weeks and 3 months (depending on the contract) to adapt to the situation and find a new job.
It's not like that specially at big techs. You're let go overnight, but you get severance worth at least a month's salary
Very few private workers in the US are under contact. Even fewer (outside of government) belong to labor unions.
Our generation saw the collapse of communism and the rise of the internet. Back in the 1960s doing business overseas was slow and expensive. And risky: Nobody knew which country would be the next to fall to the communists. So American companies played it safe and kept the jobs in the US. Today a tech company can email an assignment anywhere - China, Vietnam, Cambodia - and have them do it in a matter of days, or even hours. American workers are very replaceable.
My aunt works at Microsoft. Small office, medium sized break room on her floor, but she works many hours and often doesn’t have time to take a big or multiple breaks. She likes her job, hates the company, but it has enough benefits that she stays.
My brother in law worked at Google, he typically works 14-16 hr days... He didn't get fired, and barely used any of the amenities.
Let me guess, he spend night working there too
@@zerotodona1495 nah. But he did ride the Google bus 1.5 hrs each way. It had WiFi so would start working immediately upon getting on.
What they didn’t mention, at least at the Manhattan site I visited with a friend, was that you have to badge in for those amenities. They’re trying to tell you it wasn’t performance based but they honestly think a tech giant who traffics in data couldn’t do a simple cost benefits analysis by tracking where they were over time and how much they cost the company? Value added is always the way to go, whether it is hours, cost savings, or efficiency.
What's amazing is that I have friends in tech they are programmers and managers and they have known for months these layoffs were going to happen. The only people blind sided was the ones that were getting let go.
Husband worked in tech for two decades-hard work, be available 24/7 (take equipment with us while camping and check in 15 miles away multiple times a day), and any small error could shut down the system in the SF Bay Area. They don’t pay well when the government is the contractor; the benefits were barely med/dental. Beyond burnout!
Watching these “employees” is angering. Hopefully they will get to know real work now.
As a former teacher and current stay at home mom to toddlers and a baby, these people are TRIGGERING. They have no idea what work is. Exactly as Brett said, their work day looks SO hard… good riddance to them!
Yes! I work from home with 3 kids, one of whom is a toddler. I'm lucky if I get even a second for myself. Boo-hoo to these entitled people.
They are working 50-60 Hours a week. Its a psychological tool that these workplaces are designed like this yes they take a 15 min nap but feel guilty and work an hour more. They have food on side so they do lunch breaks with there co workers and keep talking about the job. And if you don't fall in line you coworkers will ask you first politely why you don't work 50 hours then they ask more often and not so nice why you don't fall in line. So you squeeze the time and life out of these people, but when they noticing it, its allready to late and there burned out and getting replaced.
I work in fabrication in a factory and this makes me hate humanity
yeah, im sure youre breaking your back lifting remote putting on baby cartoons on
@@limiwa On the plus side, this is the perfect opportunity to fix the deficit of women doing Alaskan crab fishing or working the platform on drilling rigs.
I remember when I was in high school (10 years ago) and how wild guidance counselors acted trying to convince everyone to get tech jobs-because we would have “that one job for life.” 🙄
In the late 90's and 00's it truly was a tech boom, so it's understandable that tech seemed like the holy grail of cushy white-color job where you'd be set for life. Too bad people couldn't envision a massive stagnation hitting this decade.
These people didn’t have tech jobs. They ad jobs at a eh company doing nonsense like content moderation, equity, recruiting, HR, etc. These are not programmers or engineers. It’s likely the diversity and inclusion and this was a way for all these big companies to save money and not get a backlash for just getting rid of those jobs. All the tech companies just dropped them because it’s a waste of money. I have a tech job and recruiters are reaching out like crazy at the beginning of the year.
@@HeroSword_Pthere was a sizable cadre of U.S. warning about focusing on “tech jobs” back then. I’m be been warning people off of tech for over 15 years. It isn’t the glamorous life it is portrayed as, and at almost if not all of the big ones it is a modern sweatshop.
@@HeroSword_Pnot to mention the 90s tech boom busted in the late 90s and early 00s.
ChatGPT and LLMs have entered the chat.
(No. Not to save your tech job... but to take it.)
Mechanic here. Playing my tiniest of violins for these tech people.
One thing I noticed, When the "Influencers" were filming...there were no other employees around. No one was using the massage chairs except her.
Just to be clear, 99.9% of tech companies are not like that. The day of a dev is more: 2h of meetings in the morning, squeeze into your cubicle and get some work, 30m lunch because your boss wants you to finish of some last minute task, a bug in the softare is detected and you'll have to spend an hour explaining how it could happen. Then you work 1-2h unpaid overtime to finish your impossible deadline. When you come home your brain is fried and you don't feel for doing anything. Most companies only have a coffee machine.
Also 95% of devs are guys, it's strange to see so many female tech workers
Those females are most likely diversity hires.
Keep in mind a lot of them aren’t in dev. More of them are in marketing or auxiliary positions.
Usually it's just a drip coffee machine, like Mr. coffee or smth
@@TheBaumcm EXACTLY LMAO OMG , So true. 😂😂 Or in UX/UI team that dabble on a few graphics,
while the rest of us SWE have to break our brains until we crawl into a corner and cry because something broke and we can't fugure out what broke.
Then several days later, 4 people figured out that it was a comma or an argument that was mistyped or placed in the wrong function. LOL
True. It's easier for me as an entry level, but more hard and interesting stuff is coming. Those TikTok people ain't doing a favor.
The research scientist who went to work at 4 am to finish up an important analysis, only to find his badge didn't work? He sounded like a serious worker. The pregnant woman at the end with the incredibly good attitude? I can respect that, too.
My aunt works in google. Well she technically works overseas so its hard for her to come back home but she only has holidays to come home and has to work 10-14 hours a day. I asked her about those google workers influencers and she told me most of them probably does menial jobs and doesn't handle a lot of workload.
About letting people know in advance they're getting laid off in the tech industry. Letting them know in advance often opens you up to sabotage. That's why their emails and computer accounts are locked and inaccessible. It's a very common and wise action in the industry.
Someone's gotta do a day in a life of an oil rig worker.
Is that a bot
We should all strive for better work conditions, but these people were rubbing in everyone's faces what their "Job" was
Edit to add: side note: when I visited the Manhattan site a few years ago, pre COVID, they had to badge in at every location, and when they grabbed food or any of the freebies. They honestly want me to believe that they worked for a big tech firm that specializes in data and didn’t ever once consider that the company could do a simple cost benefits analysis per employee to determine where the cutoff would be and that cutoff would be enacted under the current economic conditions.
No one worried about the people in my town who were laid off when Obama canceled the Marine One project. None of them worried about the mom and pop shops that couldn’t survive when they were all working from home, afraid and lazy. None of them worried when they were posting tone deaf videos about how little they did during the day. They all seemed to be fine as long as their politics didn’t touch them with consequences.
As an employee in a private big tech company I can relate that stability is not a mayor point and most of the time work reductions happen and more often than one would want, as she mentioned is all about buisness, there is a little of individual performance taken into account but sometimes its just a number and a quota needed to be reached.
Thank you for being objective about it and giving multiple perspective about the situation, it helped a lot, specially in these days.
I said the same thing yesterday, that Elon brought about this idea that tech giants needed to look at their unnecessary employees.
Elon is riding a wave as necessary opposition, the human first duh choice..... then youll get a chip and keep on twitting.
They probably wanted to do this over a long period of time but feared the backlash. Elon swallowed the waves for them. Now we are not really paying attention to it.
@@Cdramaclips1 You're probably right. Elon takes the heat, while every other company gets to dump their garbage employees without negative press.
Especially since his layoffs have not negatively impacted the ways Twitter delivers.
The ending made me think of a quote that goes "Hard times make strong people, strong people make easy times, easy times make weak people, weak people make hard times"
We really do just go in a constant circle
It tickles me that she thought she should have been "consulted" about the lay-offs. Maybe she meant she wanted a "heads-up" that lay-offs would be occurring or she wanted a face-to-face meeting in which a human told her she was being fired, but those things are not a "consult."
Just a note about that massive hangar and why it has multiple museums in it. It's the Howard Hughes hangar where he made the Spruce Goose, as well as played a staging role during WWII. Funny story, I worked for Electronic Arts at their LA campus that is across the street from there in the mid 2000's (long before it became Googles LA campus), and they were building new condo's and apartments on what was the end of the old runway closest to the ocean. They found a bunch of bombs while digging one day (as in the bombs you'd load onto B-17s during the war and drop on cities) and they called an emergency evacuation of the whole area! Turns out they were just un-used empty casings they filled with concrete and buried, but fun times!!!
Anyways, there's a TON of history about that hangar and it's airport. Also fun fact, since that was one of the largest hangar style buildings of it's kind, a lot of movie studios would rent it to build massive sets in! The original Independence Day, Titanic, Iron Man 1, and the original Avatar all filmed in that hangar (along with a lot more)!! So there's also a lot of Hollywood history in that building as well.
That’s cool to know! I worked for the company that bought the spruce goose and brought it up to Oregon. So seeing what happened to the hangar was interesting.
It was probably a condition of being able to use the building, as it has historical value.
Most of these influencers were recruiters or tech recruiters. The process to actually get into Google as a developer is notoriously difficult. This was true at least a few years ago.
Brett, your transitions to the advertisements are so smooth, ah!!
Yours are the only adds I'm willing to fully watch lol
Supposedly those meta employees laid off got $88,000 severance. I’m guessing most of these employees got good size severances unlike trade workers that just get to go onto unemployment if they’re lucky to even get that
I am a civil engineer and so that is my frame of reference. A firm will get awarded a nice project and have to hire 10 new employees. Things go well and the project is finished. For awhile all 10 employees are kept on but the work load no longer requires all 10 of these folks. The leadership team looks over all ten and decides to keep the 7 best hires. The other 3 are now out looking for work with another firm that just got awarded a big new project. And the wheel keeps turning
“You just got laid off from Google, what are you gonna do next?!”
“I’m going to Disney Land!”
Lol.
This is a great lesson to always live BELOW your means, because you never know when the Fit will hit the Shan. If you live in a modest house that suits your needs you will not panick when something comes flying in from out of left field.
Or simply buy what you can afford?
I got laid off during covid and started another job 2 days later. These people will be alright, they just need to grow up and realize the world doesn’t care about them
An auto email? I love how these companies don’t even have the stones to fire people in person.
If they did it in person, those people would try to cancel them to get revenge.
I don't think it's about not having the stones. They just view their employees as beneath them.
The one that hit home for me was the ‘going to work at 4am to finish what I’ve been working on… but my badge didn’t work’ that was a hard worker who started early and probably worked late, and didn’t post day-in-the-life tik toks. Almost 20 years with the company and they said ‘peace out’ with an email
Imagine how long that would take? With thousands to fire...
The company sent them an email and locked them out of their emails.
I'm also a software dev, not in silicon valley but like my office doesn't have the stupid ass massage chairs, or a nap room, I have a cubicle where I do my work and that's it. Do your work to the best of your ability and hopefully when it comes down to it you can be valuable enough to not be one laid off
I have a strict WFH policy. Because I don't like having to commute to an office and limit the companies I can work for. I am way more productive working from home and I don't like having to be forced to interact with other people. If I have to go to an office to work, you aren't going to get more work out of me than 8 hours. But because I work from home, I will actually work more due to my insomnia.
@@GameDevMadeEasy That's fair, I have the option to WFH though I moved within a 10 min drive of my office so I could work there. Did the WFH stuff for 2 years for school and found I started to go a bit nuts without human interaction. So I now have a small apartment and go to the office most days, even if there's only one or two people in there with me it's nice to have a strict distinction between work and home
I am also a WFH fan. However if someone hires me and requires me to go to the work place, provides allowance for that and a reasonable deadline, I'd comply. That is simply because it's their company not mine, they make the rules of THEIR company, not me. If I still want to WFH, I can talk to them and see how it works out.
I would acknowledge that I found the company existent. I only joined to replace someone and thus I can also be replaced.
As a recently retired gal who gets diddly-shit in SS that I paid into for 40 years, who put herself thru college & grad school, who was a single parent for many years (no help from govt or family) I am Appaled at the audacity & egotistical selfishness of these so-called “workers”!! I’ve always had to take Unpaid time for lunch, had to provide my Own food, sacrificed my own health & food needs to ensure my children got basic necessities etc etc.
No wonder our country is going to hell so quick . . These folks don’t know what real work is!! But then again I was raised by frugal parents who survived the Great Depression & WWII . . So they knew how to scrimp & save & what having little meant. They instilled in me a solid work ethic!
"I took a quick break"... from napping? That made me laugh!
“I had a meeting in the harry poter conference room”
Shit really is like an entertainment park😂😂
I survived the purge at my workplace. Still working my 250k a year job to code from home in my pajamas. I save every dollar I can because the writing is on the wall.
I’m -1,200 in my account. I still get Starbucks every day. Live life. Don’t be a pussy. If your job goes another will come
Not a bad idea to save in gold and silver, seeing as the economy is run by twitz now.
@@insaneweasel1 Gold and silver is a boomer scam you're better putting your money in bitcoin and even that's a scam
What writing? Hello????
@@insaneweasel1 Are you Ben Shapiro? You can tell me if you are.
I love the tech company day in the life videos because it just looks like vacation lol. Like it looks so enjoyable and it's obviously hardly work. I'm going into tech and don't expect a workplace like this at all, but it looks so fun lol
I've always wanted to work in these big ABC firms but knowing this, working in a lean-centric company makes me feel more secured. The tasks never run out. Keep coding.
I would never post a layoff on social media, not even linkedin. When I was layed off a few years ago, no one knew and I was hired within a month.
I don't consider Brett a influencer, she's more like a visual Podcaster or a reporter on TV. I love how authentic she is though. There's the odd word she reads wrong, and I appreciate it. Hell, I'm lucky if I make it through a full sentence without stuttering at least once
That's the best kind of influencers. The ones you don't see.
She's absolutely an influencer
I like her but her voice grates on me after about 3 minutes- I keep remembering why I can’t listen to her. I want to listen longer but my ears bleed
As someone else mentioned and I fully agree. A lot of them aren’t in dev. More of them are in marketing or auxiliary positions or UI-UX design. They never touch code. 😂
Strictly speaking, everybody is an influencer - also those who have never been on the internet. Our words and actions have an effect on others in any sphere of life. I agree though that slapping that label on Brett is not fair as it lumps her in with the numerous useless people in the online world who cannot find actual jobs because they have no skills other than seeking attention/validation. So, in the online context, I don't consider her an "influencer" either although she has a vastly bigger impact on people's perceptions of issues than your regular 'influencer' has. And even though I do not always subscribe to her point of view (I mostly do), I certainly respect her as a very credible and also relatable influencing force.
I’m an industrial welder, I deal with lots of repairs, welding, and fitting. The amount of money that these “influencers” were getting paid to walk around on their phone is MIND BLOWING.
Same I work Tig welding in Stainless steel and been working 10 hours over 6 days a week and barely get by making under $50k-$60k a year. Meanwhile these people get $100k-$250k to act entitled. I hate the modern world. The jesters have become more noble than the knights and blacksmiths....
Don’t worry brother, their time’s up. The real world has entered the chat!
@@UItraVice how the hell are you only getting $50 -$60k/yr? TIG welding is such a valuable skill.
@@hugoballs Because the job I am at trained me on the job and we weld thin Sheet metal. I weld parts for expensive 10k ovens that go in restaurants and rich Homes. The issue is that the technique we use is not "Stacking dimes" or the usual technique. We basically shoot a straight bead and make it as smooth and thin as possible because Sheet metal melts very easily. I should mention it's stainless steel also.
We had many welders come into our plant that say they can weld anything and failed because we weld so backwards to what they do. Unfortunately because this was how I was trained, it's hard for me to leave because most metals won't hold with a straight bead. I was never trained otherwise. So by default they can afford to pay me less because they trapped me with experience on the job training.
@@UItraVice have you consider learning how to stack dimes outside of work? i would imagine that your work experiences would translate well towards that.
I love how her first instinct after getting let go was to spend money and blog about it. 🙄 If I saw how many people got laid off, and that I was one of them, I'd update my resume and start applying got jobs THAT DAY! Before any of those other fckers could get to them 😆
As a aged care worker i wish my job was like this so chill. you're always under the pump and when u aren't then something terrible happens. ps it never ends. it always something
My brother is a higher up at Google. His second wedding was filled with “Googlers” and there was a culty feel to it (similar to when I worked at Disney).
His first job with the company was at the Manhattan office and there is a ton of unnecessary shit. His exact words were “this is what happens when a company has too much money,” but in reality, nobody actually uses that shit (other than the free drinks and snacks)… it’s a RECRUITING TOOL.
When you have all this cool pointless shit all over that makes it look like a relaxing place to work, more people want to work there. When more people want to work there, you have the most talented people in the world to hire.
My brother works his ass off (constantly flies to Switzerland, Sweden and Canada along with several cities in the US- AND had to live in Zurich for 3 years). Accounts like these are just used to make more people want to work there- the nap rooms are only really used by people who traveled to the office for a few hours and that are flying back home.
I will say though I’ve heard several stories about Google employees forgetting they need to pay for little things because they get so used to grabbing shit and going about their day.
Google has a bunch of different projects and have a really serious competition with Apple (once people use Apple products, they buy more Apple products that link to them and something like 2 in every hundred people who own more than one Apple product are willing to buy a non Apple linked product).
While accounts like these make people outside of these tech giants think it’s all steaks and blowjobs at these companies, for the actual people who are engineers it can be a stressful gig. Being able to unwind or step away from a problem you are trying can make a huge difference.
But ya from the outside looking in (I’m a conservative, and I’m a chef), they can seem pretty silly- and when you get Google people together outside of Google, it gets cringe in a hurry😂😂😂
if only google gave this money to charity or to the needy...
But no we need massages
@@natiart if only Google would give this to charity…. Then all the best employees would go to the company that did give them this crap…
It's definitely culty. I've met "ex Googlers" and they're almost always cunts that believe that they've worked in google means they're more qualified than the rest of us.
I think that most or the advantages in Google, are for real workers. They have to brake there minds to create New this for us TEC dummies. That's why the
Y have some many nice free things. For the other "workers" they took advantage of it, they think they are entitled and don't do anything to deserve this advantages. Sorry for the real workers that were layed of.
I love Brett's mannerisms. I think they're a big part of what makes her so endearing.
They work in Google to automate everything from A to Z, which includes automating their own jobs. What do they expect after years of working there? More hiring / firing?
Influencers: "I sit around all day eating snacks, and getting massages. My job is sooooooooooo cushy!"
Boss: "You're fired. "
I’ve worked in the tech industry for 23 years and it’s always been super competitive … I’ve always felt that any job was good for about 3-5 years. Some have lasted much longer, but my attitude and perspective fueled my desire to work harder, be better, deliver more value than my competitors … whether they were my co-workers, or someone from outside trying to get my job. Have I been subject to layoffs? Yes, just like everyone else in tech. Has it made me more competitive, more driven to excellence? Absolutely.
You’re not entitled to your job - each day I still have my job is a new opportunity to show my boss, my company just how much they need me.
Finally somebody who says this. There’s no guarantee that your employers won’t be hesitant to find your replacement for any reason.
Even when you’re employed, look out for better opportunities. Corporate loyalty won’t put food on the table in this economy.
Big company losing revenue...this is what happens when the people realize that you've been lying to them, spying a bit too much on them, stealing from them and pushing multiple agendas.
I was one of the ppl that were laid off from Amazon at random but I say again and I always will… Brett’s ad segway are FREAKING AMAZING lmao
The nature of my job is just that I can go from being super super busy and other days are a lot slower and there just isn’t as much to do. But I’m not dumb enough to make it known that there are certain periods of time where I have less to do lol
You kinda just did...
This is exactly why you should never film yourself goofing off at work ;)
I must say that it's not only the tech industry. I worked for a company that supplied things to tech companies and was laid off due to lack of orders. It was an industry wide trickle down effect. I've been homeless for 3 weeks in Dallas now.
Oh my gosh 🤣 you start going over the severance packages and I just had a crazy thought.
Google: "So we're laying you off, but we're still going to pay you for a few more months and we'll help you find a new job."
Employee: "Oh my gosh, that's so generous. Well gee, you don't have to do that. How about since you're still paying me I'll come in and do my job until the severance pay ends and I'll also look for new work during that time?"
Google: "...all you do is sit in conference rooms and drink all our coffee. We can't afford for you to come in and do your job. It's cheaper if you stay at home."
"A Day in the Life of a Government-Contracted Programmer"
So today, I drove my sorry behind into work despite the snow advisory. Our client changed all of the requirements for the next set of deliverables, so that requires a couple late-nights of code-crunching where management will be riding our butts. I did get a two-minute break to hit the complementary Keurig for some much needed cheap caffeine. And as I'm sipping my crappy coffee, I just got an email stating the client changed their mind again and now requires us to completely rewrite the security of our app to integrate with their software. Follow me to find out how much it'll cost to set an appointment with a psychiatrist that I can't afford and don't have time to visit!"
🤣🤣🤣🤣
There was always going to be a mass layoff after covid. The tech industry has its best years but now it’s settling after the spike in interest. Losing your job is horrible and I hope they find a new position quickly but it’s just an unfortunate impact of the last 3 years
In other words, it’s the product of keep everything shut down because I don’t wanna have to go to work. They are suffering the consequences of their own politics.
Thank you! I keep having to explain to all my friends and family why this is happening. I still think companies could have been better prepared for the impact. Like did they really think that nothing was going to change after COVID
Gotta say your ad read segues are so smooth
@7:07 I like how the text said "Feel Free to give me a call" because saying Hey, Please give me a call when you have a minute" is so aggressive
In 2019 I was let go after 11 years at a company and was devastated and lost… but now I work for an amazing company with tons of growing opportunities, top notch morale, and really down to earth people… it was a blessing in disguise to be let go because I’m so happy now! In hindsight I stayed at my other company too long and should have left several years prior when things started to change drastically. Our office kitchen is fully stocked with all the goodies and we get free lunch catered every day, but the kitchen is only busy during lunch because the rest of the time everyone’s working their butts off and killin it! If you are let go, use it as an opportunity to find something you really love and put yourself out there for a new adventure!
The last bit of the video was very inspirational to me. I am fortunate to not be out of work, but I am literally applying for an entirely different role tomorrow and the conversation with my current boss is going to be uncomfortable to say the least. Thank you for the encouragement and all of the great content!
We need some things to be shook up and lots of ppl to wake up snd get out of those nap rooms.
That "Why" around 4:30 made me giggle. Whhyy.
Everyone knows when they get hired and sign their salary contract. Right at the bottom before the signature and date. The company specify that they can terminate you without a warning or cause if they want. DUH! That means, DO NOT MESS AROUND OR WE WILL CAN YOU.
Well said.
Maybe I should do a day in the life of a realistic college student.
Day 1) I woke up, grabbed coffee and stressed if I was missing any assignments.
I then got ready for work and left...I spent 5 hours at work for minimum wage job and got yelled at by snobby Karen's because we didn't have a product that they saw online.
I then left and headed home.
I have no money because of rent, so I debate what to do for dinner.
I decided on canned soup that was on a 5 for $5 deal and hotdogs with regular bread before either goes bad....the bread was already bad.
I then spent 5 hours doing homework until 11pm when I decided to take a cold shower because the hot water has already been used up by other tenets. And then I gamed until 1am and continued to stress over homework.
I then went to bed after cuddling my bunny.
Like and follow to get repeated the same story for the next 365 days this year!!!
This would be great. Some actual reality for people
My experience was way worse. but a typically day was. Wake up half asleep to your dorm roomates mysterious morning smells, hop in the shower and change and realize you have 10 minutes to get to your 8am class. Barely, make it in time and join in the group of what answer did you get for any of the homework that everyone stayed up until 3am trying to figure out. Sit through a Vietnamese lecture and realize that it was in English and you are in Engineering class. Then the teacher says something you can understand "So EASY", as he solves each homework problem in one step by using a method he hasn't taught us yet. Join in an argument with your classmates on if he was saying "In here now" "all right now" or "over here now" after everything he said and then wonder why he kept saying that. 9am Organic chemistry name this molecule pop quizzes 1,3 -RZ trimethylethanoldibromidodecahedroncalifragilisticespialidoescious. Failed that class. 10am more engineering by a German guy named Adolf (seriously), 11am Vector Statics "Look around you, half of you will fail this class, good luck." 12am lunch at the cafeteria, consisting of the creative way they recycled the left over dinner from the night before, cheddar cheese lasagna sloppy joes. Mostly, one giant blur. Also had a differential calculus class taught by a gothic guy that worked at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, his classes were 7pm-9pm and his tests were at least 3 hours long and everyone can stay as late as they needed to finish and were allowed to use any notes or homework assignments and it still took at least 3 hours to complete.
As for dinner, Top Ramen was still 10 for $1 and Little Caesars was $5 for a pepperoni pizza and Subway was still $5 ~foot long.
"tenants" if you're in college you should probably know that. ;P
@@SamBrickell lol I wrote this on my phone, the same phone that also doesn't believe my name is spelled correctly and tries to rearrange it on its own XD
But your also not wrong. XD I should know it....lets just be glad it wasn't math
One thing I found out managing large teams and this is solid as a rock. Say you have a team of 30 people take square root of the size of your team. In this case 30 which 5.47 round up to 6 and that's the number of the people doing 90% of the work! Find those people give them a raise/promotion and fire the rest!
I couldn't be happier to hear of their newly found struggles in life. Brett is way sweeter than I am. God bless her.
The only perk I get from my job is a poke in the eye. I’m grateful for it.
Brett, I enjoyed the uncertainty segment at the end.
I’m getting out of the Marine Corps in about a year. I’m in a debate between either doing my Masters, going straight into the civilian workforce, or something else I don’t even know yet. I have the best problem right now of too many options.
I’m not a stranger to big life changes, but uncertainty and change is usually scary but also so exciting. It’s a feeling I hope everyone experiences and thrives from.
Love you and your staff’s work. Keep it up!
Aren't Tech jobs typically temporary?
YEP. 95% of these people will be out of the industry in a decade or two, most will be replaced by a younger generation.
@@HighwayLand Says who?
@@UserRobot215 My Uncle Bill worked 18 years for IBM in Los Angeles and he was replaced, along with most of the guys he knew. Thankfully he retired after 20 years in the Air Force, but I am sure he could have made a ton of money if he retired with IBM.
Technically
I have been to the google office in my country for a tour because my friends dad is a higher up in the company and invited our class and all i have to say is no one uses the nap room and all those extra rooms like you would only see like one person and they would be on break like they have a whole rooftop playground/garden and not a soul was in sight like no one that worked their used it and it was beautiful
I find it disturbing that you can get fired without a proper reason in the US, also that you can get fired after 17 years if you did nothing wrong is just mind blowing to me. Makes me happy to live where this is not allowed by law 😅 not saying everyone deserves their job and that they are needed, but big companies should not be allowed to hire 12k extras to then change their mind over night.
I'm a based nurse and man this was salt in the wound. Day in the life making multiple times more than I do ....to take naps, eat free food and maybe code a little. Almost wish I had been born with a techy mind rather than a bleeding heart 🤣 jk I love my job but I had no idea thats what a Google employees work day looked like 🙃
Yep.. I agree! Nurses think it’s a good day if we get to actually sit down and eat lunch! 😂 but still love nursing! ❤
@@lindasteinbrenner8065 preach girl . My bladder is permanently stretched and sometimes wish I had a leg bag....but man I love the job and the people! I'm med/surg how about you!
I would go insane if I had a tech job! I am a local truck driver who works 40 to 50 hours a week, and I volunteer as a firefighter/emt for our local fire crew on the side, and I love nearly every minute of what I do.
It's mentally draining though, different type of job. The concentration and problem solving ability you need to be an actual good software engineer is incredibly high. Most people would not even be able to get a (Bachelor's) CS degree I'd imagine.
Don't let those girls fool you, that's not what most devs are like. Those extra things are there to prevent burnout since it's a rich company.
@@Alan_the_Red totally fair. ....just wish Healthcare had the same ....very mentally draining with very little support or mental health resources.
When my dad had to take a layoff because of the recession of '09, we scheduled all of our medical appointments so that we still had health insurance coverage for some expensive procedures. We did not go "eat our feelings" at Disneyland or even McDonald's I assure you.
I've subscribed!!! 😆😆 I 💗 your show!!
While watching this had an article up on Amazon’s unregretted attrition (URA) where senior leaders were give numbers of how many employees they had to lose in the given year.
I remember touring the Google Plex in SF around 2006 because my uncle worked there, and even back then it basically looked like this. We were absolutely amazed at all of the free stuff and cool amenities. I don't know if they were the first tech company to be like that, but it's not new.
Same. I got to check out the site in Manhattan about 5 years ago and everything was like that but I had to wonder if it was more for PR than anything else. When times are tough and the world is struggling, they no longer needed tone deaf influencers.