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Remember in the hot 2021 hiring market when Coinbase revoked offers because of a layoff? I remember deciding they were on my blacklist after that. I thought their leadership and recruiting were too disorganized to trust with my career.

Of course you can lose your job at any time, but letting a candidate quit their old job and relocate and then get laid off is not something that should ever happen.

And now it's layoff season, and every big company has recently done this to huge numbers of people.

So as a labor force, what do we do about this? How to we protect ourselves now that the deal between employers and employees has broken down even further?



Keep growing that blacklist and put it online. The cornerstone of the free market is that you have to exercise your power of choice in intelligent pursuit of your best interests


If you buy a nice domain and add references to the list it would definitely end up on front page of HN.


Form a guild. Other professionals have organizations to protect them, engineers should too. This is the way.


What existing organization would have prevented what happened to OP?


None. A guild would fight with government for rights on his behalf.




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