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Bay Area Tech Firms Laying Off 1,200 Workers By Memorial Day (mercurynews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the up-next dept.

McGruber writes: SAP, Oracle America, PayPal, Instacart, Thin Film Electronics and other technology companies will cut about 1,200 jobs in the Bay Area between now and Memorial Day. According to WARN notices filed with California state labor officials, SAP will eliminate 446 jobs: 179 in Palo Alto, 173 in San Ramon and 94 in South San Francisco; while Oracle intends to cut 352 positions: 255 in Redwood City and 97 in Santa Clara. PayPal plans to reduce staffing levels by 183 jobs: 160 in San Jose and 23 in San Francisco. The South Bay job cuts are slated to occur at the e-commerce titan's offices on North First Street in San Jose. Thin Film Electronics has issued an alert of 54 upcoming job cuts in San Jose. Instacart, an e-commerce unicorn that offers a web-based same-day grocery delivery service, intends to eliminate 162 jobs: 86 positions in San Francisco, 41 in San Mateo, 15 in Oakland, 13 in Berkeley and seven in Campbell. For SAP, Oracle and PayPal, the majority of the employment reductions will be in software jobs.

3 of 117 comments (clear)

  1. Oh good, more homeless people in San Fran by nwaack · · Score: 3, Funny

    More poop in the streets. Yay!

  2. Re:How many are hiring? by sconeu · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Oracle's case, those are probably all lawyers.

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  3. Re: I've read the individual stories by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    It is time for America to be great again. Time to retrain these software engineers for the jobs of tomorrow's America. A green, rural America. Trump has announced that, by cutting job killing Clean Air regulations, these scientists and programmers will have a new career, in Clean, American Coal.

    We need miners. Miners to dig with picks and shovels, the coat we will need to power our future. A future without the combustion engine air travel or other dangerous, modern ideas. A world where a coal powered furnace fires the boilers that will render million of horses into tallow, glue and whips with which these workers will be motivated by the real Americans who bravely defend our ideals, unless they have a bone spur in a foot. I forget which one, even though it got him out of the draft. Five times. Unlike those suckers who actually fought with things other than words.

    #MAGA