diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml index 887b6ed..682a3ee 100644 --- a/.gitlab-ci.yml +++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ variables: # Major - Shouldn't change often, Big changes to the site # Minor - starts from 0 when Major is incremented +1 for each version that goes public # Release - For each time a development milestone is reached - VERSION: 1.0.1 + VERSION: 1.0.3 IMAGE_TAG: $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:$VERSION services: diff --git a/content/posts/twitch-layoffs.md b/content/posts/twitch-layoffs.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ad0c60 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/twitch-layoffs.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +title: Twitch Layoffs +date: 2023-03-29T12:39:05+01:00 +author: "ahmza" +draft: false +weight: + +tags: ["career","twitch"] +description: "" +canonicalURL: "https://blog.local.ahmza.com/Page%28/posts/twitch-layoffs.md%29" + +cover: + image: "webp/posts/twitch-layoffs/feature-anim.webp" # image path/url + alt: "Bleed Purple" # alt text + caption: "Bleed Purple" # display caption under cover + relative: false # when using page bundles set this to true + +--- + +# Mon 20 Mar 2023 +The news was broken to all Twitch employees that there was going to be a mass layoff that would nuke 1/5th of Twitch's workforce, +Just over 400 employees. We were not given a date that this would happen we were just told that it would be by the end of the week +or early the next week. + +# Fri 24 Mar 2023 +The day started with an announcement that Twitch would layoff 1/5th of its workforce. The anticipation of this moment through the +whole week left hundreds of us with a sick feeling in our stomachs. They had split the layoffs up between APAC, EMEA, And AMER. +APAC on the chopping block first. We saw people loose access and numbers from our #general slack channel dither. Each Region had +a 5 hour window where people would get dropped in waves. You were lucky to get dropped straight away instead of be part of the last +wave of people and have hopes that you might just be one of the people to survive. + +Luckily I was one of the folk that was able to keep their jobs this time. But 1/5th of the workforce has surely affected every person +that works at twitch. We all lost somebody we worked with or reported to and so morale has tanked this past week, and you can see it. +The #general channel is almost a bone yard. + +In my team the GSOC we lost our technicians, these amazing folk made our lives - the engineers - much easier as we no longer needed +to worry about emails and phone calls. Now that the Techs have gone this workload has been thrown back at us and it has shaken up +the way we got used to working. Our workflows have been disrupted and thus productivity has dropped massively. But not only when +it comes to work will we miss these people, The two Technicians that I worked with made the shift lively and I already miss our +interactions. + +# Conclusion +If you're reading this and you are a recruiter then please talk into account ex-twitch employees effected by this tragic event. + +Shout outs to: +- [Anastasia Limantzakis](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasia-limantzakis/) +- [Viktoria (Viki) Bagley](https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktoria-bagley-97a669206/) diff --git a/manifest/staging/dep-blog.yml b/manifest/staging/dep-blog.yml index f109eaa..7eba6e1 100644 --- a/manifest/staging/dep-blog.yml +++ b/manifest/staging/dep-blog.yml @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ spec: spec: containers: - name: blog-staging-app - image: registry.gitlab.com/ahmza/blog:1.0.0 + image: registry.gitlab.com/ahmza/blog:1.0.1 imagePullPolicy: Always ports: - name: web diff --git a/static/webp/posts/twitch-layoffs/feature-anim.webp b/static/webp/posts/twitch-layoffs/feature-anim.webp new file mode 100644 index 0000000..10eaa02 Binary files /dev/null and b/static/webp/posts/twitch-layoffs/feature-anim.webp differ