A laid-off Googler says colleagues should 'find perspective' about the recent layoffs: 'No one died. Seriously'

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during Google I/O 2016 at Shoreline Amphitheatre on May 19, 2016 in Mountain View, California. The annual Google I/O conference is runs through May 20.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent Alphabet, announced on January 20 that around 12,000 staff would be laid off.

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A Google engineer says survivors of the mass layoffs cried in meetings the day around 12,000 of their colleagues were culled

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In this Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, file photo, Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during a news conference in New Delhi.
Thousands of US-based Google employees woke up to an email on January 20 saying they'd been laid off.

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A Googler says he was laid off while caring for his terminally-ill mom — but would take another job at the company 'in a heartbeat'

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CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent Alphabet, said on January 20 the company will lay off about 12,000 employees.

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A Google recruiter says he discovered he'd lost his job after a call with one of his candidates suddenly disconnected

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CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent Alphabet, announced Friday the company will lay off about 12,000 employees.

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A Google employee of 11 years says he and his wife stared at each other in 'disbelief' when they realized they'd both been laid off by the company

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Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent Alphabet, said on Friday around 12,000 jobs would be cut.

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I got laid off from Amazon. The lack of transparency about why certain people were let go made the whole process extremely robotic.

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Amazon recently announced a layoff of 18,000 employees.

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A woman who worked for Google for almost a decade says she was in the hospital bed holding her hours-old newborn when she learned she was part of the 'golden12K' of laid-off Googlers

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Google let go of 31 massage therapists at its California offices amid mass layoffs

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27 massage therapists were laid off from Google's Mountain View office, pictured above.

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A laid-off Google employee says she went to Disneyland to 'eat her feelings' after being locked out of her company systems

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TikToker Nicole Tsai, who documents her life working as a Google, said in a post she went to "eat her feelings" at Disneyland after finding out she was laid off.

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I just got laid off from Google by email. The 'cold' and 'inhuman' way they treated employees is why I'm not going to reapply.

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Google laid off 12,000 workers on Friday following mass job cuts from Amazon and Microsoft.

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