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    • nadnerB
      nadnerB @scottalanmiller last edited by

      @scottalanmiller said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:

      @nadnerB said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:

      Well, that sucks. I hate to see companies do badly because it effects the staff so much. Especially since you lot have that horrendous medical insurance scam.

      Once you get laid off you often get improved health care.

      Well, that's nice but it's always easier to find a job when you have a job.

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        StorageNinja Vendor @Grey last edited by

        @Grey They may have tied it to being global offsite, meet up etc. There's value in getting large groups together once a year.

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        • scottalanmiller
          scottalanmiller @StorageNinja last edited by

          @John-Nicholson said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:

          @Grey They may have tied it to being global offsite, meet up etc. There's value in getting large groups together once a year.

          Yeah, I know other companies that do that without even having the conference. I'm not fully convinced of the value in any case, but there is a case for it. It's like "team building" but it is more like "crappy vacation."

          What's odd, though, is that the local people rarely attended.

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          • JaredBusch
            JaredBusch @scottalanmiller last edited by

            @scottalanmiller said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:

            @JaredBusch said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:

            @DustinB3403 said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:

            Yeah I don't seem to be able to find it, too bad.

            You can only access it if you are Thai or higher.
            https://community.spiceworks.com/private/spicy-peppers

            And only some of them, I can't see that page 😉

            Only because you were removed by choice. It is an automatic system event that has to be overridden manually for someone not to see it.

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            • JaredBusch
              JaredBusch @scottalanmiller last edited by

              @scottalanmiller said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:

              @Son-of-Jor-El said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:

              @DustinB3403 Thai...I think there are even more as you go up. Unconfirmed though.

              It's not automatic. Nearly everyone gets it, but not all.

              Spicy Peppers is a 100% automated process.

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              • JaredBusch
                JaredBusch @DustinB3403 last edited by

                @DustinB3403 said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:

                Yeah I don't seem to be able to find it, too bad.

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                • ChrisL
                  ChrisL @scottalanmiller last edited by

                  @scottalanmiller said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:

                  They are a marketing company and so a ton of the staff are marketing roles. Whether it is physical stuff like graphic artists that make ads to marketing consultants for vendors. Then they have a massive media department that does full TV style production with studios, editing, writing, etc. Then there is the normal IT staff, but that's like three or four people. Lots of management. Community management I feel was five or six people last that I was there. There is a content generation department. Sales was a huge department. There is a group that does conferences. Account management. Regional management. And then there was a group that made the software too and that team was enormous. You'd think that it was just one or two people but they had dozens of them; even almost ten years ago. What they all do we could never figure out, but there were tons. Then there is product support teams, Q&A and stuff like that.

                  More to this end--I deal with 3 people directly for our account.

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                    Jimmy9008 last edited by

                    It is such a shame. I do feel bad for those who are gone and only hope they can find something better. 12% is not small.
                    I think they recently removed the job board section (not that I used it), perhaps it would have been better to leave such a section up to help those people to find new jobs before removal. Probably wouldn't have helped them, but it is less cruel that way.

                    Remove job page, sack people < Sack people, help them use the page to find job (possibly), remove job page.

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                    • aaron-closed account
                      aaron-closed account Banned @scottalanmiller last edited by

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                      • ChrisL
                        ChrisL @RojoLoco last edited by

                        @RojoLoco said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:

                        Wow, just saw this news... but I'm not that surprised considering the activity over there had slowed to a trickle (and was often noob questions from people who have no business setting up systems). Plus the fact that they had been actively alienating their long time users. When my account got put into the moderation time out corner this last time, I stopped posting there altogether. If they cancel spiceworld, I better get my money back.

                        I was wondering where you went over there.

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                        • Nic
                          Nic last edited by

                          I'm organizing folks to help find people new jobs here:
                          https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1680735-spiceheads-and-green-guys-gals-assemble

                          If you have any leads please post them.

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                          • RojoLoco
                            RojoLoco @ChrisL last edited by

                            @ChrisL said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:

                            @RojoLoco said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:

                            Wow, just saw this news... but I'm not that surprised considering the activity over there had slowed to a trickle (and was often noob questions from people who have no business setting up systems). Plus the fact that they had been actively alienating their long time users. When my account got put into the moderation time out corner this last time, I stopped posting there altogether. If they cancel spiceworld, I better get my money back.

                            I was wondering where you went over there.

                            Yup, done. No more technical help from me (what little that amounts to). Funny thing was that I got more best answers / helpful posts when I was being snarky.

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                            • bbigford
                              bbigford last edited by

                              Wow, 12%... that's really sad. I've been reading through the comments here but don't see why they cut so many jobs. They may have debt, but 12%? That's crazy.

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                              • scottalanmiller
                                scottalanmiller @bbigford last edited by scottalanmiller

                                @BBigford said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:

                                Wow, 12%... that's really sad. I've been reading through the comments here but don't see why they cut so many jobs. They may have debt, but 12%? That's crazy.

                                12% is the layoff number, not the cut number. It's more like 20% we hear.

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                                • Nic
                                  Nic last edited by

                                  There's some other people that voluntarily left before the layoffs were announced, so I hear.

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                                  • bbigford
                                    bbigford @scottalanmiller last edited by

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:

                                    @BBigford said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:

                                    Wow, 12%... that's really sad. I've been reading through the comments here but don't see why they cut so many jobs. They may have debt, but 12%? That's crazy.

                                    12% is the layoff number, not the cut number. It's more like 20% we hear.

                                    If 12% is made up of people laid off, what is the other 8% made up of? Did those people quit or something?

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                                    • KatieUnitrends
                                      KatieUnitrends Vendor last edited by

                                      Even if Spiceworks isn't quite your thing today, many of us have benefited in some way from a Spiceworks program at some point, and more importantly, probably know someone who was affected, so keep your eyes open for job opportunities that you can share with these former Spiceworks employees to help them get back on their feet soon.

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                                      • scottalanmiller
                                        scottalanmiller last edited by

                                        If you look at their business model, it's unlikely that shedding 12% is anywhere near enough, but shedding any more would likely have triggered employee protections (requirements for warning, severance and things like that.) But they've never had revenue anywhere close to being able to support the staff size. If they don't have VC money flowing in to keep them running, they can't keep the staff around. I'd expect a minimum of 80% cuts unless some miracle happens. It's just a matter of waiting out the layoff time locks so that they can shed what they need. And, hopefully, people will find other work and leave voluntarily speeding up the process.

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                                        • Minion Queen
                                          Minion Queen Banned last edited by

                                          @Nic has started a thread just for that: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1680735-spiceheads-and-green-guys-gals-assemble

                                          Please go on over and show them all some love!

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                                          • scottalanmiller
                                            scottalanmiller @Minion Queen last edited by

                                            @Minion-Queen said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:

                                            @Nic has started a thread just for that: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1680735-spiceheads-and-green-guys-gals-assemble

                                            Please go on over and show them all some love!

                                            Maybe a related thread here would make sense. Having a thread like that AT the company that just laid you off might not be ideal for employers looking for people.

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