r/Layoffs

“66 years old, 21+ years at the company. Started as junior QA, worked up to Release Manager. AI coming I am told. The AI gods are blanketing that company. My job was ripe for the picking. Part of a large layoff with list of ages and titles provided.”

“Company spent massive amount on Copilot and did layoffs. Then doubled down on AI and spent massive amount on Claude. Another round of layoffs followed. AI didn't take my job in the form of tasks, it took my portion of budget.”

“Company laid off ALL editorial staff — writers, editors, and fact checkers — once they got the hang of ChatGPT. Shifted half their tech team to take over those responsibilities. The owner told me directly. Company absolutely shouldn't be doing that because integrity of the product depended on that team.”

“Set up Collate AI as internal search tool. AI hallucinated a nonexistent pricing plan that CEO shared during a board call. Blame fell on me. Two weeks later, told team was being restructured. I was the only one actually let go.”

“I was laid off as part of the 2/10 performance cuts at Meta, connected to the Checkpoint AI tracking system.”