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Emergency Vote Aims to Prevent Massive Cuts and Layoffs
Oregon lawmakers will hold a special session on Aug. 29 to consider funding for the Oregon Department of Transportation. The governor's proposal includes...
https://www.bendsource.com/news/localnews/emergency-vote-aims-to-prevent-massive-cuts-and-layoffs/
The Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon
Aug/26/2025 10:24 PM
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City of Denver layoffs impact Denver's Climate Action, Sustainability and Resiliency Office

The City of Denver's Climate Action, Sustainability and Resiliency (CASR) office is feeling the impacts from citywide layoffs.

• https://www.denver7.com/news/environment/city-of-denver-layoffs-impact-denvers-climate-action-sustainability-and-resiliency-office
  Denver7
  Aug/26/2025 11:24 PM

Well, it’s over. Intel is no longer a runner in the game of capitalism. Suggestions for management, the board or the CEO are all irrelevant ant all his time. Intel is now a pariah to the mainstream capitalist economic system. Let it slowly sink in. Hire a therapist if necessary but It’s Over.

You are now working for the first State-Owned semiconductor corporation. Make sure you join the lottery for the opportunity to buy grocery’s at the forthcoming State-Owned grocery stores or a car from one of the the State-Owned automobile corporations.

• The layoffs primarily affect employees still in their probationary period, making them easier to dismiss, while public safety positions, including wildland firefighters, remain intact.
• The cuts coincide with the end of the “Fork in the Road” program, which offered employees to opportunity to resign while staying on the payroll through September.
• Other federal agencies, including the Department of Energy and Small Business Administration, are planning similar workforce reductions.

https://www.ehn.org/forest-service-layoffs-cut-10-of-agencys-workforce

If our taxes bought 10% of Intel, we want the next chip free. Interesting thing to think about?

Trump "America First" doctrine will mean the forced sale of Intel fabs outside of US. The fabs in Ireland and Israel are first on the chopping block, followed by the design centers in IDC Haifa and Bangalore. its over. Panther Lake will be the last product of Intel before selling this group to another fabless company.
Congratz LBT, you ki-led Intel. Good luck everyone.

The Trump administration plans to end or change the H-1B visa lottery, replacing random selection with a salary-based or weighted system. The Office of Management and Budget is reviewing the rule, which could take effect by March 2026 for the FY 2027 cap.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/07/21/new-trump-immigration-policy-ending-the-h-1b-visa-lottery/
A similar rule finalized in 2021 ranked applications by wage levels but was never implemented. That system would have excluded most Level 1 and many Level 2 workers, categories that include recent graduates and early-career professionals. The new rule’s title, “Weighted Selection Process,” suggests a lottery with higher chances for higher-paid applicants.

Critics argue this approach disadvantages international students and undervalues talent in lower-paid fields. More than 70% of U.S. graduate students in computer science and electrical engineering are international, and most are paid at Level 1 or Level 2. Employers in science, medicine and education could also be affected.

Opponents say the change conflicts with the Immigration and Nationality Act, which requires petitions to be considered in filing order. Business groups and universities warn the rule could weaken U.S. competitiveness by limiting young skilled workers. The broader issue remains the low annual H-1B cap, which covers only a small fraction of the labor force and leaves high demand unmet.

Quick Numbers Rollup:

• 85,000 total H-1B cap (65,000 regular plus 20,000 advanced degree)
• 343,981 eligible registrations for FY 2026
• Nearly two-thirds of registrations rejected due to cap limits
• More than 70% of graduate students in computer science and electrical engineering are international
• 83% of computer science PhDs and 80% of electrical engineering PhDs in U.S. R&D are foreign-born
• Level 1 and Level 2 wages cover about 90% of recent international graduates

It’s done baby. Remember TSMC is just a foundry, All design is USA baby!!!!

None, because they don't have a compromised CEO who gave up 10% of the company to keep his job.

Intel, as we know it is officially OVER.

With the Administration owning 10% of Intel (Phase 1), it's basically guaranteed that domestic companies who want to avoid tariffs and the Administration's ire will start sending business to IFS (Phase 2). Granted, it's unlikely going to be 18A, or even 14A anytime soon (but eventually)... but I think they'll test the waters with 14nm and 10nm... and packaging (heck, even Nvidia and Tesla signed on for packaging before this deal).

Phase 3 will be to arm twist TSMC into taking management of IFS, so it can be efficient and competitive. I am predicting that the Administration will entice TW by selling them more advanced we-pons, and make some more overt statements around TW's sovereignty.

Then finally, Phase 4, in five three to five years, IFS could be spun off as a working, profitable, stand alone company. Any sooner than that, they are just fooling themselves.

This will be the first step to ensure continuous innovation and cash flow. Now we have hitched ourselves to US taxpayers to maintain competitive advantage.

Those garbage companies like AMD and TSMC must be shivering already in their taiwanese sweatshops.

Next step is to improve yields. Intel will surpass garbage AMD soon wait and watch

Buy American, Hire American.

After pushing 26,000 employees out, the tax agency is scrambling to find enough personnel to carry out its duties.

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/08/irs-canceling-its-layoff-plans-will-ask-some-it-fired-or-pushed-out-return/407620/

https://theconversation.com/state-department-layoffs-could-hurt-us-companies-ability-to-compete-globally-an-economist-explains-why-262988

At least 600 employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are receiving permanent termination notices in the wake of a recent court decision that protected some CDC employees from layoffs but not others.

The notices went out this week and many people have not yet received them, according to the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents more than 2,000 dues-paying members at CDC.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/least-600-cdc-employees-are-getting-final-termination-notices-union-sa-rcna226252

Could big oil have to give up equity share to the government to pay back green energy and carbon capture grants given to them? This could lead to a national oil company which the administration would live to have.

Seriously.

Regardless of department you are in, find a way into the fed space and your life will be so much easier and you 100% are significantly less likely to be laid off.

Sales? It's a smaller team/group and the bulk of your money is made during FBS - which su-ks because you work longer and sporatic hours for a month.5 - but you have almost a guarenteed career long client as they are only Government agencies.

Tech support? Find a way into FIRST. Federal Incident Response Team. It's INTERNAL FED tech support to JUST fed employees and you can't be offshored like corp tech support can and there is no outside tech support bs. You ONLY deal with federal DELL employees.

IT? - It's a smaller environment, less complex, far fewer switches/routers/firewalls/etc... A much simpler IT environment through and through.

Managers - I mean, having been one in the past; I'd far prefer to manage 10 people versus 20? Considering every team in FED is quite small, anyways.

FED brings in a LOT of money to Dell considering the department size. We are valuable and not a single person can be offshored and 99% can't even be outsourced. Dell doesn't touch FED with layoffs 99% of the time as we are so small and, we are the last resort/option.

YES, people can and do get laid off in FED but it's far far FAR less likely than in literally any department on the corporate side.

Plus, you get a cool red badge!

I don’t know how many of you sell any client systems with ProSupport but nearly all of US support has been moved to Panama and Costa Rica. The only reason there’s any US agents left is because of Federal contracts but I’m sure they’ll find a way around that. Feels like deceptive marketing but they changed it to say ‘In region’ now.

I’ve also had some sales agents contact me about exchanges. You can’t get a system exchange if you receive a dead unit within the first 30 days. They have to go to care (good luck) or get a service call before even being considered. The goal is no exchanges at all even when warranted. They did a ‘cost of dsat’ analysis and determined it wasn’t worth a good survey to spend the money on it.

I feel powerless at trying to ‘save the sale’ from tech support sometimes because of our stupid processes.

Just random tech support venting. AMA

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-is-missing-the-biggest-offshoring-companies-150924712.html

"Such filings indicate that at least 450 IBM workers have lost their jobs since the beginning of 2015 because the company moved the work overseas. But the real number is most likely higher, since one-third of the filings either don’t say how many workers were affected or contain redactions that obscure the information. One filing, on behalf of laid-off workers in Connecticut, said 'IBM refuses to provide this information.'"

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"IBM moved American jobs to India, China, Bulgaria, Egypt, Brazil and Costa Rica, according to the filings. On some of the forms, workers indicated they were required to train their foreign replacements in order to receive severance pay. 'We were managers who laid off our staff (and then were let go too),' one petition reads. 'My staff was, at its peak, a couple hundred people. We were only part of the large scale movement of production from IBM’s GTS [Global Technology Services] organization in the US to India.'"

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"A handful of companies stood out. The 24 TAA petitions relating to IBM were far more than any other company we looked into,. . ."

Seems as if some things never change.

Good that Shell Oil has fired very excellent performers since the contractors or full timers are no longer needed for Shell and why the Shell company needs to retain such employees.

It is very good that the Shell has fired all under performed employees at #Bangalore. Now it will remove all contractors of #Accenture, #IBM and #Wipro whoever are working at One Shell Plaza and Two Shell Plaza and other offices located in Houston,Texas.

Also it has plans to remove all contractors even in California Shell Office,Malaysia and other Asian locations of Shell.

All full timers and especially contractors need to look for other jobs but looks like they rarely fit for other jobs since the work environment at shell is like a #Government of India where people get huge salaries for not doing any work.