Ask HN: Who is firing?

Yahoo. Right before the holidays, too. Guess they want to avoid paying bonuses to soon-to-be goners.<p><a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101130/yahoo-layoffs-coming-december-13-and-not-this-week-though-its-still-bad-news/" rel="nofollow">http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101130/yahoo-layoffs-coming-dec...</a>

Ask.com laid off search engineers within the last month.<p>Limewire had a big judgment against it recently. They have another product in the works, but they may be doing some downsizing.<p>Sorry for the lack of sources. I'll try to come back with them later.

For California, you can often find out who's having layoffs by looking at the WARN notices: <a href="http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/layoff_services_warn.htm#ListingofWARNNotices" rel="nofollow">http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/layoff_services_warn...</a><p>I imagine other states have their own listings as well.

Comcast has been laying off people (learned about it through a friend who was laid off from Comcast). Not much media on it, but I believe the layoffs are part of this: <a href="http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=200690&#38;site=lr_cable&#38;f_src=lightreading_gnews" rel="nofollow">http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=200690&#38;s...</a>

Lockheed Martin is shutting down a plant in Eagan, MN...by 2013. Possibly transferring 650 employees and dropping 350.<p><a href="http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/lockheed-martin-closing-twin-cities-plant-nov-18-2010" rel="nofollow">http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/lockheed-martin-clos...</a>

My mother worked for a subsidiary of a certain $87 billion a year health insurer. They are closing the office she worked at this month and firing [edit: "laying off"] all the employees.

Ebay had a large lay off at their Shanghai facility a few weeks ago

I work for Canada's largest bank and they're turfing contractors at a pretty rapid rate. Shoveling lots of work offshore.<p>Edit: FTE's seem safe for the moment.

I just got laid off. Boss said he couldn't afford my £25k pa. When I pointed out I'm on £18k he was initially shocked but still unable to afford it :(

Bank of America had a round of layoffs today

Maybe you mean layoffs...<p>Every company should be ready to do a firing if it's required that the employee and the company part ways.

Nokia laid of people close to Cambridge, UK. We hired a few of them at Citrix.