Posted on 2023-01-22
Joining the ranks of tech companies laying off people is Redbubble:
Redbubble cuts staff to manage costs
We have decided to reduce the cost base within the Redbubble marketplace to accelerate the group’s return to cash flow positive. These are hard decisions and I am sorry for the impact this will have on our people.
That's bad news for me, personally, as I'm one of the 14% of the staff laid off; my last day with the company was on Friday.
I have quite mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, that means I'll be looking for a job during a recession, which is always harder. But on the other hand, the last few months have been pretty stressful; it's nice to be writing this on a Sunday evening while not mentally planning out my Monday morning.
Next up I'm going to take a few days to spend with the family, and on general "puddling around" - assembling some storage shelving in the carport, cleaning my motorcycle, and generally catching up on the million and one things I've left not done while focusing on work.
I still haven't decided whether to continue on the management track, or spend some time as an individual contributor again - perhaps in a principal engineer role or similar. I have an emotional leaning towards the latter, I think, but it'll partly depend upon what's available :)
Redbubble in 2007, courtesy the Wayback Machine
I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Redbubble, and I'm optimistic that the people remaining will be able to turn the ship around. Will be keeping an eye on things, and certainly continuing to order a lot of my Christmas and birthday presents from them ;)
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