Blue Origin Laying Off 10% Of It’s Total Workforce, Today
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Blue Origin Laying Off 10% Of It’s Total Workforce, Today
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bezos-blue-origin-layoff-10-151815643.html
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Friends of mine that work there were told to stay home today and they will receive an email letting them know if they are still employed or not. They still have not received word.
Edit: This is the Florida site.
Edit2: The two I know in Florida did not lose their job, but said a lot did. They don’t know the how many at their facility yet.
Absolutely brutal, just recovering from the high of getting New Glenn of the launch pad into this gut wrenching situation. No doubt that the delays in New Glenn have pushed them into this situation, but decimating your workforce like that has to be awful for morale.
On the plus side, the private space market with companies like Rocketlab is growing very fast so there shouldn’t be too much problem finding new jobs for these people.
Well at least some of r/BlueOrigin are taking it with a sens of humor.
Sitting at home, waiting for a fateful email- this must be brutal.
When your biggest competitor controls the entire purse of the US Government, you may as well just shut it all down.
Idk why, but I immediately thought of that worker in that video praising BlueOrigin and Bezos for the best job he’s ever had.
I mean being roughly two to three ~~years~~ decades behind Space-X can’t be good for the bottom line.
Trump and Musk are killing the federal grants that Musk used to get where SpaceX is and now after Bezos bent the knee, he’s no longer going to get the funding to catch up – well deserved, but bad for the competition in space travel
They’re doing this with EVs too
If the layoffs happen predominantly in the engineering department, then it’s pretty clear what happened. They hired these people to build something, they didn’t know just how long it would take to build so the contracts were indefinite, and now they built that thing so they’re trimming the fat. Disgusting way to do business.
Musk is going to be winning all contracts for the next 4 years. Auf Wiedersehen Bozo
Met a dude at Disney last month decked out in Blue Origin gear who was talking to everyone he could about how awesome the company is. Definitely a true believer in the company’s mission.
I sure hope he isn’t one of the ones impacted.
In completely unrelated news:
*”Asked about possible conflicts of interest as a result of Musk gutting agencies that either are investigating his companies for regulatory noncompliance or that have contracts with his companies, such as the defense department, Musk suggested there were none.*
*“First of all, I’m not the one filing the contract. It’s the people at SpaceX or something,” said Musk, the founder, chief executive, chief engineer and chair of SpaceX.”*
One of my best friends from high school works for BO, I hope he’s still got his job. He works at the Texas site.
Guess I won’t be applying for the job post I saw on LinkedIn after all.
Wow they got decimated. I do feel kinda sorry for them
With Boeing laying off many SLS employees this week also, it’s a rough week for people working in space 😢
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|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
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|[BO](/r/Space/comments/1iomodj/stub/mcld624 “Last usage”)|Blue Origin (*Bezos Rocketry*)|
|[JPL](/r/Space/comments/1iomodj/stub/mckqf4k “Last usage”)|Jet Propulsion Lab, California|
|[NG](/r/Space/comments/1iomodj/stub/mcld8k7 “Last usage”)|New Glenn, two/three-stage orbital vehicle by Blue Origin|
| |Natural Gas (as opposed to pure methane)|
| |Northrop Grumman, aerospace manufacturer|
|[NS](/r/Space/comments/1iomodj/stub/mcl5ji8 “Last usage”)|New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle, by Blue Origin|
| |Nova Scotia, Canada|
| |Neutron Star|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1iomodj/stub/mcl4dme “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|[ULA](/r/Space/comments/1iomodj/stub/mclgx15 “Last usage”)|United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)|
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Jeff’s girlfriend costs have risen substantially. Everyone should be more understanding.
My roommate was one of the unlucky ones. Unfortunate since he just started working there 4 months ago
A buddy of mine who only stated 6 weeks ago got his “Your good” email. He had to report to Kent today too. Says it’s a ghost town.
It sucks, but they should have known it was only a matter of time.
Blue’s news is sort of schitzoid… at the same time, they announce that they are rushing to get another New Glenn launch in, they do a 10% RIF. Unless the 10% being canned are all of Bob’s buds who were milking the company for the past 4 years without producing anything except glowing (and wrong) progress reports.
How is wearing your company logo and talking about how much you love your job “treating a company like a religion” JC reddit is losing all critical thinking skills.
Did they make them draw straws and then beat the short one to death with clubs? That is the proper way to decimate a workforce into productivity.
In another article I read it said this was being done to cut r&d and focus on launches, but these people should be kept on to focus on the next thing like SpaceX always does. They never settle and always innovate, which is why theyre decades ahead.
I’ll have to check on my friend. Both her and her fiance work for BO and they’re supposed to be getting hitched in a couple of months. Eek!
Have Blue Origin had any federal contracts or grants frozen?
Is it because contracts are going to go to Elon now so he can grift ?
A 10% layoff at a tech/growth company is routine. Jack Welch of GE famously advocated doing that every year to keep the organization healthy. You fire/RIF low performing employees and cancel dead-end projects while hiring new talent.
It’s not a sign of failure, as the title suggests. It’s a sign of an aggressive pursuit of success.