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# SF tech layoffs: Tales of post-pink-slip reinvention
- URL: https://werd.io/sf-tech-layoffs-tales-of-post-pink-slip-reinvention/
- Published: 2024-11-19T14:49:34.000Z
- Updated: 2024-11-19T14:49:34.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Culture, Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Jillian D'Onfro at The San Francisco Standard](https://sfstandard.com/2024/11/19/tech-layoffs-reinvention-new-jobs/)\]

On one level, this piece about tech workers leaving the industry behind and doing something more culturally meaningful is quite nice:

> "Andrew Wasilewski, who managed to live “very frugally” on his layoff package while launching the Faight Collective, a music and art community in the Lower Haight, signed the lease for the space mere weeks after his last day of work in tech sales."

But then you find yourself asking: how does an artist community pay a lease on the Lower Haight? How do any of these folks live like this, even for a while, in one of the most expensive cities in the world?

And the answer is obvious, and a little sad, and perhaps not very empowering after all.

[#Culture](https://werd.io/tag/Culture)

\[[Link](https://sfstandard.com/2024/11/19/tech-layoffs-reinvention-new-jobs/)\]