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A Cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover Is Causing a Supply Chain Disaster (www.wired.com)
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[–] spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Asshole cars for mostly assholes

from the article:

Some firms have reportedly already laid off staff, with the Unite union claiming that workers in the JLR supply chain “are being laid off with reduced or zero pay.” Some have been told to “sign up” for government benefits, the union claims.

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JLR, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors, is one of the UK’s biggest employers, with around 32,800 people directly employed in the country. Stats on the company’s website also claim it supports another 104,000 jobs through its UK supply chain and another 62,900 jobs “through wage-induced spending.”

regardless of your opinion about the cars or the people who drive them...thousands of people getting furloughed or laid off suddenly is bad.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

Sure I agree. I suggest getting jobs at companies that make smaller cars. But yes totally agree that having no job sucks. I'm probably going to be loosing mine soon. We're currently in heavy design of a hail Mary type of product launch. The wheels are coming off left and right. Once we the design team is done, then less of us are needed. So we'll be discarded too. By Christmas. Hopefully the hail Mary works out. I'm trying to become independent somehow. Its just really tough to do that.