Ellie on Being Laid Off From Her Job, The Community Responds

[@YourAverageBo]

Just trying to eat my orange in peace, man.

[@RouththeRLPanda]

A man should be able to eat his orange in peace

[@samhill88]

@@YourAverageBo orng ain't never peaceful

[@lightspirit2305]

Bro caried the hype train

[@lollypopalopicus]

While I can never claim to know you on a deep personal level, what I have seen of you in clips and streams tells me you are a really solid bro for your friends to have. Cheers Bo!

[@adamenvoyoftheend]

Sewer Oranges

[@ziggystardog]

Darn, I was invested in her fake boyfriend character arc

[@cdbitesky]

Unemployed arc still possible with fake boyfriend

[@okname5335]

he was only in it for the money sadge

[@Kenionatus]

Twitch really did a good job at gamifying spending money.

[@Kosher3864]

And it's funny but they haven't done a good enough job in amazons opinion lol

[@lucas1309]

@@Kosher3864 That's because twitch gives a portion of the donation to the streamer, instead of all the money going directly to amazon /s

[@autohmae]

@@Kosher3864 the problem is the platform isn't growing enough.

[@kanck7909]

Yes

[@root_314]

​@Kosher3864 Their ad revenue is surprisingly poor for a platform of their size iirc.

[@Anchovyroll]

9:18 Bo innocently eating an orange Ellie:”Bo! I will put you in a headlock!”

[@spk1121]

💪🙎 🙂🍊

[@SpiralshapeDev]

gotta love the classic shinsta ellie video naming scheme "ellie on " ___subject___ (optional extra info)

[@DanielAvocardo]

right?! so much better than clickbaity thumbnails and titles

[@kraul_en]

Thank you for the clip Shinsta!

[@SpiralshapeDev]

@@kraul_en hiii kraul

[@DeezBalls-uo3ti]

@@kraul_en HOLY HONKERS, CLIPPER CROSSOVER CANON?!?!?!

[@FFXfever]

As someone who got laid off for a few months and finally got a job again in the current hell scape of IT, I'll definitely try to tune in to the coding stream. Life is tough out here, we'll need to support each other in this industry.

[@Gronmin]

Damn only a few months, the current environment is so bad that I'm pretty sure you're in the very lucky few

[@Pyroguekenesises]

Yeah, congratulations to you! I was let go in May last year and haven't been able to find something since.

[@RebelTvShka]

This is why I decided to not pursue an interest in any IT field. Well, this is what I told myself.

[@TheXenochrist]

I'm saddened to hear that robotics is so unstable

[@spk1121]

Most cutting-edge technologies are. Great risk, great reward, but unfortunately the risks sometimes don't pay off. She should have gotten a severance package, though, and streaming (at her current size) is truly a blessing, so she should be OK for a while.

[@FFXfever]

​@@spk1121with her skill set, she shouldn't have a problem transition to a different role as well. So it's probably a matter of getting through HR filter.

[@ctom42]

Most tech is because the people at the top are just businessmen who don't understand the tech their company makes at all and constantly sabotage things with terrible decision making. I work for a very small company that provides niche parts for OEM companies. The amount of BS I hear from the engineers of our various customer's is insane. Companies are constantly spending years and millions on projects only to cancel them before there is even a chance for them to have turned profitable.

[@Grebogoborp]

@@ctom42what do you mean my cutting edge highly experimental technology is not instantly profitable. Cut the funding 60% of the way into making it viable that should help

[@coldacid]

My brother was a mechatronics / robotics major, and spends his days designing parts for nuclear plants instead.

[@sylrune]

This is what happens when someone is a genuinely sweet and kind person. Friends and community gather around when bad things happen. Also, there is no better hype-man than Bo. The first time i saw Bo was on Ellie's stream months ago. I followed him purely because of how he supported and encouraged Ellie. He may be a gremlin in collabs, but he is the real deal when it comes to supporting his friends.

[@travisperkins9920]

the streamer reflects their community (usually)

[@leovang3425]

Ellie: "I'm not gonna be a full time VTuber" Also Ellie: wants a subathon while being connected to Vedal directly You can't have it all

[@norsehawk]

Subathons, uncapped 5 minutes per sub, she'll be covered for a few months

[@deprimert2000]

they better have given her a good severance

[@MajorSkrewup]

why do you think they let them take the fruit rollups?

[@samhill88]

Sewer partyy!!!! 🎉🎉

[@PlasmaticPi]

She really needs to keep in contact with her former coworkers in case they find other jobs that also have openings she can apply for.

[@ArandomNutter]

"HR lady explained some numbers while I cried", sorry to hear that

[@richie0099]

This is your cue Vedal hire Ellie full time for Vedal AI

[@sadboat1657]

The crazy fuckin robot body soon

[@strim1987]

I can't believe Vedal did this to her job just to hire her at VedalAI. This guy is a real corporate monster

[@jasonsalisbury7965]

Shinsta at least showering in the sewer will probably be better than showering at Bo's house!

[@Deus35]

"Can a man not eat his orange anymore?"

[@AudibleFist]

Here’s the thing if she goes to work somewhere with old coworkers she just needs to tell one person that she made the boyfriend up because she wasn’t comfortable with guys hitting on her at work. It’s pretty simple and not like she is gonna see anyone else soon anyway.

[@TheDrexxus]

I feel like if she says that to a guy, he might take it as a signal that she's revealing it to him because she WOULD be comfortable with HIM hitting on her.

[@schneefreudeYuki]

Bo is such a good friend

[@bluetoadettethegoddess6104]

MOM I'M IN THE CLIP

[@bluetoadettethegoddess6104]

In all seriousness though, I was there live and I felt so bad for Ellie. I can't tell if she is just really strong emotionally because she seemed to recover from the news somewhat quickly (of course not fully but she didn't sound like she was still in that initial impact phase during the stream) or her model is just really good at hiding emotions. Might be both. Hopefully during the hireathon she'll find another job, and soon.

[@EndoftheBeginning17]

@@bluetoadettethegoddess6104 She sounds extremely well put together and very intelligent. She did say she cried but from the sounds of it the staff were already anticipated the layoffs. Her biggest issue now is rent as she lives in New York. I know most people would be a mess from losing their job, but often times the writing is on the wall, such as less work to do. Regardless she sounds like a very positive and goal oriented individual.

[@PerForkOp]

@@EndoftheBeginning17 She survived through worse, whe will make it.

[@WheatDos]

Well, that solved the Fake Boyfriend situation!

[@sitichybrid]

I always wonder when seeing these kind of massive hype trains how much this actually translates to for the streamer.

[@root_314]

Twitch gives 50% of the purchase price to the streamer unless they're large enough to negotiate a special margin. The purchase price also depends on location, usually a good bit lower in many non-westerm countries. You can probably guess around a couple bucks per sub overall.

[@spk1121]

​@@root_314: Ellie said in another clip a few days ago that she ends up with about a dollar per sub after taxes. So, yeah, a hype train like this is nothing to sneeze at, but it doesn't stretch as far as one might hope. That's why, in that same clip, they were also discussing how the top streamers all make the vast majority of their money from sponsorships and merch, not subs or bits.

[@dshindov]

​@@root_314 also around 80% of bits price goes to streamer

[@spk1121]

​@@dshindov: Just a heads-up, for whatever ungodly reason, YT decided to hide your comment (unless one sorts by Newest). Your guess is as good as mine as to why 🙄😡

[@dshindov]

@@spk1121 oh no, ffs, it happened twice already...

[@ninjakai03]

she didnt even start the subathon yet LMAO

[@BulbieBrooke]

One door closes, another opens. Ellie will get through this and go on to greater things, we believe in her!

[@squili]

i know severance pay for engineers is usually pretty big, but damn this is a lot

[@RoosterTease]

The swarm must be summoned!

[@jamesiewalters2360]

The nanotechnology swarm?

[@Mau_Soleum]

Dang, I was not available when the hype train was going! And what I would have donated would have been the sum needed for the next level! Blast!

[@ProjectStickman]

Least parasocial Vtuber enjoyer

[@NK-6.2]

​@@ProjectStickmanImagine wanting to support someone who makes the effort to brighten up your day by being entertaining and interesting while they are going through a hard time... nah, lord and saviour cheesus chrisp forbids we would ever have empathy...

[@ProjectStickman]

@@NK-6.2 You know what the last thing my friends want when going through a hard time? Others giving them money out of pity. That's not empathy, that's just the one thing you were trained to do in a parasocial relationship.

[@NK-6.2]

@@ProjectStickman I find it really saddening that your friends were trained to not be able to (Or find it shameful to) receive external help and support when going through hard times... I personally do not complain when others give me stuff out of the goodness of their hearths and I am pretty sure that if she really wanted to she could just disable those functions from her streams. On that same note, I would really like to know what is your friends' take on stuff like charity cause with that logic no one should be giving out any hard earned goods or money to people in need as to not ashame them either. Again, I am genuinely curious here and would not mind to keep on arguing without any ill intent, as it seems that we both have different views on how to show and accept empathy, compassion, and support for and from others.

[@HallidayASR]

@@ProjectStickman Typical man response.

[@EurekaAce]

WE'RE GOING INTO THE SEWER WITH THIS ONE

[@danbrit9848]

Saying goodbye to the robots...that hits me so much

[@waifudragon7760]

Im rooting for Ellie❤️

[@Bokunohero678]

Imagine a Neuro or Evil collab of leetcode coaching. Vedal could potentially first give the problem to o1-preview, generate the complete explanation and use it in the background as knowledge base with the normal model.

[@darius5066]

This is why I went networking and cybersecurity instead of engineering, it's much more stable. She probably made more money than me as I am only pulling in $96K a year, but I've never had to worry about being laid off or my department being "restructured".

[@blockrock44]

Interesting, I guess the robot is not company property and knowledge, which is good for Ellie. Great that they can continue working on it!

[@spk1121]

@@blockrock44: The company project was and she had to discontinue that, unfortunately. The other thing she is referring to is the Neuro-dog, which has been mostly or entirely funded by her viewers; it is the independent project she plans on adding to her portfolio. That's my understanding, anyway!

[@daniel4647]

"I'm not very social, I only have my 6 Vtuber friends and 4 irl friends". Girl, that's 9 to 10 more friends than most of us have. And that's not even counting your work friends, many of whom I'm sure would love to stay in touch, and all your viewers, all of whom love you. She really has no freaking idea how likable she is does she? Hell, even I'm tempted to watch her upcoming subathon coding stream, and I'm a cold hearted Norwegian that hates Twitch. Watching this even I would have been tempted to donated, and I'm almost homeless owing literally only one shirt and one pair of pants, the most valuable thing I own right now is this nearly ten year old laptop. I wouldn't have, but I can definitely see why people would, even against their own best interest. She's like scary likable. Not quite ky0resu, but still scary likable.

[@DeezBalls-uo3ti]

I hope vedal ai can hire her

[@RoosterTease]

That'd be amazing but a lot of money for a NY salary 😂 I'm just happy the community supports her

[@DeezBalls-uo3ti]

@@RoosterTease he'd need to sell the iconic twelveth mclaren

[@RoosterTease]

@@DeezBalls-uo3ti you're right, not worth it. Scrap the idea😂

[@toshibarobbie]

did we hear subathon RAISE THE TIMER

[@demoncet1998]

Hey my "Broke the bot" comment made it to the thumbnail

[@Yaromyr21]

Bo being the ultimate cheerleader

[@okname5335]

people in the US: first time? people outside the US: OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING EVERYONE DEAD RED ALERT RED ALERT RED ALERT

[@shaskusmas]

Awww, Ellie deserved that hug!

[@malerra]

I'm both a mechanical and electrical engineer. I'm working as a telecom designer. I quit my job in the spring due to burnout and poor pay. I didn't find a new job the entire time until about 2 weeks ago when my old job wanted me back...for the same pay. I went back just because I'm in massive debt now. I loathe this industry.

[@nikx]

4:36 a "hire-thon" has to be an actual new concept

[@SoulCorky]

Subathon ends when the timer reach 0, she find a job or she run out of stolen fruit rollups.

[@kylehumbert5735]

The sewer will out populate NYC

[@mute_me]

She sound sooo happy and positive.

[@cdgonepotatoes4219]

"Robotics has very little job security and is not well paid"... well damn, and I'm on my way to getting a master (at least country equivalent) in what's essentially robotics. I hope the promoters didn't lie to me and I'm actually landing a job when I'll be done with that, the job market is different of course but you can't control self-doubt, only work through it.

[@Kaiser_Paradigm]

Perhaps now Ellie can focus on working on the swarm....VedalAI exclusive engineer?

[@Rakhtor]

I had several tabs open and some text got cut off in the title. This tab read "Ellie on Being Laid"...

[@rs.matr1x]

Robotics.. well as long as she wasn't replaced by a robot. That would be ironic.

[@drgabi18]

since this clip dosen't show it, this is the same stream in which bo showed us his cleaned bathroom which was the same before and after cleaning

[@antthefool7637]

Hope she’s able to find work soon. That sounds stressful.

[@nifty_biscuit]

She's gonna accidentally become the lady version of thor

[@Grebogoborp]

Ellie is going to get curse if the time dogged when she starts her subathon

[@adrianluna346]

It’s kinda amazing how she got laid off then immediately had a plan to go on.

[@EndoftheBeginning17]

Given the economy of the US and Canada, the writing was probably on the wall for the last month or so. She and her collegues probably saw a reduction in projects to complete, or new projects to work on.

[@skrazew]

Bo is one helluva hypeman

[@badart3204]

Yeah, engineering is taking massive hits rn. My buddy somehow managed to dodge layoffs in mechanical engineering in which they laid off everyone except like 2 people in his department. Of which he likely only dodged it bc he was a new hire that wasn’t fully in their system yet

[@kuronekogamer2065]

Raise the non existing timer!

[@greedier-7661]

Neuro but she plays Ceo hiring Ellie.

[@Verrisin]

I love when people cancel projects that are close to being done. YEP makes sense. Money well spent...

[@Cabamacadaf]

I love Ellie, she's so cute and funny

[@RouththeRLPanda]

Ellie in Team vedal-AI? 👀

[@Verrisin]

damn, New York rent ? ... Time to move somewhere remote ish and get a calm remote coding job :D

[@Verrisin]

friends in NY ... sadge. Move them too. Moving cross country will be cheaper than a month of rent. 😅

[@jlcreative15]

oh nice. hope for the best for you

[@ROFLconda]

If the stream end when she gets a job, since I don't see the other one happening while being connected to Vedal, will she do the interviews in stream?

[@jamesiewalters2360]

WHERE THE HELL WAS ACE ATTORNEY'S PURSUIT CORNERED WHENTHE HYPE TRAIN GOT GOING!?!?

[@Vyshada]

Ellie kinda on a good terms with CEO of Vedal AI, no?

[@dariolehm493]

Unlimited time off is the biggest scam ever. how is that even legal? America is wild.

[@jamesiewalters2360]

Man, y'all rushing to the sewers like you're storming the beaches of Normandy.

[@UminokenOshanu]

but... she made a song literally called I don't wanna be an engineer, but she wants to be an engineer :(

[@jamesiewalters2360]

GOTTA MOVE THAT GEAR UP!

[@EeveeRealSenpai]

​@@jamesiewalters2360 NEEDADISPENSERHERE

[@UwU-xk5cx]

"They fired a guy who is rich" Now, that means they are actually desperate

[@Verrisin]

can they fire you with no warning? Isn't there some required period etc?

[@Verrisin]

US is truly a _free_ place ...

[@LucaB-c4u]

Usually they can give you payment in lieu of notice. It probably depends on NY labour laws though.

[@nomms]

At will employment laws. You can be fired at any point for (almost) any reason without compensation or notice. Accrued paid time off (if you get that as a benefit) has to be paid out though.

[@sangan3202]

the US is a great (not) place

[@travisperkins9920]

its insane. I'm in australia, and we had an employee that had a less than 20% attendance rate. it took over 12 months and 6 meetings with HR before they finally fired her. meanwhile in America even good employees can be let go with no notice despite record profits.

[@droftarrodriguez2831]

At least she dont have to lie about fake bf anymore

[@tdrduarte]

Yeah, happened to me not long ago, it sucks. :/

[@sif3398]

At this point she should just apply as vedals personal robot maker

[@rumls4drinkin]

maybe learn to repair cnc machines/ect and learn industrial controlling if you want a stable job in the industry.

[@Drewer]

Chat is just making sure she does quit her streamer job

[@norsehawk]

Tbh she should move away from new York and do remote work, new York pay Alabama rent = easy street

[@failing244]

wait r u serious that's what i missed during the raid-

[@xzephershadowkick7817]

If I became a billionare, instead of wasting my money on space travel, I'd dump all my money in robotics so I can have a big robot husbando and everyone else can have their robot wifus. I wish only the best for you!!!

[@miqo]

W hypeman

[@sasugaainz6824]

I’m glad chat was so supportive of her (I even received one of the gift subs which I’m pretty happy about), I just hope twitch doesn’t axe her like it has done to other vtubers recently

[@galkepic9229]

Ny rent? Youch

[@jannis11]

noice

[@Only1Orinthal]

I smell fulltime vtuber. Job prospects do not look good in the future

[@zzzzeus99]

now cry!!! lol

[@_jamm.]

classic IDM

[@jeeves-2]

17:42 I'm doing my part!