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  • Pakistan Power Outage Funny Memes, #PowerOutage and #ElectricityShutDown Tweets Go Viral As Electricity Crisis in Lahore and Other Cities Get Worse

    Pakistan Power Outage Funny Memes, #PowerOutage and #ElectricityShutDown Tweets Go Viral As Electricity Crisis in Lahore and Other Cities Get Worse

    A major power outage was reported in Pakistan on Monday. As per reports, various parts of Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi were left without power for hours. After the incident came to light, the Ministry of Energy in an official statement said that the system frequency of the National Grid went down at 7:34 this morning, thus causing a widespread breakdown in the power system. Meanwhile, netizens took to social media to share funny memes and jokes as several cities in Pakistan were left without electricity for hours. Soon, #poweroutage and #ElectricityShutDown started to trend on social media. Taking to the microblogging site, one user said, “Relax Boys… Pakistan ko restart kr rhy hain,” while a second user shared a picture of what Twitter users in Pakistan were like. Pakistan Black Out: Major Electricity Breakdown Across Metro Cities of Pak Due to fault in Transmission Lines.

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    Twitter Users in Pakistan Right Now

    People With Solar Panels in Their Homes Be Like

    This One Made Us Laugh

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  • Tech Layoffs Surpass Great Recession Levels of 2008, Set To Get Worse in Early 2023

    Tech Layoffs Surpass Great Recession Levels of 2008, Set To Get Worse in Early 2023

    San Francisco, December 14: The massive layoffs by the tech companies this year alone have surpassed the levels from the Great Recession the world went through 2008-2009 that began with Lehman Brothers collapse.

    In 2008, tech companies laid off about 65,000 employees, and a similar number of workers lost their livelihoods in 2009, according to data by global outplacement and career transitioning firm global outplacement & career transitioning firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Mark Zuckerberg Says Meta Will Layoff More Employees & Freeze Hiring.

    By comparison, 965 tech companies have laid off more than 150,000 employees this year globally, surpassing the Great Recession levels of 2008-2009. Led by companies like Meta, Amazon, Twitter, Microsoft, Salesforce and others, the tech layoffs are set to worsen early next year amid ongoing global macroeconomic conditions. Philips To Layoff 4,000 Jobs As Company Faces Multiple Challenges, Says CEO Roy Jakobs.

    According to a MarketWatch report, layoffs are part of a strategy by tech firms to maintain viability through 2023 and beyond. Data from layoffs.fyi, a crowdsourced database of tech layoffs, showed that 1,495 tech companies have sacked 246,267 employees since the onset of Covid-19, but 2022 has been the worst year for the tech sector and early 2023 can even be grimmer.

    As of mid-November, more than 73,000 workers in the US tech sector have been laid off in mass-level job cuts led by companies like Meta, Twitter, Salesforce, Netflix, Cisco, Roku, and others. Over 17,000 tech employees have been shown the door in India too.

    Big Tech companies like Amazon and PC and printer major HP Inc have joined the global layoff season, and were set to lay off more than 20,000 and up to 6,000 employees in days to come, respectively. Networking giant Cisco has started slashing nearly 4,000 jobs globally.

    Google is reportedly bracing for a massive layoffs early next year and Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has reportedly offered no assurance to worried Google employees that it won’t happen.

    In a companywide meeting with staff, Pichai said “it’s really tough to predict the future, so unfortunately, I can’t honestly sit here and make forward-looking commitments”.

    He told employees that what the company is trying hard to do “is to make important decisions, be disciplined, prioritise where we can, rationalise where we can, so that we are set up to better weather the storm, regardless of what’s ahead”. “I think that’s what we should focus on and try and do our best there,” Pichai added.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Dec 14, 2022 08:54 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • Amul Topical Ad Hilariously Trolls Barcelona As Luis Suarez & Atletico Madrid Win La Liga 2020-21, Says ‘His Barca is Worse Than his Bite’

    Amul Topical Ad Hilariously Trolls Barcelona As Luis Suarez & Atletico Madrid Win La Liga 2020-21, Says ‘His Barca is Worse Than his Bite’

    So by now, all Barcelona fans have also come to terms with the fact that the team has lost the La Liga 2020-21 title. Atletico Madrid walked away with the title piping La Liga giants like Real Madrid and Barcelona. Needless to say, congratulatory messages for the La Liga 2020-21 winner poured in from all sides. Amul also joined the bandwagon and has lauded Barca’s ex-forward Luis Suarez in their latest artwork. Also, the artwork hilariously took a jibe at Barcelona. Luis Suarez Blasts Out at Barcelona & Ronald Koeman After Atletico Madrid Wins La Liga 2020-21 Title. 

    So in the latest creative, we see the Amul girl and Luis Suarez standing next to each other as the Uruguayan celebrated La Liga win. The caricature had an equally interesting caption posted alongside the artwork.  “His Barca is worse than his bite,” read the words alongside the artwork. Luis Suarez has also been taking a jibe at Barcelona even since he won the title this year.  In fact, just after the team won the La Liga 2020-21 title, he thanked Atletico Madrid for rescuing him from Barcelona.

    Here’s a piece of artwork by Amul: 

    Amul’s Latest topical advertisement (Photo Credits: Twitter)

    Luis Suarez was reportedly forced to leave Barcelona last year and even Lionel Messi was quite angry with this decision. In fact, he took to social media and had blasted out at the Catalans for the kind of treatment they gave to Suarez. The former Liverpool striker has been one of the most efficient players for the team as he scored 21 goals during La Liga’s 2020-21 season.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on May 26, 2021 11:22 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).