Tech layoffs keep coming. But something quieter and harder to name runs alongside the pink slips and earnings-call jargon. Workers aren’t just afraid of losing paychecks. Many mourn the erosion of skills that once defined them. This feeling resembles grief more than standard career anxiety. And companies, focused on efficiency metrics, offer no language or process to address it. Jack Maguire laid out the case two days ago in a widely read essay. He examined Reddit threads across r/technology, r/datascience, r/Futurology and r/analytics. The same tone repeats. Posters describe weeks spent on dashboards and models that change no decisions. Others watch the core of their data-scientist role split between machine-learning engineers above and prompt-equipped analysts below. These accounts show mourning for work that still technically exists. Jack Maguire calls this anticipatory grief, distinct from ordinary fear or burnout. But. The grief stays hidden.…