The two randos were just given a list of names to fire for "performance reasons".
They were probably also being evaluated by how many people per day they let go.
Nobody, even those two, believes that she had a bad performance either.
Sad situation to be in.
I feel you.. I have it the same.
I personally resigned on trying to solve this issue. What I am doing instead is, to have this procrastination be productive. When watching youtube, I go see coding videos, or survival. Or instead of music I go listen to Python podcasts to keep in loop on new features. Or I go solve some leetcode problems. Heck I even do chores around the house. Therefore, I know that I should be doing work stuff, but at least I am not wasting time.
If you don't want those (SO) answers, you can always go looking at w3schools (or other pseudo tech sites) or indian/pakistani facebook groups. Good luck there.
SO is, an always been the go to for devs that want answers to specific issue.
Maybe you should ask better questions to get better answers.
But to answer your question.
- if there are better forums or sources to get answers, than SO, we would know by now
And a followup for others. Have you as well seen a decline in the "questions" quality, rather than the answers? I'm worried, our industry is being polluted.