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> Emails like this are usually riddled with corporate speak so I'm going to give it to you straight. Well, since you said it that way, I should assume that wha
by acaloiar 11y ago
> Emails like this are usually riddled with corporate speak so I'm going to give it to you straight.
Well, since you said it that way, I should assume that what comes next will not sound like a steamy pile of meandering corporate speak, right?
> The team has been working around the clock to produce streamlined roadmap for Twitter, Vine, and Periscope and they are shaping up to be strong. The roadmap is focused on the experiences which will have the greatest impact.
A roadmap focused on high-impact experiences. Got it. I hope your firings go really well, Bob.
- adevine 11y agoHe said he would give it to you straight, not ELI5. They are focusing on fewer things that they believe are the most valuable, and stopping stuff that isn't core to their purpose. What about this is confusing to you?
- acaloiar 11y agoWhat you said is as near the definition of "giving it straight" as one might expect to follow his preface. What he actually said is as near the definition of corporate speak as possible. There is no confusion on my part. Perhaps Jack is the one confused about what people mean by "corporate speak".
- kamakazizuru 11y agohow would you have phrased it?
- ceejayoz 11y ago"We're laying off up to 336 people, with the biggest impact to Product and Engineering. We'll be providing generous exit packages and helping find new jobs. Sorry. It's our fuckup, not yours."
- 27182818284 11y agoIt would have been better to phrase it the same, but leave out the part about giving it to everyone straight.
- sp332 11y agoIf you understood exactly what he meant, then it was pretty straight. Especially the bit about how many people are being let go and from where, that's remarkably forthcoming.
- acaloiar 11y agoForthcoming as that may be – an understanding listener does not a pretty straight statement make.
- waterlesscloud 11y ago>> What he actually said is as near the definition of corporate speak as possible. No, it's really not. Only on HN. <eyeroll>
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- wickawic 11y agoEventually people in a certain environment just start talking like that. He might not even realize how silly that sounds.
- api 11y agoIt happens in academia too: http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/ http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/
- mrkipling 11y agoThat's actually pretty easy to understand and communicates what the plan is.
- parennoob 11y agoI see what you're saying -- but if the "generous exit packages" and "help finding a new job" are true, then it's still way better than some companies I've worked at, where the firings consisted of two weeks of pay and being escorted out of the building on the same day (of course, said companies weren't in SV). Of course, given his buzzword-filled talk, those "generous exit packages" might just consist of two weeks pay as well.
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- johnward 11y ago"We just fixed the glitch"
- FilterSweep 11y ago"As many of you who have(had) vested stock with us know, our stock and investor faith have collapsed - and in a desperation move to win back our shareholder's trust, we are 'going lean,' so to speak, so we spent a mid-six-figure sum in hiring an outside consulting agency to eliminate human capital - so we didn't have to review it internally - regardless of what you've built with us."
- debacle 11y agoHe has to write this email in a way that doesn't make investors recoil, and he did his best.