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I do not have data to back this claim. But the tone of this blog post makes me feel that, the new CEO is an incompetent person who decided to use the vehicle of

I do not have data to back this claim. But the tone of this blog post makes me feel that, the new CEO is an incompetent person who decided to use the vehicle of the covid virus to announce job cuts that he has planned a long time ago. With the crap ton of marketing buzz in the post, and the casual mention of the layoffs, I don't think the CEO or the new board seem to care all that much about the laidoff employees. Again, this is my personal feeling and may not be the truth.

TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago
> new CEO is an incompetent person who decided to use the vehicle of the covid virus to announce job cuts that he has planned a long time ago. Why would that indicate the CEO is incompetent? Doesn’t it stand to reason that management would and should take advantage of the whatever is happening in the wider scheme of things to advance their narrative, and that doing so is indicative of competence within their frame of reference?
- apk-d 6y ago
  Take a look around this comment section. This move isn't being received well by anyone and nobody is buying his bullshit. That, and mass layoffs are typically an excellent indicator of incompetence.
  - TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago
    I think you’re missing my point. The CEO likely doesn’t give a hoot about HN’s opinion. They probably care about their bonus and how it all advances themselves on their career path.
    - apk-d 6y ago
      > They probably care about their bonus and how it all advances themselves on their career path. That doesn't sound anything like the priorities of a competent CEO. I think you're missing my point, too.
  - xnyan 6y ago
    Layoffs are generally received quite favorably by the investor class.
- Narann 6y ago
  Layoff peoples can be a competent CEO decision, so is using an event to do so. But the way you do those layoff is part of the CEO responsibility. And from this perspective, doing so with marketing bullshit sounds bad as your demographics are mostly engineers. With that, CEO doesn't seems to know what peoples are using its services so it use "generic" (aka marketing) line.
  - TeMPOraL 6y ago
    I think the CEO may be smart enough to know that whatever reactions people have to their bullshitty language, this will blow over and in few months nobody will remember any of that. Unlike lawsuits that could happen if he was actually honest. This is the general explanation for why companies keep being seemingly so bad at PR: they know that this kind of reputation doesn't matter at all.
sokoloff 6y ago
Imagine he planned these layoffs a month after he started. Why would he keep paying these people 6 extra months until a pandemic offered a chance to lay them off under cover? Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to quietly let small groups of these people go every month if they were long-planned? I can’t imagine why a CEO would plan layoffs for a time in the distant future rather than executing them as shortly after the decision as possible.
ashtonkem 6y ago
Aren’t they mostly furloughs?

TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago

> new CEO is an incompetent person who decided to use the vehicle of the covid virus to announce job cuts that he has planned a long time ago. Why would that indicate the CEO is incompetent? Doesn’t it stand to reason that management would and should take advantage of the whatever is happening in the wider scheme of things to advance their narrative, and that doing so is indicative of competence within their frame of reference?

apk-d 6y ago
Take a look around this comment section. This move isn't being received well by anyone and nobody is buying his bullshit. That, and mass layoffs are typically an excellent indicator of incompetence.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago
  I think you’re missing my point. The CEO likely doesn’t give a hoot about HN’s opinion. They probably care about their bonus and how it all advances themselves on their career path.
  - apk-d 6y ago
    > They probably care about their bonus and how it all advances themselves on their career path. That doesn't sound anything like the priorities of a competent CEO. I think you're missing my point, too.
- xnyan 6y ago
  Layoffs are generally received quite favorably by the investor class.
Narann 6y ago
Layoff peoples can be a competent CEO decision, so is using an event to do so. But the way you do those layoff is part of the CEO responsibility. And from this perspective, doing so with marketing bullshit sounds bad as your demographics are mostly engineers. With that, CEO doesn't seems to know what peoples are using its services so it use "generic" (aka marketing) line.
- TeMPOraL 6y ago
  I think the CEO may be smart enough to know that whatever reactions people have to their bullshitty language, this will blow over and in few months nobody will remember any of that. Unlike lawsuits that could happen if he was actually honest. This is the general explanation for why companies keep being seemingly so bad at PR: they know that this kind of reputation doesn't matter at all.

sokoloff 6y ago

Imagine he planned these layoffs a month after he started. Why would he keep paying these people 6 extra months until a pandemic offered a chance to lay them off under cover? Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to quietly let small groups of these people go every month if they were long-planned? I can’t imagine why a CEO would plan layoffs for a time in the distant future rather than executing them as shortly after the decision as possible.

ashtonkem 6y ago

Aren’t they mostly furloughs?