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Well, he did say everyone on this call is part of the unlucky group and is fired effective immediately. I think it's better than having the call with everyone

by syspec 5y ago

Well, he did say everyone on this call is part of the unlucky group and is fired effective immediately. I think it's better than having the call with everyone (even though the whole situation still sucks, and the timing is terrible) They really couldn't wait 1 month? It's pretty tough to find a job between now and Jan 1st

mcraiha 5y ago
I assume that guy cares more about Q4 than people.
- ipaddr 5y ago
  Sign of a quick decline.
  - questiondev 5y ago
    this is correct. it’s a sign a company is in trouble
- joshxyz 5y ago
  I sometimes wonder if part of the CEO job in high valued companies is being the pinpoint person to blame whenever there are hard decisions the shareholders has to agreed upon. Like, you're basically paid to suck it up.
coolspot 5y ago
Laid off got 4 weeks of severance and 3 months of paid health insurance coverage.
BoorishBears 5y ago
I would much rather get a company wide call, then a private message, than a patronizing group firing. Usually the issue is a long delay between saying people will be laid off, and laying them off, but in this case the delay could have been minimal. - The use of the word unlucky also made it extra insulting. They're not unlucky, his company made bad moves. Even if the market changed, it was on his company to build in resiliency.
- sokoloff 5y ago
  This move can reasonably be viewed as creating resiliency for the remaining employees (which the article suggests is 91% of the company).
  - BoorishBears 5y ago
    I'm guessing the morale hit from going viral for this is probably going to undo any hoped good... - And for the record, the way I saw this was a TikTok of an employee recording the call before he even said the word fired, so I assume most people already knew what was up. But based on the placement of (imo justified) profanity, it wasn't known that the call was exclusive to the fired. So in a way they probably felt like they had just been fired by receiving a poisoned zoom link, not even the call that it lead to, if that makes sense.

by syspec 5y ago

mcraiha 5y ago

I assume that guy cares more about Q4 than people.

ipaddr 5y ago
Sign of a quick decline.
- questiondev 5y ago
  this is correct. it’s a sign a company is in trouble
joshxyz 5y ago
I sometimes wonder if part of the CEO job in high valued companies is being the pinpoint person to blame whenever there are hard decisions the shareholders has to agreed upon. Like, you're basically paid to suck it up.

coolspot 5y ago

Laid off got 4 weeks of severance and 3 months of paid health insurance coverage.

BoorishBears 5y ago

I would much rather get a company wide call, then a private message, than a patronizing group firing. Usually the issue is a long delay between saying people will be laid off, and laying them off, but in this case the delay could have been minimal. - The use of the word unlucky also made it extra insulting. They're not unlucky, his company made bad moves. Even if the market changed, it was on his company to build in resiliency.

sokoloff 5y ago
This move can reasonably be viewed as creating resiliency for the remaining employees (which the article suggests is 91% of the company).
- BoorishBears 5y ago
  I'm guessing the morale hit from going viral for this is probably going to undo any hoped good... - And for the record, the way I saw this was a TikTok of an employee recording the call before he even said the word fired, so I assume most people already knew what was up. But based on the placement of (imo justified) profanity, it wasn't known that the call was exclusive to the fired. So in a way they probably felt like they had just been fired by receiving a poisoned zoom link, not even the call that it lead to, if that makes sense.