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I can't find anything about Twilio's layoffs. Was OP fired? Or did the company laying off people?

booi 4y ago
Didn't see anything about this yet but might take a bit of time to get a more official announcement. For what it's worth, I don't see it on here https://layoffs.fyi/ https://layoffs.fyi/
soggyboi420 4y ago
I believe she was pushed out and calling it “layoff” to save face. No indication that any other person was or will be laid off from Twilio
- robovac 4y ago
assttoasstmgr 4y ago
Maybe Twilio leadership realized they didn't need a pronoun czar on the payroll? (See her pinned tweet.) It's unclear to me what her exact role or title is. What does a "developer evangelist" do? I read through her frantic 30 tweet thread and I cannot figure out what she does or why this is on HN. It's a stream-of-consciousness of marginalization acronym alphabet soup. It's sad but people lose their jobs everyday not to mention all the people that lost their jobs - some irreparably - during COVID lockdowns whilst much of tech could WFH. This person is not special. I did detect a lot of disbelief and she seems like a nice person so I hope she gets the help she needs.
- presentation 4y ago
  Basically engineering as marketing—advise other companies’ engineers to use your company’s products/teach people how to use your company’s tech products/talk at conferences and make demos of your company’s product in action.
- andrew_ 4y ago
  "pronoun czar" is the most apt description of activist devrels I've ever come across. the person's twitter feed speaks to that, in addition of the pinned tweet.
  - assttoasstmgr 4y ago
    My favorite tweet by far is the one in which she empathizes with her own firing because a "woman or non-binary POC with a non-traditional education and a blue-collar background" could have her job instead, and then links to the job posting for the position she was just let go from. That is peak SV and it left me a bit speechless honestly. It's also an overly-specific and woefully ignorant statement to make, because it ignores the most marginalized of all the marginalized, the indigenous black trans Ukrainian sunflower farmers of color.
  - ppbp 4y ago
    The writing is on the wall for gender ideologists, as people have started to notice how uninclusive and regressive the whole movement is. Companies are starting to see that pandering to the people obsessed with this stuff is a liability rather an asset.

booi 4y ago

Didn't see anything about this yet but might take a bit of time to get a more official announcement. For what it's worth, I don't see it on here https://layoffs.fyi/ https://layoffs.fyi/

soggyboi420 4y ago

I believe she was pushed out and calling it “layoff” to save face. No indication that any other person was or will be laid off from Twilio

robovac 4y ago

assttoasstmgr 4y ago

Maybe Twilio leadership realized they didn't need a pronoun czar on the payroll? (See her pinned tweet.) It's unclear to me what her exact role or title is. What does a "developer evangelist" do? I read through her frantic 30 tweet thread and I cannot figure out what she does or why this is on HN. It's a stream-of-consciousness of marginalization acronym alphabet soup. It's sad but people lose their jobs everyday not to mention all the people that lost their jobs - some irreparably - during COVID lockdowns whilst much of tech could WFH. This person is not special. I did detect a lot of disbelief and she seems like a nice person so I hope she gets the help she needs.

presentation 4y ago
Basically engineering as marketing—advise other companies’ engineers to use your company’s products/teach people how to use your company’s tech products/talk at conferences and make demos of your company’s product in action.
andrew_ 4y ago
"pronoun czar" is the most apt description of activist devrels I've ever come across. the person's twitter feed speaks to that, in addition of the pinned tweet.
- assttoasstmgr 4y ago
  My favorite tweet by far is the one in which she empathizes with her own firing because a "woman or non-binary POC with a non-traditional education and a blue-collar background" could have her job instead, and then links to the job posting for the position she was just let go from. That is peak SV and it left me a bit speechless honestly. It's also an overly-specific and woefully ignorant statement to make, because it ignores the most marginalized of all the marginalized, the indigenous black trans Ukrainian sunflower farmers of color.
- ppbp 4y ago
  The writing is on the wall for gender ideologists, as people have started to notice how uninclusive and regressive the whole movement is. Companies are starting to see that pandering to the people obsessed with this stuff is a liability rather an asset.