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Indeed. Compare this to Klarna's CEO https://www.klarna.com/uk/blog/company-announcement-from-ceo-sebastian/ https://www.klarna.com/uk/blog/company-announcement
by ilrwbwrkhv 4y ago
Indeed. Compare this to Klarna's CEO https://www.klarna.com/uk/blog/company-announcement-from-ceo-sebastian/ https://www.klarna.com/uk/blog/company-announcement-from-ceo... who never mentioned the actual firing. 10% is "getting impacted". I find it ridiculous when people use language like this. Especially a CEO. Have some courage and say the thing out loud. Shopify seems to have a much better CEO.
- ivraatiems 4y agoThis is exactly the message I was thinking of when I wrote my original post, but I had forgotten which company it was. Thank you!
- simonhamp 4y agoIn the UK you are not allowed to talk about people getting fired; you must talk about redundancy and roles (not people) being made 'potentially' redundant (i.e. 'impacted') It's a very controlled legal wording and process for a large redundancy approach and must be adhered to very carefully so as not to fall foul of tribunals and unfair dismissals. I don't know Klarna or Shopify from the inside, but I suspect this difference is largely down to the differences in legal obligations between Canada and the UK
- vasco 4y agoWhat happens if in the UK you say "getting fired"?
- barkingcat 4y agoYou get fired for saying you get fired?
- draaglom 4y agosomeone takes what you said to an employment tribunal and makes the case they were fired without the proper dismissal process ('unfair dismissal')
- Ntrails 4y agoIANAHR but "fired" is a special case of terminating an employees contract. It requires significant evidence of either malfeasance or poor performance despite significant attempts to help the employee improve. So, if you have that, you can obviously say it. So, in my understanding at least, fired is "at fault" and redundant is "no fault".