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Do you understand why people who aren't making lots of money from it might be angry and upset about this process?
by djur 4y ago
Do you understand why people who aren't making lots of money from it might be angry and upset about this process?
- Xeronate 4y agoThe ability of the process to prune dead weight and the emotions of the people affected are kind of unrelated. It's a business not a charity.
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- exadrid 4y ago[flagged]
- dagmx 4y agoAnd you know the same people would be shedding tears if they were being cut short in any way. It’s a total lack of empathy.
- jddil 4y agoYou're on a board founded by a VC fund to market their investments, I would expect capitalists to be the majority here.
- lupire 4y agoHacker News is a recruiting website for those capitalists' employees. (Look at the only ads that ever appear on HN).
- jjulius 4y agoYou're both correct in this instance.
- uni_rule 4y agoI don't doubt this site is mostly libertarian types but it still strikes me how such people can say some of the shit they do with a straight face. It's especially apparent how nuts some of them are when they are felating Elon Musk specifically.
- tsol 4y agoYou mean hackernews, the site for people who make ridiculous incomes for working on menial digital products like social media? It's strange when people walk into a room and assume everyone else must think like them.
- undersuit 4y agoOh we're supposed to make ridiculous incomes? Lets go tell my public sector employer.
- hnusersarelame 4y ago
- DangitBobby 4y agoWe should not celebrate sociopathy. Or short term thinking. Maybe take... I dunno, a couple of weeks to assess people's value? Instead of potentially firing people you actually should have kept around and spending 35% more on salaries for replacements and God knows how much in lost domain knowledge. Not ethical, not rational.
- Xeronate 4y agoI'm fine with the argument that its not rational and not a good process because the outcome will be bad (firing people that you should have kept). I'm only pushing back against the idea that a business should put protecting peoples feelings over the wellbeing of the company. Sure do it humanely. Give a nice severance. But if people aren't producing the company has no obligation to keep them.