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The 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.
by Xeronate 4y ago
The 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.