> Who comes up with a feature and gives the programmers a very short deadline with a threat to fire them if they can’t make it? That’s horribly cruel. This has

> Who comes up with a feature and gives the programmers a very short deadline with a threat to fire them if they can’t make it? That’s horribly cruel. This has to be a pretext to turn a layoff into a firing with cause, right? 7 days is absolutely ridiculous for something like this, even though they already have some (most?) of the plumbing laid via Twitter Blue. Also, tomorrow is a non-governmental holiday in the US -- Halloween. I'd imagine quite a few employees with kids are taking time off, so this is also begging for a discrimination lawsuit -- CA law bars discrimination based on an employee's role as a caregiver of a child.