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>Twitter was already planning layoffs. Their CEO told them no layoffs were planned in the immediate future just a few months ago.
by devmor 4y ago
>Twitter was already planning layoffs.
Their CEO told them no layoffs were planned in the immediate future just a few months ago.
- gnicholas 4y agoIf articles on HN are any guide, CEOs say this up until the moment that layoffs occur. It goes something like "while we had hoped and worked to avoid impacting personnel, changes in the macroeconomic conditions have made it impossible for us to..."
- lmm 4y agoHe was probably lying.
- eropple 4y agoFrom your other posts I surmise you know this, but the WARN act means that a company of Twitter's size can't lie about that, at least without then paying out a full notice period to all affected workers.
- TexanFeller 4y agoEvery CEO I've seen oversee layoffs has maintained that no layoffs were planned until the very millisecond they're announced. I think of CEOs like I think of the WH press secretary - paid to propagandize.