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Should companies keep paying people they don’t need or want ?

• flanked-evergl 4y ago
  No, but they also don't have to bullshit people by saying "I take full responsibility" when the responsiblity is shared between them and the employees that are now sacked. Nobody insists they say this, and it is just bullshit. I think it is fine that google fired them, but just own up. Instead of: > The fact that these changes will impact the lives of Googlers weighs heavily on me, and I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here. Just say: > The fact that these changes will impact the lives of Googlers weighs heavily on me, and I admit that decisions I made have led us here. But even this is probably wrong, because while the CEO is the top executive, he does not make decisions in a vacuum or operate in a vacuum. To be fair though I think that his statement is fine in some specific sense of the word responsibility, i.e. sense 1.b.2 from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/responsible https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/responsible > being the cause or explanation It is just that in every other sense of the word it is not really accurate.