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> we hired a bunch of people in order to milk the situation for everything we could, knowing we'd have to fire you today Did people not also take jobs at googl
by hammock 4y ago
> we hired a bunch of people in order to milk the situation for everything we could, knowing we'd have to fire you today
Did people not also take jobs at google in order to milk the situation for everything they could?
Could those people not have foreseen an economic downturn, which happens at least every 8-10 years the last one being 14 years ago?
What specific lie did google tell, or are you speculating?
- b345 4y agoNope, pretty sure Google is not the one being milked here.
- nickelcitymario 4y agoThe implied lie that this is just an unfortunate and unforeseeable circumstance. The unwillingness to be transparent about it. That's the lie, and it's not speculation if I'm observing their own words. I think your framing of this as a predictable cycle is deceptive. This isn't about regular crashes. This is about a temporary pandemic-driven situation. Yes, employees hired in the rush could have seen this coming. But it's unfair to assume 100% of them did. I don't think it's unfair to think it would be shockingly foolish for the entire tech leadership class to not have seen it coming. All I'm saying is: Own it. I'm not saying it was evil. I would probably have made similar decisions. But I would have been more transparent about it. I would have hired people on contracts with the explicit understanding that this was surge hiring. That way no one would be surprised when the contracts weren't renewed. That would have been honest.
- AYBABTME 4y agoThey did - the employees. The annoying part is the execs pretending like this is all unexpected. They could have skipped that line, just stay quiet. Don't pretend like you didn't know it was coming.