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> Alternate headline: “Man with stressful job takes vacation of reasonable length after difficult decision” Come on now. This is just a vacation. I’m all for ho
by tablespoon 4y ago
> Alternate headline: “Man with stressful job takes vacation of reasonable length after difficult decision” Come on now. This is just a vacation. I’m all for holding people and corporations accountable, but this just feels designed to make you angry for the hell of it.
The timing and structure this vacation seems specifically designed to avoid some of the consequences of that decision, which looks selfish.
Also, the optics are pretty bad: he just cut off a bunch of people's livelihoods (and likely made the work of the remaining employees more difficult), then immediately went off to enjoy himself in an extremely rich way. A better leader would do something that shows some kind of solidarity, and take the vacation later.
- theGnuMe 4y agoThe thing is, there is always a crisis. So if you operate that way, you never take vacation. Even a successful quarterly report could be met by analyst derision. At that point you behold yourself to the press which is no way to live. Layoffs are business as usual.
- tablespoon 4y ago> The thing is, there is always a crisis. So if you operate that way, you never take vacation Maybe so, but not all crises are identical. An action that might be fine in one kind of crisis can be gauche in another. > Layoffs are business as usual. Layoffs are different, especially large and prominent ones. Definitely not the same as a "quarterly report ... met by analyst derision."