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Damned if you do damned if you don't. We've seen the entire gambit of layoff messages in the past year. No matter how empathic they're written, people complain

• nottathrowaway3 4y ago
  Good people remember though and hold a grudge if you insult them on the way out the door. People you want to hire in the future are watching as well. There's incentive to be classy (ex: Microsoft's https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/18/subject-focusing-on-our-short-and-long-term-opportunity/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/18/subject-focusing...) unless the whole ship is going down. Edit: That being said, after actually reading it, the Meta letter is relatively classy. The HN comments made it seem worse than it was.