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I don't know if I have ever read a more generic, boilerplate quasi-condolence paragraph than this one: This isn’t a decision the leadership team came to quic
by kogus 3y ago
I don't know if I have ever read a more generic, boilerplate quasi-condolence paragraph than this one:
This isn’t a decision the leadership team came to quickly; it was the result
of extensive considerations and road mapping for our future. We are proud of
the work the teams have been doing, pushing into new areas with weekly content
on Crown Channel, and finding more ways to help publishers reach new audiences
with Game Growth. But after further evaluation of our businesses, it became
clear that we need focus our resources and efforts to deliver great games to
players now and in the future.”
- ulizzle 3y agoVery chat gtp
- petethepig 3y agoThe robotic takeover has already begun; it's just more nuanced and less obvious at this stage.
- DiggyJohnson 3y agoThis comment is becoming a bit of a meme on these layoff threads. This paragraph actually seems less bullshit than many of the corporate messages around layoffs. “This was not a decision we take lightly, and we’re proud of the work these teams have accomplished, but we believe that if we are to succeed we need to take the business in a different direction.” How would you improve it?
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- johnnyanmac 3y agowell for a trillion dollar company, it's kind of hard to suggest "if we are to succeed", but that's not the fault of your PR statement template. It's just plain impossible to pass off "we need to make cuts" when you make that much money.
- DiggyJohnson 3y agoI strongly disagree. They are probably looking at it from the perspective of their organization or division. At what point (revenue/profit/capital) does a company become required to become a jobs program? I apologize for the inflammatory language in my question, but I genuinely can't distinguish it from your perspective.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoThey can hire or fire however they want. That's just business. But if a company posts a 10 billion dollar net income on an earnings call and also wants to pretend that they can no longer afford to pay 200 workers (which, even if they all averaged 200k comes own to 40m dollars, or less than half a percent of said net income), I'm not going to buy it. I don't see a way to spin that, so I'd rather they be straight with me. Product X isn't make enough money to justify costs of labor, we are cutting expenses to it. Goodbye. Amazon tends to have good severance so I'm not actually terrified of the engineers going homeless on the streets, but it's more of the way everything is done. You tend to get zero notice for it, you're cut off immediately from all your chats and emails, and you go through the normal charade with recruiters ready to talk about how sorry they feel just as their own studio laid off the last month. You're basically treated as a criminal that needs to be cut off ASAP despite providing value for months/years and you go back to more false platitudes and the usual annoying interview rituals where you pretend you totally care about the company and need to be humble about salary despite that being a big reason (or maybe only reason) you even looked at them. I'm just tired of all the fakeness.
- DiggyJohnson 3y agoYou didn't respond to my main point about whether its reasonable for an unprofitable organization within a profitable corporation to make this sort of move and use this sort of messaging.
- johnnyanmac 3y agowhich part of "they can fire or hire however they want. That's just business" doesn't respond to your main point? >use this sort of messaging. They are free to message it however they want. Doesn't mean I'll believe it's the real reason they did it. I somehow doubt they will get better free games for consumers (or any) as a result of this layoff.
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- esafak 3y agoThat's not how you do it, this is: "Failure is growth. Failure is learning. But sometimes failure is just failure. I think... I'm sorry. I didn't think it would be this hard. But goodbyes are always hard, especially when I am the one saying goodbye. Today, effective immediately, I, Gavin Belson, founder and CEO of Hooli, am forced to officially say goodbye to the entire Nucleus division. All Nucleus personnel will be given proper notice and terminated. But make no mistake. Though they're the ones leaving, it is I who must remain and bear the heavy burden of their failure." Gavin Belson, CEO.
- klyrs 3y agoFor those of us unfamiliar, this quote is from a TV show, not a real CEO. Don't get me wrong, it's a damned good parody, but let's not mistake fiction for reality. Some real ones: > None of this would be possible without you, our leadership, and our board — thank you for your grit and resilience, your commitment to our customers and your support of our values and people. I am reminded in moments like this, of something Martin Luther King said, that “the ultimate measure of a [leader] is not where [they] stand in the moments of comfort and convenience, but where [they] stand in times of challenge and controversy.” https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/letter-to-employees/ https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/letter-to-employees/ > We had to lay off 90% of our support team because of this AI chatbot. Tough? Yes. Necessary? Absolutely. https://www.boredpanda.com/ceo-fires-support-staff-after-ai-outperforms-them/ https://www.boredpanda.com/ceo-fires-support-staff-after-ai-... And because a picture is worth 1000 words, Braden Wallake's cryface selfie https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/wlg92h/ceos_linkedin_crying_selfie_about_layoffs_met/ https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/wlg92h/ceos_lin...
- local_crmdgeon 3y agoDo you think that's what the team got? This is just PR babble.
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