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The tweet says they fired ~40 people for performance, not because of bad fit, which the video seems to corroborate.

• CharlesW 3y ago
  Performance in the role they were hired for, which is person/role fit. The response spotlights that the person might be "really, really great" somewhere else, possibly in some other role. This is one of the reasons @eastdakota's response is really well done — he doesn't say a single bad thing about the person who (unprofessionally) shared video of the event, but instead owns that the company doesn't/can't hire perfectly, and acknowledges the various ways in which they failed this person during the layoff process.
  • ParetoOptimal 3y ago
    > he doesn't say a single bad thing about the person who (unprofessionally) shared video of the event Accountability isn't unprofessional, though companies would like to convince employees that is the case.
  • camgunz 3y ago
    > acknowledges the various ways in which they failed this person during the layoff process Acknowledgements are worthless at best, and insulting at worst. "Yes I agree we stabbed this person and woof, we should not have." The second and necessary part of any apology is making things right, which in this case is some kind of compensation and a change in policy. None of that happened. It's the definition of unjust. It's just exhausting to watch CEO after CEO come out and be like, "look I/we goofed and we have to fire a lot of people, I take full responsibility but in truth am doing nothing and expect no consequences, except for our stock price to increase" and for people to universally say, "man they handled that perfectly" when they essentially just copy/paste Mark Zuckerberg's words. What a joke.