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Adam was a very prominent Chrome DevRel and top voices of the web platform. I personally owe to his content (blog, snippets, podcast, talks, youtube, social med

Adam was a very prominent Chrome DevRel and top voices of the web platform. I personally owe to his content (blog, snippets, podcast, talks, youtube, social media etc.) to stay up-to-date on things. It’s a bit of a shock to me that he of all people is getting laid off and that too in such an ugly way.

ycombinatrix 2y ago
What was specifically ugly about it? It seems ugly like any other layoff except maybe he liked his job more than most.
- fragmede 2y ago
  the obligations listed on the page that he got rug pulled off of seem kinda ugly to me.
  - snvzz 2y ago
    Ugly, but not uncommon. A company will often try and avoid letting a candidate know that they are being considered for firing, or that the decision has already been made, until the trigger is pulled.
    - decimalenough 2y ago
      That's normal. What's uniquely ugly/American is conveying those firing decisions by locking the fired employees out of their email at 6 PM on Friday. In most countries this is illegal.
      - phtrivier 2y ago
        I suppose organizing departure in an adult manner (Offer some time to finish task, pass on knowledge, etc... AND let the people leave earlier if they prefer - you know, the whole "think about the team" thing) would also violate someone's meritocratic free speech ?
        fragmede 2y ago
        Do you really need to make it a freedom of speech issue? can't it be recognized as a human as a pile of shit to rug pull someone like that and not let them at least cancel their own talk?
        phtrivier 2y ago
        Sorry, sarcasm intended (I was riffing on the idea that anything ugly and unacceptable gets defended as "saving free speech", those days.)
        fragmede 2y ago
        Poe's law strikes again!
  - roman_soldier 2y ago
    Replace/Cancel the talk he had scheduled or forgo the $500k+ in savings and keep him. Not a hard decision.
    - fragmede 2y ago
      Is it? $500k is a lot of money to you or me, but I'm not Google and don't make $3000/second, or about $500k in 30 minutes.
physicsguy 2y ago
DevRel is unfortunately something that’s going the way of the dodo though now that interest rates are up. A position that doesn’t directly contribute to the bottom line of a company, so it’s easy to justify getting rid of.
- grandempire 2y ago
  > blog, snippets, podcast, talks, youtube, social media etc. In ZIRP every cent is positive ROI (Not intended to be a comment about OPs individual performance or skill)
- switch007 2y ago
  And Chrome has an insanely dominant position now. Devs need Chrome, not the other way around

ycombinatrix 2y ago

What was specifically ugly about it? It seems ugly like any other layoff except maybe he liked his job more than most.

fragmede 2y ago
the obligations listed on the page that he got rug pulled off of seem kinda ugly to me.
- snvzz 2y ago
  Ugly, but not uncommon. A company will often try and avoid letting a candidate know that they are being considered for firing, or that the decision has already been made, until the trigger is pulled.
  - decimalenough 2y ago
    That's normal. What's uniquely ugly/American is conveying those firing decisions by locking the fired employees out of their email at 6 PM on Friday. In most countries this is illegal.
    - phtrivier 2y ago
      I suppose organizing departure in an adult manner (Offer some time to finish task, pass on knowledge, etc... AND let the people leave earlier if they prefer - you know, the whole "think about the team" thing) would also violate someone's meritocratic free speech ?
      - fragmede 2y ago
        Do you really need to make it a freedom of speech issue? can't it be recognized as a human as a pile of shit to rug pull someone like that and not let them at least cancel their own talk?
        phtrivier 2y ago
        Sorry, sarcasm intended (I was riffing on the idea that anything ugly and unacceptable gets defended as "saving free speech", those days.)
        fragmede 2y ago
        Poe's law strikes again!
- roman_soldier 2y ago
  Replace/Cancel the talk he had scheduled or forgo the $500k+ in savings and keep him. Not a hard decision.
  - fragmede 2y ago
    Is it? $500k is a lot of money to you or me, but I'm not Google and don't make $3000/second, or about $500k in 30 minutes.

physicsguy 2y ago

DevRel is unfortunately something that’s going the way of the dodo though now that interest rates are up. A position that doesn’t directly contribute to the bottom line of a company, so it’s easy to justify getting rid of.

grandempire 2y ago
> blog, snippets, podcast, talks, youtube, social media etc. In ZIRP every cent is positive ROI (Not intended to be a comment about OPs individual performance or skill)
switch007 2y ago
And Chrome has an insanely dominant position now. Devs need Chrome, not the other way around