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What was specifically ugly about it? It seems ugly like any other layoff except maybe he liked his job more than most.
by 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 agothe obligations listed on the page that he got rug pulled off of seem kinda ugly to me.
- snvzz 2y agoUgly, 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 agoThat'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 agoI 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 agoDo 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?
- roman_soldier 2y agoReplace/Cancel the talk he had scheduled or forgo the $500k+ in savings and keep him. Not a hard decision.
- fragmede 2y agoIs 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.