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How exactly should they be terminated? 150 1:1 meetings?
by nsksl 1y ago
How exactly should they be terminated? 150 1:1 meetings?
- belter 1y agoI suggest a coding challenge, and the first five to submit it and pass the functional tests can stay?
- jesol 1y agoYes.
- fkyoureadthedoc 1y agoNot only should my boss behave like he's putting down the family dog, I should be able to face my VP in single combat with my weapon of choice.
- tuesdaynight 1y agoI know your comment is going to be deleted because HN is not the place for these kind of comment, but you made me laugh loudly, so thank you.
- amlib 1y agoBest we can do is a 20 frag limit quake 3 deathmatch duel in q3dm17
- BeFlatXIII 1y agoThis but without the irony.
- h4ck_th3_pl4n3t 1y agoI suggest a monster truck derby battle. And we'll call it "Rehabilitation"
- pablobaz 1y agoThat could work. 15 managers doing 10 1:1 meetings each isn't so hard. It can get tricky with people being on vacation etc. But very possible and normal.
- cyberpunk 1y agoHave you ever had to do these? 10 back to back layoffs is a rough day. I had to do 5 in one day once and had to seek out a very expensive hangover. Sucks for everyone. I’ve been laid off by email, it’s fine.
- pluto_modadic 1y agomaybe doing something wrong should be emotionally painful for managers and HR staff.
- cyberpunk 1y agoNot all layoffs are “wrong”; we maybe kept 200 people employed for a year or two longer than we would have by restructuring and laying off 20-30. Net positive in my book. Of course on an individual level it sucks, these are people with dependants and so on, but so are the 200 who were saved.
- Someone1234 1y agoWhat if their direct manager was also terminated? It could result in a manager's manager having such a large cohort as it to take several days while employees wait to see if they're fired or not (word would get out immediately).
- kimos 1y agoOr some other unrelated manager doing the firing.
- quietbritishjim 1y agoThat's not so good for the people remaining, or even those laid off but later in the queue. Once the first person gets laid off, everyone will know it's happening and be wondering whether they're included. You're just dragging out the suspense over the hours or (more likely) days those meetings take place, rather than getting it out of the way in a few minutes. That's probably worse than the dubious joy of a personalised message about your termination. (Though, here in the UK, redundancy procedures can take weeks, so a few days is not much compared to that.)
- bloodyplonker22 1y agoA JIRA ticket with hundreds of legal dependencies.
- MBCook 1y agoWell they certainly shouldn’t tell everyone that a bunch of people are being fired and then to just wait and sit around and see if you get the email of doom.
- jcotton42 1y agoAt least a live mass meeting.
- NitpickLawyer 1y agoI swear there was a post not to long ago about a company that laid off a lot of employees in a live meeting, and it went badly, and people in the comments were saying "a prerecorded video would have been better". The duality of Internet forums, I guess...
- kelseyfrog 1y ago[JIRA] Your boss assigned HR-5678 to you. HR: Atlassian / HR-5678 Acknowledge Receipt of Your Termination Notice
- chrisco255 1y agoI was at Atlassian when a major product was cancelled which was based in the Austin office and MCB flew out to Austin to deliver the news that some would be laid off and others reassigned. I think a town hall over video chat would have been fine.
- fullstackwife 1y agoThis is inconsequence! Hipchat/Stride was a flop, because it was a poor product, poorly executed. Switch to Slack was a huge relief for everyone. Atlassian support engineers used to be the best part of the service. Poor products + Great support = made Atlassian great
- chrisco255 1y agoHipchat was a success, which is why Atlassian purchased it, but Slack leapfrogged it and Stride was too late. Not doubting the role that support plays for Atlassian. Just highlighting how I witnessed MCB handle a similar situation 7 years ago, by flying to Austin from Australia to deliver the sad news. The article makes him sound heartless or cold but that wasn't my experience. That being said, an async video message is a weird play.
- fHr 1y agoYes? Wtf