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> i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. I hope this
by overfeed 8mo ago
> i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome.
I hope this gets drilled into the heads of everyone who sells their labor. The company is profitable, and Jack could have kept 4000 people employed with no difference in outcome, instead, he chose this.
- r-w 8mo agoHow magnanimous of him to let us all know of his magnanimity!
- hirako2000 8mo agoHe could have been even more radical and get rid of himself, his lieutenants could ask gpt about the strategy.
- signatoremo 8mo agoHe did get rid of himself as Twitter’s CEO. He founded Block and Bluesky which employ thousands of people, instead of enjoying the fortune of an ex-CEO. Maybe you should be open minded a little bit?
- hirako2000 8mo agoThat's called quiting for better opportunities. I doubt the thousands who contributed to block's success will all land on their feet. I'm open ended I'm not a CEO forced to make those contradictory decisions.
- hirako2000 8mo agoBackers probably told him to. I can't open LinkedIn any day without trending posts that engineers can hands off to LLMs. That must tilt some ideas to investors who see winners as ways to balance their losses.
- simianwords 8mo agoi don't think this is true. assuming $150,000 average salary thats around $600,000 totally so that increases the yearly profit by about 30%.
- boredatoms 8mo agoWhile destroying morale, and increasing the difficulty of successfully recruiting later
- just-the-wrk 8mo agothey are now estimating 18% instead of 17%
- overfeed 8mo agoI directly quoted jack - take it up with him.
- simianwords 8mo ago> The company is profitable, and Jack could have kept 4000 people employed with no difference in outcome did he suggest no difference in outcome in terms of profits?
- overfeed 8mo agoYou can check for yourself, if you RTFA. Everything I said was based off of jack's post, as I quoted it. If you take issue with the non-specificity ot think he was being less than honest - take it up with jack.
- simianwords 8mo agoi don't think you understood what i'm saying nor what he's saying. you don't do a layoff without accepting a change in the outcome.
- mgfist 8mo agoBlock isn't a jobs program, and employees cost money. Layoffs suck (I got laid off last year) but the reality is that it's a business and regardless of profitability, if you're not worth more than your salary you're a liability. The severance given is quite generous and fair. My biggest issue is that Block should never have grown so big in the first place.
- hiddencost 8mo agoI'd encourage anyone wondering where this perspective comes from to read "Capitalist Realism" by Mark Fisher.
- gom_jabbar 8mo agoMark Fisher is excellent. It will be interesting to see if his claim that the human face is required for capitalism's functioning will hold (does not look like it).
- zmjone2992 8mo agoyea but layoffs aren't usually very performance based. i agree in general though.
- 121789 8mo agowhat exactly is your point? you misinterpreted what he said. he just said that all 4K were being fired, and he would rather do it in one cut than gradually. he did not say the company's outcome would be different with those 4k vs. not