This is a horrible attempt at trying to stifle whatever criticism the original article made. Repeating "it was a joke" is a childish defense and makes one wond

This is a horrible attempt at trying to stifle whatever criticism the original article made. Repeating "it was a joke" is a childish defense and makes one wonder if management is mature enough to understand that when you, as the boss, send an email with a joke in it like "you might not get paid!", chances are some employees might not get that it's a joke. Some people tend to think that behavior can't be malicious if you don't intend it to be malicious. This is false. And this of course isn't even a defense, it's just repeating meaningless aspirational buzzwords. So why even bother? Claim. [Fab] applies a culture of meticulous control. Fact. Our employees have an intense amount of freedom within the structure we’ve created to make Fab great. It's also very obvious you are just playing word games if Bloomberg says "11 executives left" and your response is "well we only had so many C-level departures..."