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Why do you think people believe that? Maybe they are just trolls? Maybe they will just ask because it's easy to ask and someone might respond eventually. It's
by jsprogrammer 11y ago
Why do you think people believe that? Maybe they are just trolls? Maybe they will just ask because it's easy to ask and someone might respond eventually.
It's not uncommon for a corporation to state why they are terminating an employee. GM terminates known engineers as scapegoats for negligence resulting in multiple deaths; many firms pre-announce mass terminations; some shut-down with no notice, save a publicly posted letter on the front door of their building telling the employees who show up for work that day that they no longer have a job ("sorry! but we tried").
Anyway, reddit left AMA out to dry by not arranging some kind of transition plan for the community, and instead created the perception of operating in secret to unknown ends.
- tptacek 11y agoI think people believe it because they want to believe it. Knowing feeds drama. Not knowing starves it. It is very uncommon for companies to reveal reasons for employee termination. It may seem like that's not the case because the only termination stories you pay attention to are the newsworthy ones where the cause was stated, but that's an artifact of selection bias. Tens of thousands of people are let go every year from tech companies and their stories are never told.