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Petersipoiyesterday at 9:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

There is nothing inhumane about announcing layoffs over Zoom though. Hell I'd prefer to be laid off in the least personal way possible because I'm a grown-ass adult who doesn't need my company to treat my like a child. Tell me and get it over with.


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garciasnyesterday at 9:36 PM

Just like a mass wedding is fucking stupid, so is a mass layoff.

You can have the fucking common decency to do a 1:1 Zoom call with each person. Or at least each fucking team.

Firing 900 people simultaneously is not only stupid and callous, but lazy. There’s absolutely no excuse for that level of inhumanity.

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mingus88yesterday at 10:23 PM

I am an adult but I am also a human

I would expect a layoff with the same level of care as onboarding. If that’s done 900 people at a time over Zoom, cool. We all know we’re part of a herd.

It just sucks and is completely unnecessary to treat people like garbage on their way out if you have a company culture that otherwise treats people well.

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