GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff
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Re: GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff
#2"doubling down on our engineering work and engineering talent,” Cruise spokesperson Milin Mehta told Reuters.
Do these folks even try to hide their lies?
Doubling down = 2x the engineering staff. This is as they lay off in their lidar team.
Can companies be sued for these types of basically false claims or are we just stuck commenting on what lies they seem come up with. Can you imagine if your day to day life involved interacting with folks this dishonest?
Re: GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff
#3"doubling down on our engineering work and engineering talent,” Cruise spokesperson Milin Mehta told Reuters. Do these folks even try to hide their lies? Doubling down = 2x the engineering staff. This is as they lay off in their lidar team. Can companies be sued for these types of basically false claims or are we just stuck commenting on what lies they seem come up with. Can you imagine if your day to day life involv…
The first amendment protects this type of speech.
Re: GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff
#4"doubling down on our engineering work and engineering talent,” Cruise spokesperson Milin Mehta told Reuters. Do these folks even try to hide their lies? Doubling down = 2x the engineering staff. This is as they lay off in their lidar team. Can companies be sued for these types of basically false claims or are we just stuck commenting on what lies they seem come up with. Can you imagine if your day to day life involv…
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Re: GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff
#5"doubling down on our engineering work and engineering talent,” Cruise spokesperson Milin Mehta told Reuters. Do these folks even try to hide their lies? Doubling down = 2x the engineering staff. This is as they lay off in their lidar team. Can companies be sued for these types of basically false claims or are we just stuck commenting on what lies they seem come up with. Can you imagine if your day to day life involv…
I never hear the phrase "doubling down" used to mean "doubling", except maybe in the original usage in gambling. But colloquially it just means "increasing focus on". In that use there is no inherent contradiction in downsizing + attempting to increasing focus. In fact that seems to be what almost all companies who downsize are attempting to do.
Edit: In fact come to think of it, even in blackjack when you double down, it's as much about committing as it is the doubling of the bet. You have to take one and only one card and that ends your turn, so you're turning down all other options to do this one thing, and in exchange for taking that risky move you get to double your bet.
Re: GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff
#6"doubling down on our engineering work and engineering talent,” Cruise spokesperson Milin Mehta told Reuters. Do these folks even try to hide their lies? Doubling down = 2x the engineering staff. This is as they lay off in their lidar team. Can companies be sued for these types of basically false claims or are we just stuck commenting on what lies they seem come up with. Can you imagine if your day to day life involv…
They mean they're increasing the workload of the remaining engineers, not that they're doing something to benefit or other wise honor them.
Re: GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff
#7"doubling down on our engineering work and engineering talent,” Cruise spokesperson Milin Mehta told Reuters. Do these folks even try to hide their lies? Doubling down = 2x the engineering staff. This is as they lay off in their lidar team. Can companies be sued for these types of basically false claims or are we just stuck commenting on what lies they seem come up with. Can you imagine if your day to day life involv…
The first amendment protects this type of speech.
One should question what interests we're protecting by allowing lying in various contexts vs having just a blanket "say whatever you want" default privilege.
Re: GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff
#8"doubling down on our engineering work and engineering talent,” Cruise spokesperson Milin Mehta told Reuters. Do these folks even try to hide their lies? Doubling down = 2x the engineering staff. This is as they lay off in their lidar team. Can companies be sued for these types of basically false claims or are we just stuck commenting on what lies they seem come up with. Can you imagine if your day to day life involv…
They obviously don't mean it literally in terms of headcount, but more likely in terms of focus and determination.
Re: GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff
#9Funny, as they were just a few weeks ago (even during the lockdown) certain recruiters were saying they were aggressively hiring -- and are still listed as hiring for example here: https://layoffs.fyi/tracker/
Seems like suddenly they got worried about how long they can maintain the burn rate.
Doesn't help that driving and commuting fell off the map.
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