wow that is big lay off, but how they decided what 900 employees to lay off wtf? could they give them some opportunity to grow within the company for some different role? I mean on the other side this is really shit news, but giving that 3 months of benefits and paycheck is kind of Ok i guess in this situation so people can start looking for another job.
Better.com CEO fires 900 employees on Zoom call
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#22I know this sounds horrible but in the days of covid and working from home, what are companies supposed to do if they have to lay off large amounts of people? Make them all risk their health to come to an in-person event, only to be fired? Drive to every employee's house to fire them in person? It obviously sucks but I don't see how, in 2021, this is any different from the kind of thing that would happen all the time…
This is a good point. At least they got a face to face. I had members of a team just get a slip in the past.
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#23If you are a CEO, you have to rehearse the delivery for something like this. Even more now that these videos are certain to become public. To me, this video says that he's a mediocre leader. If I were on the board I would seek to replace him.
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#24I know it’s just an anecdote but as a customer I kind of believe this. I just completed a transaction with them that had to be extended beyond the rate lock window. For about 10 days there was a daily back and forth where they asked me to provide some documentation. I would provide the requested documentation and about 12 hours later I would receive a task of uploading the same required documentation. The document wa…
So essentially the management was so incompetent they failed to notice their employees were underperforming. For how long? And did the responsible - management, and probably also the CEO - get fired?
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#25"Dumb dolphins"? Hey, dolphins are some of the smarter animals out there... That's an ignorant remark.
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#26Wasn’t there another company that recently did the same thing or is this that?
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#27"Last time I did it I cried"... yeah sure. Not that it's easy to fire anybody, but having a Zoom meeting with someone that fake is not helping by any means.
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#282 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29441244
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#29It gets worse. He went on Blind afterwards to really make his voice heard: https://fortune.com/2021/12/03/better-com-ceo-attacks-laid-o...
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#30I know this sounds horrible but in the days of covid and working from home, what are companies supposed to do if they have to lay off large amounts of people? Make them all risk their health to come to an in-person event, only to be fired? Drive to every employee's house to fire them in person? It obviously sucks but I don't see how, in 2021, this is any different from the kind of thing that would happen all the time…
This is a good point. At least they got a face to face. I had members of a team just get a slip in the past.
I think one of the bigger issues was that the CEO made it all about him on the call.