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So cold, announcing layoffs to employees this way. A blog post saying "yeah, if you work for us, you're about to get an email telling you if you still do or not"
If you helped them make things better and are looking for meaningful work, we are hiring across a range of products: mostly for CancerDB.com, but also PLDB.com, LongBeach.pub, and more (https://pd.pub/)
16 weeks of base pay - perhaps this is becoming industry standard for big company layoffs? (influenced by CA WARN act?) Interesting they are paying the cash equivalent of 6 months of healthcare, rather than just extending healthcare for 6 months.
I guess no annoying Woven by Plaid posts on LinkedIn for a while. Success to these affected people, one rule I always remembered is don’t do layoffs in December, so extra brutal.
So cold, announcing layoffs to employees this way. A blog post saying "yeah, if you work for us, you're about to get an email telling you if you still do or not"
If you have a lot of experience with seeing how layoffs go down in companies, you'll see that no one is ever satisfied with the way they are done. The reception of it is highly subjective. I personally would want to get an email telling me directly and with no bullshit involved. I don't want to listen to a CEO come up with some fake apology, and I also want to absorb the news in the confort of my own time, in my own…
"Plaids"
This joins the list of Googlers, Xooglers, Nooglers, Amazonians, Tweeps, Krakenites, what else?
So cold, announcing layoffs to employees this way. A blog post saying "yeah, if you work for us, you're about to get an email telling you if you still do or not"
Unfortunately, in a highly regulated environment like finance or healthcare this is the norm for opsec reasons. Can't have disgruntled laid-off employees taking revenge actions against the company or customers.
> approximately 260 talented Plaids "Plaids" This joins the list of Googlers, Xooglers, Nooglers, Amazonians, Tweeps, Krakenites, what else?
This is the hardest thing I have ever done. The market changed - I thought we would make more money, now I think we will make less money. Therefore we have discovered that we don't need all of you.
If you aren't needed, here is some money. I hope this is enough money that the internet isn't too mad at me.
Remaining Floofernistas, please be kind to the ex-Floofernistas, and help them.
Again, I am sad.
Goodbye