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Because the UK is in Europe. Makes as much sense as a Japanese company referring repeteadly to employees in New York and/or the United States.
The UK is not a city in Europe. Europe in this sense seems to refer to the union, not the continent.
ChatGPT for layoff announcements > generate a notice that approximately 4000 people are going to be laid off Dear valued employees, It is with great regret that we must inform you that our company will be downsizing and approximately 4000 employees will be laid off. This decision was not made lightly, but it has become necessary in order to keep our company financially viable. We understand that this news may be diff…
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While this looks good, in practice all this means is access to paralegals/assistants who send canned emails with standard options. There is no "support".
I get that layoffs seriously are terrible but a lot of these tech companies are providing some pretty seriously nice exit packages. I fail to understand the amount of acid in the comment thread? Layoffs suck, corporate speak is always cringey. What would people want as alternatives outside perfectly executed business plans that don't have layoffs? Handheld individual exit goodbye packages? Im seriously asking for leg…
I've been thru a lot of layoffs and these posts would honestly be the last thing I would worry about. The worst ones I've been thru are the secret layoffs where a handful of people just disappear one day and everyone left just whispers about it because if we were supposed to know details the overlords would have said something and no one wants to be next by speaking out.
But everyone talks about it, and says "why isn't management honest with us?"
ChatGPT for layoff announcements > generate a notice that approximately 4000 people are going to be laid off Dear valued employees, It is with great regret that we must inform you that our company will be downsizing and approximately 4000 employees will be laid off. This decision was not made lightly, but it has become necessary in order to keep our company financially viable. We understand that this news may be diff…
Dear Floofernistas, 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 s…
Reminds me of Connor Roy's funeral speech from Succession https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEdOB9OIh70
Haven’t watched the show, but that feels more like the wedding speech in Sherlock (“high functioning sociopath”).
What delusional playbook does every tech leader get the idea to refer to their employees by cringey names like "Plaids" or "Metamates" in serious memos like this? Imagine if your physician did this... "Hey there KaiserPermanientoid! You have cancer!"
What delusional playbook does every tech leader get the idea to refer to their employees by cringey names like "Plaids" or "Metamates" in serious memos like this? Imagine if your physician did this... "Hey there KaiserPermanientoid! You have cancer!"
Even with schools, you're not just an alum, you're a Tiger, an Eagle, an Engineer, etc.
So instead of "working at Google", you become a Googler. A tweep. A Metamate. A, I hope, Lyfter. The job is now part of your identity. You don't do a thing at a place, you are the company.
And it costs nothing.
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And BTW, I take full responsibility for everything, which means nothing.
To me it means something. To write to the world that you made a mistake and you were responsible takes courage. It may lead to change. It may not. But it’s important part of normal apologies. I suspect what you are missing is specific action - what is this person specifically going to do differently?
“I take responsibility, so I’m returning my dividends from the last two years and making my salary 0 until things improve”