> For those Zoomies
Every fucking time. I just can't anymore.
Zoom lays off 15% of employees
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Re: Zoom lays off 15% of employees
#172I didn't do my job as CEO to keep the company sufficiently profitable, so you must be fired instead of me.
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#173I really dislike the trend of calling employees by some nickname. "Googler" may have been cute back in the day. Zoomies is pure cringe.
Especially in the context of getting fired. I doubt google would call them 'googlers' in the very email they're getting laid off in.
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#174> For those Zoomies Every fucking time. I just can't anymore.
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#175I find it kind of funny, kind of disappointing how in every one of these threads a bunch of the highly voted comments are complaining about some aspect of the layoff, like the goalposts keep moving. The way the layoffs were communicated, the fact that they were staggered, the fact that they weren’t staggered, that the ceo/founder doesn’t take responsibility, that they do but they don’t take action to punish themselve…
How is your wining different than theirs? Genuine question. It's human nature to cope with stress via wining.
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#176I think an executive who REALLY means it should forgot EQUITY GRANT and distribute that as compensation to the departing individuals.
For some orgs it can mean millions more in severance for the individuals whose lives are impacted because of the decisions of those company executives.
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#177On a side note.... "Zoomies", really?
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#178Why do people in HN get so upset that companies hire and fire employees? It sucks as an individual to have to deal with a layoff, but it’s the dynamic of an economy. Optimal growth comes from over and under dampening, not from steady state.
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#179I love the "Don't forget to share this post" at the end of the blog post.
I hate it.