eBay Lays Off 9%

diarrhea wrote: post #6

mindslight wrote: post #2

Severance package was an actual parcel containing live cockroaches and spiders. F-- would not work there again!

Sorry, but… what?

mindslight is referencing this: https://apnews.com/article/ebay-spiders-cockroaches-steiner-....

Re: eBay Lays Off 9%

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 3:48 AM UTC

[dupe]

More: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39111911

Re: eBay Lays Off 9%

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Post by clovoak » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 3:49 AM UTC

ijhuygft776 wrote: post #5

arberx wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right, they should do 85% like Twitter!

but you never see news like "they hired 25% more staff this year"

Yup. One takeaway I took from the book "Factfulness", is a useful exercise for encountering bad news; ask "would the opposite news have reached me?". The answer is almost certainly, no.

Re: eBay Lays Off 9%

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 3:52 AM UTC

clovoak wrote: post #9

ijhuygft776 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

but you never see news like "they hired 25% more staff this year"

Yup. One takeaway I took from the book "Factfulness", is a useful exercise for encountering bad news; ask "would the opposite news have reached me?". The answer is almost certainly, no.

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