Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers

Post by lovich » Thu, Feb 05, 2026, 3:14 AM UTC

winrid wrote: post #9

0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #3

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AFAIK, you can tell someone today, “Get out” without prior notice, but then you have to continue to pay them for the duration of the WARN period. Regarding this story, this situation only exists because companies have gotten so secretive about layoffs. I have been through multiple rounds in the past few years and management loves to dance around the issue. No hard numbers on people cut, the teams, or even the dates w…

This is what every company I've been at does. They fire and give severance during the WARN period. Nobody will ever give you a list of who was laid off at any company I've worked at. You would just have to.. figure it out

Post by literallyroy » Thu, Feb 05, 2026, 5:15 AM UTC

pjsg wrote: post #8

Many companies have internal directories which can be downloaded and (say) committed into git on a daily basis. This could be automated in a cron job. This then gives an immediate view into what is going on. I believe that the Slack API (if your company uses Slack) can be persuaded to give you the list of deactivated accounts. Then you just check this into git (on a daily basis), and you are done. And, of course, in…