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Fired -> Let go -> Laid off -> Impacted I'll be curious to see what comes next.
Completed? (like in Never let me go[0]) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(novel)
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#102PG and crew have been very proud of the way they've been able to scale YC. This seems to be one of the first times where YC has failed to scale?
I’m not sure why YC is an example of something that has scaled well. There’s so many companies now in each batch with 95%+ never amounting to much success. It’s not clear how the scale is helping anyone.
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Does this accomplish anything other than increasing resentment?
Begs the question, what do you think companies gain by using such passive language?
You have to stop and think about what it really means. "Impacted" just means something happened. You have to do the legwork to get to "called into a meeting and fired."
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#105Weak wording the same as every other company > Unfortunately, this means we will no longer need some of the roles > Seventeen of our teammates are impacted
Is "impacted" the euphemism of the 2020's? In the past I've seen "affected", but maybe that's passé now. So hard to keep up with all the progress in our language ...
I mean, aren’t founders always touting that they want to have an impact in the world? ;)
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#107Title should be "YC fires 17 people". Can someone change that?
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#108Just so that it is clear: How does YC define "late stage"?
I ask because the opening line is: "YC is known primarily as a place where very early founders create something from nothing"
Does this mean that, going forward, startups that start with something need not apply? For example, a product and, say, one or many customers? Some revenue?
Or does YC want to focus on the "something from nothing" category?
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#109> Seventeen of our teammates are impacted today. Never allow corporations to speak in passive, weak, blameless terms. Use direct, honest, language, and force them to do the same. "Seventeen of our teammates are impacted today." - > "We laid off 17 employees today" "I was impacted by layoffs" -> "Google laid me off" etc
"Exonerative tense," "mistakes were made," etc. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/past_exonerative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistakes_were_made https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/14/...
Favorite example has to be Luis Suarez in his apology for very clearly biting a World Cup opponent in front of the world some years ago:
"The truth is that my colleague Giorgio Chiellini suffered the physical result of a bite"
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#110Sorry to everyone who lost their jobs. It can feel like the end of the world and your worth. But I’ve seen throughout my career people land somewhere better. Someone once wise told me the most important saying in the world is “this too shall pass,” which applies to all things, good and bad.
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You realize they can get a different job right?