Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer

Post by Aeolun » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 12:40 PM UTC

sofixa wrote: post #106

Aeolun wrote: post #99

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That’s quite a lot. I imagine you’d be happy if you could get a little more than half as much in Europe.

It's an exaggeration. Starting salary in LA for a bus driver is $53k/year; NYC is $61k. Atlanta is $42k; Seattle $69k; Dallas $48k; Miami $43k. It's really only a very limited amount of cities that have $60k salaries for bus drivers.. and they're all cities where $60k doesn't get you that far. For a comparison, starting salary for a bus driver in Paris is 30k euros (with no prerequisites, they will send you to learn…

Post by paulgb » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 12:41 PM UTC

danpalmer wrote: post #108

coalface wrote: post #22

I'm surprised more didn't take the offer. Maybe they have a better package of shares in the company that's worth the wait? Otherwise it seems like a great offer to take even if you've enjoyed working there and support Matt and his public meltdowns.

I thought the same, but the thing to remember is that 80% of the employees who took the offer were in the WordPress part of the company. Automattic is at this point a bunch of loosely related companies, it’s understandable that the Pocket Casts team for example are probably quite disconnected from WordPress and the drama. In other words, for those actually affected by the drama, a much higher percentage left.

Post by MOARDONGZPLZ » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 12:43 PM UTC

xnorswap wrote: post #163

mtlynch wrote: post #35

> So we decided to design the most generous buy-out package possible, we called it an Alignment Offer: if you resigned before 20:00 UTC on Thursday, October 3, 2024, you would receive $30,000 or six months of salary, whichever is higher. But you’d lose access to Automattic that evening, and you wouldn’t be eligible to boomerang (what we call re-hires). HR added some extra details to sweeten the deal; we wanted to mak…

Being made to make that kind of decision in such a short time clearly isn't fair. In many jurisdictions it would be an unfair contract. To then say "Look at how many people didn't take up the offer so they clearly support us" despite such a short notice on the offer makes a mockery of the company and it's leadership.

Post by IG_Semmelweiss » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 12:45 PM UTC

badlibrarian wrote: post #159

photomatt wrote: post #112

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As of today we are 1,733. But that may go up soon, we are hiring aggressively to fill roles of some people who left and meet increased customer demand! https://automattic.com/work-with-us/

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Post by ReptileMan » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 12:49 PM UTC

bdndndndbve wrote: post #146

chx wrote: post #29

So now we know the lawyers on both sides. To recap, in the lawsuit post, someone said about the law firm WP Engine got: > Quinn Emanuel is one of the premier (and most expensive) litigation firms in the US. Partners in their litigation department run $2000/hour or more. Associates cost almost $1000/hour. And I noted the team is lead by Rachel Kassabian who was lead counsel for Google which in Perfect 10 v Amazon (ori…

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