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HackerOne lays off 12% of its workforce

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Re: HackerOne lays off 12% of its workforce

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Post by duxup »

nannal wrote: post #6
mydriasis wrote: post #2

> This comes as disappointing news, as we've all built strong connections with our fellow Hackeronies. Sorry my little Hackeronie. I'm afraid I'll be firing you now.

Does anyone else feel weird about these terms used for employees. Hackeronis, Twittarians, Redditites, coinbese?

In small groups and organic kinda thing that the individuals come up with is fine.

IBMer back in the day felt natural and inoffensive. But it was also pretty generic.

Organizations of even moderate size and it gets slapped on like a label on your forehead by management… and it starts to feel weird and insincere…. and as they trend towards cutie affectionate names it gets really creepy IMO.

Personally I prefer a little more professional disconnection.

Re: HackerOne lays off 12% of its workforce

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Post by lsy »

Can you imagine sitting down to write an email announcing a layoff and deciding that opening with "H1" in place of "Hi" and calling people "Hackeronies" would be a great, culture-preserving idea? It's an extremely serious email and for the CEO to have not thought twice about whether this time he should just write "Hi" and refer to people as "our coworkers" says a lot about his state of mind.

Re: HackerOne lays off 12% of its workforce

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Post by unsupp0rted »

nannal wrote: post #6
mydriasis wrote: post #2

> This comes as disappointing news, as we've all built strong connections with our fellow Hackeronies. Sorry my little Hackeronie. I'm afraid I'll be firing you now.

Does anyone else feel weird about these terms used for employees. Hackeronis, Twittarians, Redditites, coinbese?

Yes. It's in line with "our company is a family"... or at minimum "our company is a collective farm".

I'm not a Hackeroni or a Twittarian- I'm an adult individual who exchanges time and skill for money.

I get paid as long as I'm useful. When I stop being useful the company has no qualms about me not being a Hackeroni or a Twittarian anymore.

Re: HackerOne lays off 12% of its workforce

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Post by deciplex »

Groxx wrote: post #22
nannal wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does anyone else feel weird about these terms used for employees. Hackeronis, Twittarians, Redditites, coinbese?

Fun for some, cultish for others. There's not much middle ground between "try to have some fun at work because there's no reason not to" and "don't do something someone might take issue with". A completely sterile work environment isn't really any better, and for some it's definitely oppressive and worse. Is it sometimes an intentional cult-building tactic? Definitely. Is it always ? Heck no, people come up with in-g…

> There's not much middle ground between "try to have some fun at work because there's no reason not to" and "don't do something someone might take issue with".

What? There is miles of middle ground there.

Re: HackerOne lays off 12% of its workforce

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Post by deciplex »

ilc wrote: post #30

A company is not family. A company is not your friend. To quote Bob Seger: "I used her, she used me but neither one cared We were gettin' our share" - Night Moves That is a corporate relationship. Nothing wrong with it. But always keep it in context... if ya ain't getting your share, go get it elsewhere.

Completely agree with this, but at the same time there is something deeply dysfunctional about our mercenary attitude toward our work relationships. For any given individual I think they have no choice to approach it this way, but I do hope we eventually land somewhere a little healthier, as a culture.

Re: HackerOne lays off 12% of its workforce

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Post by savanaly »

nannal wrote: post #6
mydriasis wrote: post #2

> This comes as disappointing news, as we've all built strong connections with our fellow Hackeronies. Sorry my little Hackeronie. I'm afraid I'll be firing you now.

Does anyone else feel weird about these terms used for employees. Hackeronis, Twittarians, Redditites, coinbese?

I don't know, every single layoff announcement on HN has this exact comment at the top of the comments, wonder if anyone else feels this way?

Re: HackerOne lays off 12% of its workforce

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Post by nickserv »

> It is expected that the reorganization will also affect employees in the U.K., the Netherlands, and other countries. After completing the relevant consultation proceedings, we will be able to inform all people involved with more detail. These processes will take longer.

Translation: we can't just dump people from one day too the next in these countries because of worker protection laws.

Re: HackerOne lays off 12% of its workforce

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Post by wiseowise »

mydriasis wrote: post #2

> This comes as disappointing news, as we've all built strong connections with our fellow Hackeronies. Sorry my little Hackeronie. I'm afraid I'll be firing you now.

> Hackeronie

Not even an iota of professionalism.

Should’ve written the firing letter in the following style:

> Hackeronie, I'm vewy sowwy to infowm yu dat due to cuwwent economic challenges, ouw company has been facing diffwicult times. As a wesult, we have to make some hawd decisions, and unfowtunately, we need to wetch yu go.

> We tweasuwe youw contwibutions and effowts to the company, but fow ouw sustenance, we must wemode ouw stwuctuwe. Pwease know dis decision was not made lightly, and it in no way wefwects yu peawsonally.

> We hope yu undewstand the situation and yuw suwvivaw as well. We wish yu the best in finding new oppowtunities, and if ouw conditions impwove in the futuwe, we would be mowe than happy to weconsider yuw. Thanyu fow yuw time with us, Hackeronie. OwO

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