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Not especially surprising, but there’s an awfully large elephant in the room that likely directly contributed to this necessity that goes completely unmentioned.
Trying to publicly argue the moral high ground was a stupid, unforced error.
It didn't need to be moralized at all. Just make the changes you want to make, piss off a vocal minority, then get back to winning and making boatloads of money by executing exceptionally.
The problem, I suspect, is that Matt values how certain people perceive him more than he values winning. It's unfortunate, because he's clearly a very good executer and strategist. He's getting in his own way.
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We always let our ex-employees keep their laptops because a. why not? and b. I don't need laptops for positions that no longer exist.
“Welcome to your new job at HighSpeed TopFlight. Here’s an old, used laptop.”
Mentioning "our revenue continues to grow" seems quite out of place in an announcement like this.
on the positive side, it's a small thing monetarily, but retention of company laptops is a nice goodwill gesture
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Plus severance will be paid but didn't say how much. I was thinking this is a boilerplate firing email though!
I wonder if it's better or worse than the voluntary termination deal they offered to employees last year (first 6 months, then 9 months pay).
Huh. >> There are no layoffs plans at Automattic, in fact we're hiring fairly aggressively and have done a number of acquisitions since this whole thing started, and have several more in the pipeline. https://old.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1hxnh73/automatt...
It seems to me the obvious, from both a business & human perspective, is to stop hiring at first signs of trouble, before layoffs. To do so otherwise is cruel.
I doubt Matt had zero idea about this possibility two months ago.