Onlive CEO fires staff, then donates $50,000 to health insurance fund
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Re: Onlive CEO fires staff, then donates $50,000 to health insurance fund
#2If you want to stay a leader, this is how you do it. Treat every single person who sacrifices their time for you like family. That's a leader.
Re: Onlive CEO fires staff, then donates $50,000 to health insurance fund
#3Seems like an attempt to get over some of the extremely bad press to me. While it's good for the ex-employees, it was still a really crappy thing to do in the first place.
Re: Onlive CEO fires staff, then donates $50,000 to health insurance fund
#4that's stand up. At WebTV, at acquisition, he gave the staff a considerable amount of his stock in gratitude to sweeten their take - so I honestly don't think he has made the moves he did out of a desire to screw the staff but to save 50% instead of having to fire 100%.
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#5Seems like an attempt to get over some of the extremely bad press to me. While it's good for the ex-employees, it was still a really crappy thing to do in the first place.
Would it have been less crappy to shut the company down completely?
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#6Seems like an attempt to get over some of the extremely bad press to me. While it's good for the ex-employees, it was still a really crappy thing to do in the first place.
Letting the company run dry and not telling anyone until paychecks bounce would have been even worse. It doesn't seem like anyone made a clean getaway from this at all (Perlman himself isn't even taking salary from "OnLive2").
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#7Seems like an attempt to get over some of the extremely bad press to me. While it's good for the ex-employees, it was still a really crappy thing to do in the first place.
He seems to have done something that we very, very rarely see in corporate america, which is show genuine leadership. I'm wondering, keidian, what you believe you would have done that would have been less "really crappy." Genuinely interested.
Re: Onlive CEO fires staff, then donates $50,000 to health insurance fund
#8Seems like an attempt to get over some of the extremely bad press to me. While it's good for the ex-employees, it was still a really crappy thing to do in the first place.
Would it have been less crappy to shut the company down completely?
Being able to dump in 50k after bad press and saying
"I just added $50K to the bucket and will add more as needed"
makes me cynical I guess. shrugs
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#9Seems like an attempt to get over some of the extremely bad press to me. While it's good for the ex-employees, it was still a really crappy thing to do in the first place.
He seems to have done something that we very, very rarely see in corporate america, which is show genuine leadership. I'm wondering, keidian, what you believe you would have done that would have been less "really crappy." Genuinely interested.
None of us knows the terms of the deal such as would be necessary to have any sense of what is possible.
Re: Onlive CEO fires staff, then donates $50,000 to health insurance fund
#10Seems like an attempt to get over some of the extremely bad press to me. While it's good for the ex-employees, it was still a really crappy thing to do in the first place.
He seems to have done something that we very, very rarely see in corporate america, which is show genuine leadership. I'm wondering, keidian, what you believe you would have done that would have been less "really crappy." Genuinely interested.
Honestly? Doing a mass layoff will suck regardless, but doing it by shutting down the company and making a brand new one immediately rubs me the wrong way. While no one likes to be laid off, I think people would have been able to at least hold their head high about the work they had been doing rather than the stigma of being remembered as working at OnLive before AND being out of a job.
Side note: Wonder just how low my karma will sink after this post and my original one lol. Seems like people don't agree with me, which is fine :)