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Gotta get creative with your layoffs when you already did massive layoffs but still need to please wall street.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (7 children)

My first thought is that this entire article reads like a camouflaged press release from Meta.

The source for the article seems to be an anonymous, internal leak, but those “leaks” are often from the company itself as a way to send a message while maintaining plausible deniability.

My second thought is that they are grouping together wildly different types of infractions without saying how many people were guilty of each one. It’s possible that one person was committing outright fraud while everyone else was just accused of a minor technicality.

Finally, the accusation of “pooling” funds seems like a big tell. That’s what you should want the employees to do to save the company money. Without specific details about why that was wrong this sounds more like a gotcha than a legitimate reason to fire someone.

All of these together make this article seem like a way of scaring employees into resigning so they can cut the workforce without being subject to WARN act requirements.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Some decent bootlicking in here...

"Leadership" gets strippers and nobody cares lol

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm reminded of a video from Gary Vee where he had a small moment of reality: Some guy was complaining his employee quit 3 weeks after starting because they were all lazy. Also note it was always his only employee.

Gary asks him how much they paid the employee (min wage) and if he demanded they work over 40 hours (yes and no ot), then pointed out the guy was walking home with all the money and expecting someone to work hard with no return.

The entire audience was confused. Now they are in these comments.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

These grifters get super cagey when you point basic math... Capitalism for me, but no for thee🤡

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