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I guess this is what Jack Dorsey meant when he said layoffs would be handled "with the utmost respect." Hopefully those affected will all find work soon.
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At least they saved him the trouble of driving into work. That's pretty humane if you ask me.
Same method used in all IT terminations. Nothing to see here.
anyone try calling that 415 number?
" You're Fired!!! Now get the F@#$ out!!! "
Most of my terminations were discovered when my badge didn't work. Security would tell me that I'm no longer on the personnel roster and then asked me to turn in my badge. I haven't had a decent exit interview in probably a decade or more. Today's management and human resources don't want to deal with the consequences of separating someone from their income.
" You're Fired!!! Now get the F@#$ out!!! "
Most of my terminations were discovered when my badge didn't work. Security would tell me that I'm no longer on the personnel roster and then asked me to turn in my badge. I haven't had a decent exit interview in probably a decade or more. Today's management and human resources don't want to deal with the consequences of separating someone from their income.
Not sure how a layoff can ever be good, but that sucks. I was part of a small team of which management was a few states away; we all sat in cubes where we could all hear each other. They called us all back to back, 3-5 minute phone calls; half got kept, half let go. That was a pretty rough way to handle it, with those let go and those staying having to just stare at each other afterwards.
I've been let go once. My boss told me that I was going to be let go at the end of the year. I was very open about it with my colleagues. The day after, my boss started lying to my colleagues, telling them that I wasn't being let go. He jerked me around until the end of the school year, and then for a month into the summer. He let me go officially a month after he gave my office away (it was over break, but I heard about it anyways). After that, I had to send a nasty letter to the president of the university to get them to remove my name from the course catalog and the website. My boss was trying to use me as a student recruitment tool even though I wasn't being retained.
These situations always suck, but there is a professional way and an unprofessional way to go about it. At least with me, honesty counts. I knew they had budget problems, but my boss wanted to play politics with the rest of the faculty instead of being honest with me.
Nothing is worse than the corporate laying off of people on the Friday before Christmas.
Merry Christmas
This guy is being a baby over his own decision to not pick up his phone when they tried to contact him.
He might have been in a different time zone or started his shift later and still been sleeping....