John MinnihanJan 20, 2023

i was laid-off twice early in my career in very large reorgs / cost-cutting.

the thing that wld have been helpful for me to hear then was 'this is not abt you. you were a number on someone's spreadsheet. they wanted that number to go down by 1000 or 2000 or 10,000'.

so, to anyone who needs to hear that today:

it's not abt you. you did nothing wrong.

Show threadWilliam HeroldJan 20, 2023
@jbminn what's crazy is how aggressively these companies were hiring last year. That's how terrible executives are at predicting revenue.
Show threadAndy Cooper
@willigula @jbminn It's almost as though executive shouldn't be a job at all with how bad all of the existing ones seem to be at it.
Jan 21, 2023 at 4:05amWeb