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John Minnihan Jan 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.

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Andy Cameron

@jbminn The thing that’s also bothered me about all of the lay-offs is that there doesn’t seem to be any leadership accountability.
When things are going great, the C-suite takes the credit, but when things go badly it’s the workers who take the fall.
Yes, I know this is a challenging economy right now, but every single big tech CEO made the same mistake of thinking pandemic growth would be permanent, but none of them are being held accountable for that mistake and the human cost is huge.