Dare Obasanjo

We went from it being a scandal for a CEO to fire people over Zoom to the biggest tech companies logging you out of Slack or email with a “you’ve been laid off” error message as the norm within a year.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/12/05/business/better-ceo-fires-employees/index.html

Better.com CEO fires 900 employees over Zoom

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg announced the mortgage company is laying off about 9% of its workforce on a Zoom webinar Wednesday abruptly informing the more than 900 employees on the call they were being terminated just before the holidays.

CNN
Jan 21, 2023 at 9:46pmWeb
Show threadArmandoJan 21, 2023

@carnage4life

Back in the cubicle days I witnessed people called to a meeting, then being walked out 😭 📦

It sucks no matter how it's done

You go trough the stages of grief - eventually re-read the severance comp info and move on ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Show threadMiquelJan 22, 2023
@carnage4life not even a hand written Post It on your desk nowadays
Show threadDan k5sJan 23, 2023
@carnage4life wait, who is doing layoffs via error messages?