Re:Dozens of Canonical Employees Resign as Ubuntu Switches t...
by mtgx on Thursday April 13, 2017 @02:46AM
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I'm sure most of the Mir guys were frustrated and wanted to quit, but to me it looks like Canonical needed to become much leaner, too, so it had to let some people go anyway. Perhaps it offered those who wanted to go the opportunity to do so, rather than get fired.
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Re:Dozens of Canonical Employees Resign as Ubuntu Switches t...
by 4ad on Thursday April 13, 2017 @03:02AM
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> Perhaps it offered those who wanted to go the opportunity to do so, rather than get fired.
...what? the opportunity?
In a normal company in most places in the developed world being laid off gives you a severance package, while resigning usually doesn't. Not that Canonical is a normal company by any means. The contracts are very bad, almost everyone is some sort of contractor (not an employee); these people most likely would not get anything anyway, just wanted to point out that resigning when you are about to be laid off is a stupid idea.
But that is not what has happened anyway, as the article claims people were axed, they didn't resign.