How Bird Laid Off 406 People in Two Minutes via Zoom

Re:How Bird Laid Off 406 People in Two Minutes via Zoom by Qub3d on Friday April 03, 2020 @11:32AM (#22770253)

I see several reasons why this was flagged. From the HN guidelines[0]:

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:How Bird Laid Off 406 People in Two Minutes via Zoom by fingerlocks on Friday April 03, 2020 @06:27PM (#22774535)

It's a stretch to call this political. The mentioning of the Obama grant, which is barely relevant to GP's point, is a far cry from flamebait. What are the other reasons for the flagging?

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Re:How Bird Laid Off 406 People in Two Minutes via Zoom by samstave on Saturday April 04, 2020 @10:38AM (#22778444)

The point of calling out the grant, is that the US just created a two trillion dollar stimuls package - ostensibly to help small businesses and others from laying people off - yet we have the highest unemployment ever, millions laud off in a week and tons of businesses closing.

Whre is that 2 trillion follars going?

Funny you should ask - they pushed for no oversight.

This is the biggest theft of wealth in history.

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