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Re:CEO Feels Terrible About Laying Off 900 Employees over Vi... by LinuxBender on Saturday December 04, 2021 @12:52PM (#29442657)
For what its worth, I've seen something even more tacky than this. A company rented a ballroom of a hotel and had 2 meetings. 9am: Lay off several hundred people. 10am: Celebration for those still employed. Some people designated for 9am showed up late. It was very awkward.
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Re:CEO Feels Terrible About Laying Off 900 Employees over Vi... by wcfields on Saturday December 04, 2021 @03:21PM (#29443962)
I’ve been there on the IT side. Company had two meetings simultaneously on either side of the building and I was in the server room disabling GSuite accounts and remotely locking laptops.

Absolutely brutal 40% headcount slash after we lost a major client. And, someone went to the “stay” meeting that was escorted to the correct meeting by a manager too.

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Re:CEO Feels Terrible About Laying Off 900 Employees over Vi... by tibbydudeza on Saturday December 04, 2021 @03:36PM (#29444082)
Reminds me of The Joker breaking a cuestick in half and throwing it to the two surviving henchman and saying "Good News - there is a new position opening up in my organization".
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