Re:Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs
by t_mann on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @08:57AM
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In finance it's pretty common practice (and in that sense Coinbase is similar to a broker). I remember stories about how half (?) the people working at UBS London came to work one morning to find that their badges didn't unlock the entrance gates anymore. And lots of stories like that in the years following the 2008 crash.
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Wouldn't their Blackberries be remotely deactivated first?
Phones stop working for lots of reasons other than "I've been fired". I'd still show up to work. It'd be pretty bad if your phone indeed had just stopped working, and rather going in to get it fixed, you just assumed you were fired and then stopped going into work, thus actually getting fired for not showing up.
Most people there would probably come into work between 8 and 9am. Even if the phones were deactivated before then, most might not even have noticed (those that did notice might have had a premonition, but what are you going to do about it on your commute?).
That is a major plot point in Margin Call, which is a dramatization of the initial housing bubble crash of 08: https://youtu.be/zn2Xf9hAFcE?t=461
Re:Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs
by jabroni_salad on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @10:26AM
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BES doing something reliably? That was a good laugh, thanks.