Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people
by s1artibartfast on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @10:47AM
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I think people who say it's meaningless are wrong.
Saying you take responsibility is about clearing the workers of fault, it's not about thing you will reform or somehow suffer more than they will.
He could go out there and say it's not my responsibility, it is the workers fault. They underperformed. Most CEOs don't want to do that
If, just for the sake of argument, I said he should resign or compensate the affected people out of his own pocket, I'm fairly sure that people here would think I was being naive. People here are already saying that corporate leaders wouldnt take decisions if they had to be held responsible for the outcomes.
So we end-up with a bunch of people who everyone knows (a) are not responsible for mistakes, and (b) are tacitly understood to be able to make statements that habe no meaning. In other words, lies.
And thus the domain of trust becomes smaller and more fractured.