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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by itsdrewmiller on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:27PM (#33648596)
What did Steve Jobs do? He wasn't even at the company for half the layoffs that happened, and wasn't CEO until they were over. He killed some boondoggles 6 months after being formally named CEO (and over a year after NEXT was acquired).
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by labrador on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:35PM (#33648669)
Looks like I'm not the only one who made the assosiation:

    David Heinemeier Hansson
    November 5, 2022
    Apple fired 4,100 when Steve Jobs returned in 1997 
    https://world.hey.com/dhh/apple-fired-4-100-when-steve-jobs-returned-in-1997-57ed6bc6
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by itsdrewmiller on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:40PM (#33648709)
I'd encourage you to read the source he cites in that blog post - it's clearly very, very different from what Musk is doing.
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by labrador on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:28PM (#33649104)
Sorry, it was the best I could come up with
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by theCrowing on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:43PM (#33648734)
A broken clock is also right two times a day.
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by yborg on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:32PM (#33649134)
That was ~30% of Apple's staff at the time.
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by gscott on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:48AM (#33652030)
And I think they were on the edge of Bankruptcy
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by heartbreak on Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:17PM (#33649608)
DHH would know a thing or two about pissing off half your employees overnight.
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