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Re:Tell HN: Confluent laying off 8% of staff by f6v on Thursday January 26, 2023 @12:15PM (#34534777)
It’s called “Japan”. Low performers are kept in corporations to do nothing all day while many of their peers work themselves to death.
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Re:Tell HN: Confluent laying off 8% of staff by folkrav on Thursday January 26, 2023 @12:45PM (#34535406)
Are you implying 100000+ people getting laid off in a handful of months merely is about weeding off "underperformers"?
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Re:Tell HN: Confluent laying off 8% of staff by f6v on Friday January 27, 2023 @08:08AM (#34545542)
No, I’m saying that not laying anyone off ever isn’t a good idea.
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Re:Tell HN: Confluent laying off 8% of staff by folkrav on Friday January 27, 2023 @11:57AM (#34548333)
Termination and layoff are two very different things. You typically don't layoff people for incompetence, you fire them.
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