Thoughts on getting laid off after nine years at Twilio

Re:Thoughts on getting laid off after nine years at Twilio by fzeroracer on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @05:00PM (#34796774)

I mean, we're seeing the consequences of this stuff. Productivity is going down and you have a bunch of your typical CEO-favored sites going on about quiet quitting, ghosted interviews, unthankful employees etc. To counter this issue rather than improving the workplace they're deciding to try and enforce productivity through spying on workers and forcing people back into the office.

It's all a symptom of what you mentioned where CEOs, upper level management etc are all so thoroughly disconnected from the workforce that they make boneheaded and bad business decisions that destroy the business 3-5 years out. Though none of them get punished for it because of golden parachutes ensuring even the most failing CEO gets rewarded for destroying the company they were running.

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Re:Thoughts on getting laid off after nine years at Twilio by JohnFen on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @11:21AM (#34805976)

> unthankful employees

This always gets me. It's as if they think they're doing people a favor by hiring them -- or at least expect people to think they're doing them a favor.

It just ain't so. The reason companies hire people is because they'll make more money by doing so. It's not a favor, it's just cold business. Employees should not feel "thankful", they should feel as if they entered into a business relationship.

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