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Re:Hey, N00B, We Didn't Hire You to Complete Tasks by girvo on Saturday June 20, 2026 @03:52AM (#48607241)
> And when corporate needs to lay off 30% they’ll think nothing of it.

Having seen this literally play out this year: it was all of the C’s that were first to be cut shrug

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Re:Hey, N00B, We Didn't Hire You to Complete Tasks by codemog on Saturday June 20, 2026 @11:53AM (#48610165)
> Typical Kent, trying to do the right thing, regardless of the cost. Unfortunately, this time the cost was him losing his job.

Well Kent got fired from Facebook, so maybe he wasn’t such an A player in their eyes. ;)

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Re:Hey, N00B, We Didn't Hire You to Complete Tasks by AlexeyBelov on Sunday June 21, 2026 @03:14AM (#48616432)
In a couple of companies I'm familiar with the cuts weren't based on performance in any discernable way.
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