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1071 points namukang | 4 comments | 11 Apr 25 20:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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snvzz ◴[11 Apr 25 20:36 UTC] No.43658245[source]▶
That's just how it is for a lay off, in megacorp and elsewhere.

Not sure how this is HN-worthy.

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sangeeth96 ◴[11 Apr 25 21:39 UTC] No.43658914[source]▶
Adam was a very prominent Chrome DevRel and top voices of the web platform. I personally owe to his content (blog, snippets, podcast, talks, youtube, social media etc.) to stay up-to-date on things.

It’s a bit of a shock to me that he of all people is getting laid off and that too in such an ugly way.

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ycombinatrix ◴[12 Apr 25 02:44 UTC] No.43660877[source]▶
What was specifically ugly about it? It seems ugly like any other layoff except maybe he liked his job more than most.
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fragmede ◴[12 Apr 25 06:19 UTC] No.43661835[source]▶
the obligations listed on the page that he got rug pulled off of seem kinda ugly to me.
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snvzz ◴[12 Apr 25 10:50 UTC] No.43663264[source]▶
Ugly, but not uncommon.

A company will often try and avoid letting a candidate know that they are being considered for firing, or that the decision has already been made, until the trigger is pulled.

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decimalenough ◴[14 Apr 25 06:00 UTC] No.43678469[source]▶
That's normal. What's uniquely ugly/American is conveying those firing decisions by locking the fired employees out of their email at 6 PM on Friday. In most countries this is illegal.
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1. phtrivier ◴[14 Apr 25 07:42 UTC] No.43678986[source]▶
I suppose organizing departure in an adult manner (Offer some time to finish task, pass on knowledge, etc... AND let the people leave earlier if they prefer - you know, the whole "think about the team" thing) would also violate someone's meritocratic free speech ?
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2. fragmede ◴[15 Apr 25 12:18 UTC] No.43691658[source]▶
Do you really need to make it a freedom of speech issue? can't it be recognized as a human as a pile of shit to rug pull someone like that and not let them at least cancel their own talk?
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3. phtrivier ◴[15 Apr 25 18:07 UTC] No.43696422[source]▶
Sorry, sarcasm intended (I was riffing on the idea that anything ugly and unacceptable gets defended as "saving free speech", those days.)
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4. fragmede ◴[16 Apr 25 07:33 UTC] No.43702551{3}[source]▶
Poe's law strikes again!