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1071 points namukang | 1 comments | 11 Apr 25 20:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | 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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roman_soldier ◴[14 Apr 25 18:02 UTC] No.43684268[source]▶
Replace/Cancel the talk he had scheduled or forgo the $500k+ in savings and keep him. Not a hard decision.
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1. fragmede ◴[15 Apr 25 12:16 UTC] No.43691643[source]▶
Is it? $500k is a lot of money to you or me, but I'm not Google and don't make $3000/second, or about $500k in 30 minutes.