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SoftTalkertoday at 3:16 PM4 repliesview on HN

There's no real way to sugar-coat losing your job. I think an email is as good as anything. Ensures everyone gets the same message at the same time.


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troyvittoday at 3:26 PM

I think the headline is not the best headline, but what it meant by "cold" is that there was no advance warning. So like cold-calling somebody, but to fire them, and an email instead.

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Waterluviantoday at 3:20 PM

Whatever you do, do not ever book a 1:1 meeting on a Friday afternoon for Monday morning titled, "The Future."

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Gualdrapotoday at 3:47 PM

And traceability.

In a 1:1 meeting you could fire me and say a gazillion things and I'd forget 99.9% of them.

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Quarrelsometoday at 3:24 PM

I think its very impolite to not do it face-to-face.

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