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lazyasciiartyesterday at 11:48 PM3 repliesview on HN

Amateurs. My employer does mass layoffs by terminating access to everything except their email account at 3am, and then sending an email to the victim saying “you were let go at 3am”. Managers get to figure out who’s left on their team by pinging everyone when they learn about it at work.


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gcrtoday at 3:37 AM

Google powerwashes your corp Chromebook when they let you go. A friend was composing an email on the train when their screen went black and the device reset itself to factory settings.

They even send the “you’re being fired” email to their personal email they have on file. Didn’t even schedule a meeting.

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Twirrimtoday at 12:24 AM

If you're talking about Oracle, the large round previous to that they did had individual meetings with employee, manager, and HR. With so many layoffs it took a week+ to do, effectively torturing an entire set of employees who had no idea if they'd have a job by the end of the hour, let alone week.

I'm not sure there's any good way to lay off large amounts of staff (besides not getting yourself into the situation in the first place where you have to)

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brightballtoday at 12:07 AM

Oracle?