Skip to content
Do you have adblock enabled?
 
If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page.

(Gizmodo)   I'm willing to bet that isn't what Dr. King meant   (gizmodo.com) divider line
23
    More: Dumbass, Layoff, Employment, Severance package, PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada, Industry, Economy, steady stream of layoffs, Writing  
•       •       •

1293 clicks; posted to Business » on 27 Jan 2023 at 12:55 PM (9 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



23 Comments     (+0 »)
View Voting Results: Smartest and Funniest
 
edmo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-27 12:42:19 PM  
"I am reminded in moments like this, of something Martin Luther King said, that 'the ultimate measure of a [leader] is not where [they] stand in the moments of comfort and convenience, but where [they] stand in times of challenge and controversy,'" Tejada said.

Yes, it's all about you boss.
 
Another Government Employee
2023-01-27 12:57:16 PM  
MLK quotes are like the Bible in they can be cherry picked, edited, and twisted to any outcome.
 
Fear the Clam
2023-01-27 12:58:49 PM  
In a 1,669-word email to employees, Tejada echoed the script many tech CEOs have recited in recent months, stating that today's "volatile economy requires additional transformation" by the company. As a result, PagerDuty would be "refining" its operating model by cutting about 7% of its staff globally.

"We look forward to continuing to serve the pager community as a leaner, more focused, service provider."
 
Axeofjudgement
2023-01-27 1:09:30 PM  
Well how they hell do YOU class up a layoff/promotion email?

Of course you end with an MLK quote. You do a religious quote and people get all up in arms, come on.
 
Catsaregreen
2023-01-27 1:11:31 PM  
I guess the dumb bass forgot that the March 22, 1968 march was officially called "The March for Justice AND JOBS."
 
Muta
2023-01-27 1:16:20 PM  

Axeofjudgement: Well how they hell do YOU class up a layoff/promotion email?

Of course you end with an MLK quote. You do a religious quote and people get all up in arms, come on.


You can end with an Malcolm X quote.

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."
 
Rapmaster2000
2023-01-27 1:29:14 PM  
I'm reminded of when he said Blessed be the job creators, for they return value to the shareholders."
 
Axeofjudgement
2023-01-27 1:34:34 PM  

Muta: Axeofjudgement: Well how they hell do YOU class up a layoff/promotion email?

Of course you end with an MLK quote. You do a religious quote and people get all up in arms, come on.

You can end with an Malcolm X quote.

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."


Honestly the only right way is Pratchett "build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

Then sit back and watch the chaos unfold.
 
baron von doodle [OhFark]
2023-01-27 1:40:04 PM  

Another Government Employee: MLK quotes are like the Bible in they can be cherry picked, edited, and twisted to any outcome.


Or turned into a statue of a giant penis. The options are unlimited really.
 
groppet
2023-01-27 1:42:50 PM  
Yes so brave lay off a bunch of people instead of having you and the other senior staff take a pay cut to save people. You know if you are going to lay people off just be farking honest about it don't hide behind a bunch of BS corporate buzzwords and quotes you take out of context. Don't piss on your employees legs and tell them its raining lady, they got real world problems to deal with you don't see from your ivory tower.
 
krebshack
2023-01-27 1:59:55 PM  

Muta: Axeofjudgement: Well how they hell do YOU class up a layoff/promotion email?

Of course you end with an MLK quote. You do a religious quote and people get all up in arms, come on.

You can end with an Malcolm X quote.

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."


Why not "if you show me a capitalist, I'll show you a bloodsucker"?
 
severedtoe
2023-01-27 2:10:23 PM  

groppet: Yes so brave lay off a bunch of people instead of having you and the other senior staff take a pay cut to save people. You know if you are going to lay people off just be farking honest about it don't hide behind a bunch of BS corporate buzzwords and quotes you take out of context. Don't piss on your employees legs and tell them its raining lady, they got real world problems to deal with you don't see from your ivory tower.


all of the announced layoffs, and not a single company has talked about changing C-suite compensation.  it says a lot.
 
cyberspacedout
2023-01-27 2:54:43 PM  
"You're all fired. You've been let go. You're free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, you're free at last."
 
Sum Dum Gai
2023-01-27 3:13:25 PM  
"We work in a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it is not meant that we should voyage far."
 
Smelly Pirate Hooker
2023-01-27 3:17:30 PM  
I mean, I already knew this, but it's not only old white guys who are incapable of handling things like layoffs with any sort of sensitivity or common sense.
 
Bith Set Me Up
2023-01-27 3:20:07 PM  

Catsaregreen: I guess the dumb bass forgot that the March 22, 1968 march was officially called "The March for Justice AND JOBS."


U.S. History: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Youtube hsxukOPEdgg


John Oliver: "Take the 'March On Washington'. That wasn't actually its full name. It was called the 'March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom', and the economic justice part of it was front and center. King actually grew more outspoken about that issue in the years that followed. And King himself understood why it was harder to make progress on that front."

Martin Luther King Jr.: (from news footage) "It didn't cost the nation one penny to integrate lunch counters. It didn't cost the nation one penny to guarantee the right to vote. Now we are dealing with issues that cannot be solved without the nation spending billions of dollars and undergoing a radical redistribution of economic power."

John: "Yeah, it turns out that Martin Luther King had more than one dream. And one of them was about wealth redistribution."
 
Smelly Pirate Hooker
2023-01-27 3:48:59 PM  

Catsaregreen: I guess the dumb bass forgot that the March 22, 1968 march was officially called "The March for Justice AND JOBS."


Her and everyone else. MLK's socialist goals went down the memory hole the day he died.

The powers that be don't just fear and hate uppity black people. They fear and hate uppity poors, too.
 
electricjebus [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-01-27 3:51:57 PM  
Yeah, that's pretty tone deaf.  I've had to fire people before, and lay people off, and I've been laid off before.  None of those things are pleasant experiences, but just be direct, that's as pleasant as you can make it for the person losing their job... and definitely don't congratulate people who are getting promoted in the same memo.
 
Ponzholio [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-27 4:00:17 PM  

Axeofjudgement: Well how they hell do YOU class up a layoff/promotion email?


Fark user imageView Full Size
 
OhioUGrad
2023-01-27 6:00:21 PM  
I really love that within the last year + we've really seen solid proof that 99% of the people who are in the C-Suite do not belong there and got there by means OTHER than actual hard work and intelligence.
 
frankb00th
2023-01-27 7:45:08 PM  
Some people really need to relearn fear.
 
InfoFreako
2023-01-28 8:36:22 AM  
Nonetheless, it all starts to go downhill when she decides to use the same email where she announces layoffs to celebrate recent employee promotions, reveal good financial results for the fourth quarter of last year, and state that the company expects to end the year strong.

I'm pretty sure this was a Dilbert strip but I can't find it at the moment.
 
Fark_Guy_Rob
2023-01-28 10:11:07 PM  

severedtoe: groppet: Yes so brave lay off a bunch of people instead of having you and the other senior staff take a pay cut to save people. You know if you are going to lay people off just be farking honest about it don't hide behind a bunch of BS corporate buzzwords and quotes you take out of context. Don't piss on your employees legs and tell them its raining lady, they got real world problems to deal with you don't see from your ivory tower.

all of the announced layoffs, and not a single company has talked about changing C-suite compensation.  it says a lot.


I mean...all the big tech layoffs I've looked into are all the same. Record growth for a few years, huge increases in revenue, and they are still very profitable.

It's just other metrics don't look so great.

Lots of the growth, for many of these companies were acquiring other companies and there really are a lot of duplicated positions and the only way to hire the insane numbers of people they did was to lower their standards. It was much much more impressive to get hired at Google six years ago compared to two years ago.

And of course, Covid and remote work has drastically changed how companies view their office space.

Investors panicked when they realized ridiculous unsustained growth spurred on by a global pandemic wasn't going to continue forever and now companies are following the trend of trying to trim the fat.

The tone deaf CEOs comes from their slightly different perspective on the issue. From their eyes, the company is healthy and doing great .. Because it is. In their eyes they overhired and this is a minor correction. Grow 25% one year, 20% the next, 15% after that and then cut back 6-10%? You are still in great shape.

Money is an abstract concept for CEOs. They don't get the fear layoffs cause for regular people. They walk into these meetings like they are speaking to their investors when the employees really just want to know if they are getting laid off, why people got laid off, how they decided who to lay off, what will happen to those people and what will happen to the people who are left and blah blah blah.
 
Displayed 23 of 23 comments

View Voting Results: Smartest and Funniest

Redisplay/refresh comments
This thread is closed to new comments.

Continue Farking

Want the rest of the Farking story? Try

TotalFark

More threads. More community. More Farking.

learn more | sign up
On Twitter

  1. Links are submitted by members of the Fark community.

  2. When community members submit a link, they also write a custom headline for the story.

  3. Other Farkers comment on the links. This is the number of comments. Click here to read them.

  4. Click here to submit a link.