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> Sadly, the changes also include a significant reduction in our workforce — approximately 250 people of exceptional professional and personal caliber who have made outstanding contributions to who we are today. To each of them, I extend my heartfelt thanks and deepest regrets that we have come to this point. This is a humbling recognition of the realities we face, and what is needed to overcome them.

What a load of bull! How many people did she save from firing by taking a pay cut? I agree that it would have been an insignificant number of the 250 people fired, but it would have made a difference in the life of the employees not fired and it would have given meaning to her words.

Words are extremely cheap (including the ones I'm writing right now). Statements only become principles when they imply a personal cost, otherwise they are just ideas.

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Spivak5y ago· 5 in thread

You do get that the total compensation for 250 FTE's is probably in the neighborhood of $25 million/yr. She gets paid about $1m/yr which includes performance incentives. So if she just gave up her whole salary she would only have to fire 96% of the people let go today.

C suite members raking in high salaries is the tiniest most insignificant issue when it comes to a large orgs finances. In most large orgs if C sites were paid $0 the average employee wouldn't even notice the difference.

sciurus5y ago

> 250 FTE's is probably in the neighborhood of $25 million/yr

Mozilla is very engineering-heavy. While I don't know other people's salaries, I do know that the fully loaded cost of a developer almost anywhere is much higher than $100k/yr.

shockOP5y ago

You do get that the CEO has the most power in directing where the company goes and the CEO is directly reponsible, at least in part, for the current situation Mozilla is in. As a result I think the CEO should have been the first to suffer the consequences of the reality they were (partly) responsible for creating, before the first employee would have been impacted.

The way I see it, the employees that had almost no control over Mozilla's direction over the last years are suffering the consequences.

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shockOP5y ago

> You do get that the total compensation for 250 FTE's is probably in the neighborhood of $25 million/yr.

In 2018 she received almost $2.5 million comp from Mozilla. Assuming that her comp has not decreased since then, that would be 25 FTEs (according to your numbers) that she could have chosen not to fire at no other cost than her compensation. Do with that what you will.

shockOP5y ago

Yes, I specifically addressed that point in my post:

> I agree that it would have been an insignificant number of the 250 people fired, but it would have made a difference in the life of the employees not fired and it would have given meaning to her words.

Are you saying it would not have been worth it?

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hu35y ago

4% might be just a number to you but to those people it would mean the world.

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Spivak5y ago· 5 in thread

sciurus5y ago

> 250 FTE's is probably in the neighborhood of $25 million/yr

Mozilla is very engineering-heavy. While I don't know other people's salaries, I do know that the fully loaded cost of a developer almost anywhere is much higher than $100k/yr.

shockOP5y ago

The way I see it, the employees that had almost no control over Mozilla's direction over the last years are suffering the consequences.

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shockOP5y ago

> You do get that the total compensation for 250 FTE's is probably in the neighborhood of $25 million/yr.

shockOP5y ago

Yes, I specifically addressed that point in my post:

Are you saying it would not have been worth it?

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hu35y ago

4% might be just a number to you but to those people it would mean the world.

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