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0 pointstempestn5y ago0 comments

You think their PR head would only spend 5 minutes crafting a post announcing the layoff of a quarter of their staff?

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asdff5y ago· 2 in thread

For a well trained and well paid one? Yeah, they probably have a template.

I wouldn't expect there to be a corporate template for a mass layoff press release. Having such a thing would be a warning sign for the future of the company to me.

Also, people who don't know anything about a task tend to underestimate its complexity. I can't remeber the name of the effect but it's a variant of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

selfmodruntime5y ago

Mass layoffs are and have been standard procedures in any company, regardless of size. Writing such templates in good times instead of wasting resources elsewhere is just good risk management.

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