2026-06-16 Robinhood Layoff Translation (opens in new tab)

This is basically the modus operandi of almost every company these days. Where do you think anyone is gonna go? I sure as shit can't name any companies that don't act like this.

It reflects incredibly poorly on management, bordering on incompetence. If those 10% of employees were needed, then management obviously shouldn’t fire them just to make the stock price go up. If they weren’t actually needed, then management shouldn’t have hired them in the first place. If they’re only sorta needed, then that means management wasn’t able to come up with any ideas to grow the business.

Furthermore, regardless of what expectations are set, it’s not the remaining employees’ job to figure out how to do 111% of the work. That’s literally the job of management.

Indeed. To be honest, the last two words of the translation alone really sum up the whole thing and would save everyone a lot of time and disrespectful, dishonest babbling.

Also I thought it was Merry Men? Well certain subgroup is probably against using term Men and probably also anything considered merry in general. Still, it would have made so much sense.

They’re saving that for the next one