“This is a conversation I could imagine happening if I spoke to my employees directly, and that’s as good as an actual conversation.”
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charonn0@startrek.website 7 months ago
The Verge reported that CEO Sundar Pichai defended the layoffs and claimed that workers sometimes reach out to express gratitude for the cuts. “And I just want to clarify that, through these changes, people feel it on the ground and sometimes people write back and say, ‘Thank you for simplifying.’ Sometimes we have a complicated, duplicative structure,” he said, per the Verge.
Chalmers: People send thank you’s for laying them off?
Pichai: Yes.
Chalmers: May I see one?
Pichai: No.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 7 months ago
SolarMech@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Expect this from corporate and political types alike.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Yeah that whole line smells like pure bullshit. I’ve never seen anyone be grateful for having their coworkers laid off.
Grippler@feddit.dk 7 months ago
We had a coworker that got fired a while back, man that was a relief for the entire department. That person was absolutely toxic to work with, or even near.
SolarMech@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
That is different than for layoffs, which generally is less about rooting out toxic people and more about lowering costs. And people know it usually.
That said, anyone causing trouble for management or viewed as not pulling their weight will be the first on the list since management won’t have to justify firing them.
sukhmel@programming.dev 7 months ago
That’s true, but if you had some 5–10% of co-workers so toxic that everyone was relieved to have them fired, things do look grim for your company in terms of morale
merc@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Fired and laid off are different. The people who were laid off weren’t let go because they were a drag on their teams or their departments, but because theoretically the company didn’t have enough work for them.
merc@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I can imagine it, but just a few really awful people. Google, like any company, will have some extreme right-wingers working for it. And, working for Google tends to go with big egos. I can imagine some dude looking at his stock options thinking “yes, all those useless people were holding down the value of my options, now that they’re gone I’m going to be rich”.
Delta_V@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“a lot of people are saying” = the voices in my head are telling me
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 7 months ago
No mother it’s just the simplification
sundray@lemmus.org 7 months ago
I’m guessing it’s not your rank-and-file type “people”.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Managers from unaffected departments who are glad they have less internal competition. And that’s pretty much it.
stoly@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Certainly only certain people have email addresses that can even send to his inbox. Everyone else would be blocked.