I've been impacted by Twitter's layoffs. This is how I found out this morning

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33 points·benn_88··7 comments

One would expect minimum decency by such a big company before letting the world know about the layoffs. Such a sad state of affairs at TWTR. No wonder it has always been downhill even though they command the micro-blogging market segment.

How would you do that? How can you prevent anyone from knowing you layoff 300 person until you contacted all 300 persons?

They tried to contact him and failed. Should they wait until they reach him before contacting all other employees? What if he was number 100 on the call list? Do they tell the 99 others to please not say anything for a few days and ask for a media embargo because they couldn't contact Joe?

What if he was on vacation? Should they wait until 100% of employees are not sick/away/in vacation and postpone the announcement a few weeks? (Weeks? I'm being generous here).

In a time like this is when they should show how much they care by being a bit personal about the lay off. That was insensitive.

He had a Work From Home deal. He admitted later that they tried to call him and it was sent to voicemail.

Post your resume on the next HN who's hiring thread. First of the month

Or visit the existing thread[0], many of those ads will still be relevant.

I posted two (Pivotal Labs[1] & Pivotal Cloud Foundry[2]), both of which are relevant, both of which would be good fits for many Twitter folk who are getting RIF'd or who just want to roll off.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10311580

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10311637

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10311634

wow, thats pretty cold.

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