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Twilio's Developer Evangelist Michelle Glauser is being let go in layoff today

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One month of severance for almost four years of employment? That's pathetic, even outside of tech. Definitely affecting my perception of Twilio as a company.

One week for each year of service is pretty standard unless you’re getting packaged out for exceptional circumstances (physical office closing/moving, etc).

This is anecdata but two high profile tech layoffs you've read about on here in the last few years gave out more like 2 months per year served, on the low end.

This is an outlier, and while commendable (I’d love to hear who it was, positive signal about who to work for wrt to respect and treatment of workers), it isn’t industry standard by any means. Great if you can get it, but don’t expect it.

Off-topic but ESL person here, why "anecdata" and not "anecdotal"?

It’s anecdotal + data

For the benefit of ESL, it is a portmanteau of anecdotal and data.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau

I can't find anything about Twilio's layoffs. Was OP fired? Or did the company laying off people?

Didn't see anything about this yet but might take a bit of time to get a more official announcement. For what it's worth, I don't see it on here https://layoffs.fyi/

I believe she was pushed out and calling it “layoff” to save face. No indication that any other person was or will be laid off from Twilio

Maybe Twilio leadership realized they didn't need a pronoun czar on the payroll? (See her pinned tweet.) It's unclear to me what her exact role or title is. What does a "developer evangelist" do?

I read through her frantic 30 tweet thread and I cannot figure out what she does or why this is on HN. It's a stream-of-consciousness of marginalization acronym alphabet soup. It's sad but people lose their jobs everyday not to mention all the people that lost their jobs - some irreparably - during COVID lockdowns whilst much of tech could WFH. This person is not special.

I did detect a lot of disbelief and she seems like a nice person so I hope she gets the help she needs.

Basically engineering as marketing—advise other companies’ engineers to use your company’s products/teach people how to use your company’s tech products/talk at conferences and make demos of your company’s product in action.

"pronoun czar" is the most apt description of activist devrels I've ever come across. the person's twitter feed speaks to that, in addition of the pinned tweet.

My favorite tweet by far is the one in which she empathizes with her own firing because a "woman or non-binary POC with a non-traditional education and a blue-collar background" could have her job instead, and then links to the job posting for the position she was just let go from. That is peak SV and it left me a bit speechless honestly. It's also an overly-specific and woefully ignorant statement to make, because it ignores the most marginalized of all the marginalized, the indigenous black trans Ukrainian sunflower farmers of color.

The writing is on the wall for gender ideologists, as people have started to notice how uninclusive and regressive the whole movement is. Companies are starting to see that pandering to the people obsessed with this stuff is a liability rather an asset.

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