FFS, who teaches these people that referring to their employees with these cringeworthy names, especially in a layoff announcement, is a good idea? They're not "Veeps", they're people who have an identity and existence without reference to their roles at Verily. Just call them people. "ensure that these people..." Is that hard to do? Can you not resist the ra ra corporate bullshit for two damn seconds? Gross.
Veeps join the Googlers, Xooglers, Nooglers, Metamates, Amazonians, Tweeps, Peeps, Rackers, Krakenites and Plaids.
I was wondering why anyone generally would be caring so much what happened to the Vice Presidents of each division, especially when they’re being laid off.
Now that I know what he actually means by Veeps it sounds even more stupid.
"I have made the difficult decision to reduce the size of our team by 20%, which means saying goodbye to many talented Scaliens." [1]
I would expect Verily employees to be called something like “Verilians”.
The words used by HR from this and other companies clearly show that for the company, they are not people with an identity, existence or raison d'être other than providing some kind of service to the company. The invitation is to treat them accordingly.