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I think it’s a scale thing, honestly.

Yes, most reasonable adults remain reasonable even after fired

But once you hire a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand people… statistically there are gonna be some wackos you didn’t filter out!

It’s tough. I agree that treating each other like humans is the best policy.

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Of course it increases. That's why you have permissions and guard rails on the employees in the first place. Those should be sufficient.

Also if you want to work with the people you like again but need to actually downsize because of external pressure, good luck trying to get them to come work for you at your next venture after some fucked up bridge burning ceremony.

You also have the situation where the boss usually KNOWS who might do things that he shouldn’t - but you can’t have policies that only apply to some, so they get applied to all (there are still unofficial ways around this, of course, like letting someone know unofficially before they’re officially laid off).

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