The fact that employers publicly announce that they're laying off their "lowest performers" is shockingly cruel. Not only are you depriving someone of their livelihood, you're publicly branding them as a poor performer to harm their ability to get a new job. That's not something you do simply […] - ThreadSky

JessTheUnstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy • 9 days ago

The fact that employers publicly announce that they're laying off their "lowest performers" is shockingly cruel. Not only are you depriving someone of their livelihood, you're publicly branding them as a poor performer to harm their ability to get a new job.

That's not something you do simply […]

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thomaswebb.net•9 days ago

@JessTheUnstill I can definitely say from experience that when there were rounds of layoffs at companies I've worked for (that always spared me), those who were cut for being low-performers ultimately ended up having great careers afterward anyway. How well someone performs at one company isn't […]

JessTheUnstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy•9 days ago

There's always a stigma against laid off people already. But come on ... Just put out there something like "we're sorry to lose these employees, but shifting business needs and priorities required us to rebalance our job titles and headcount across multiple divisions."

Idk, say various words […]

texhewson.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy•8 days ago

@JessTheUnstill we're in a phase of the libraries getting burnt down by people who can't read books. Right now, they don't value software engineering because LLMs. If that means some features are cranky on my social media app, who really cares. But if it was really important (pacemaker […]

rlmcneary2.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy•9 days ago

@JessTheUnstill I find the book "With the Old Breed" by Eugene Sledge - a memoir about his time as a marine serving in the Pacific during World War II - instructive. One of the points of his book was the incomprehensibility of who lived and who died. It didn't matter if you were a veteran or […]

JessTheUnstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy•9 days ago

Yeah, most of the time those decisions are made at some level 3+ higher than you, or even some consultant they brought in, to whom you're nothing more than a number on a spreadsheet. They get told "hit this number" so they just delete people until they hit that number. Or by a group of people […]

Monocat.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy•9 days ago

@JessTheUnstill wondering how GDPR and the right to all the data a company holds on you would flow here (global companies have global employees)

edavies.functional.cafe.ap.brid.gy•8 days ago

@JessTheUnstill Not to mention that any of the ones you intend to keep but are wanting to leave for whatever reason, as part of normal staff turnover, now can't for a while so you're left with likely resentful “stuck” employees.

dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy•9 days ago

@JessTheUnstill Need a precedent establishing these announcements as libel.

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