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Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed' (www.sfgate.com)

submitted 9 months ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 182 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (13 children)

The Verge reported that CEO Sundar Pichai defended the layoffs and claimed that workers sometimes reach out to express gratitude for the cuts. “And I just want to clarify that, through these changes, people feel it on the ground and sometimes people write back and say, ‘Thank you for simplifying.’ Sometimes we have a complicated, duplicative structure,” he said, per the Verge.

Chalmers: People send thank you's for lay offs?

Pichai: Yes.

Chalmers: May I see one?

Pichai: No.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 21 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Yeah that whole line smells like pure bullshit. I've never seen anyone be grateful for having their coworkers laid off.

[–] Grippler@feddit.dk 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

We had a coworker that got fired a while back, man that was a relief for the entire department. That person was absolutely toxic to work with, or even near.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

That's true, but if you had some 5–10% of co-workers so toxic that everyone was relieved to have them fired, things do look grim for your company in terms of morale

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