@Doctor-Phibes said in Fair:
@89th said in Fair:
In general, you don't want to see people lose their jobs.
That being said, I don't know about you but every single organization I've worked in... you could fire probably 50% of the workforce tomorrow without an impact to the company. The key is knowing which folks aren't adding value and which ones are.
I'm not saying firing people is wrong, obviously it needs to happen sometimes. I'm saying getting a kick out it is sick.
The fact that other people get a kick out of it too doesn't make it ok.
I'm honestly not virtue signaling here, I found firing people really distressing. I've also had two people crying in my office because of performance reviews which I probably could have handled better. Anybody who enjoys that kind of shit can go fuck themselves, I don't care how rich they are.
A friend of mine at another company in the UK fired somebody who then went and hung himself.
Believe me, I get it. I learned just last week there is a massive group of folks I work with who want us all laid off. They really want it. Like real bad. And they have more clout than we do. Things aren't great for people like me right now in the job market. The frustrating thing is that it's just like desktop publishing in the 90s. Our careers aren't at risk because the computers can replace us—they're at risk because morons think they can. (The folks in the 90s eventually got their careers back with new job titles but it was a rough half-decade for them). And that's just my corner of things but once our little toys become self-aware, well, what makes you think you aren't going to have the same problems? Or much bigger ones?
But a lot of my co-workers got laid off last year and no one's speaking up for them because Elon Musk didn't do the laying off.
People care about the Twitter employees because it made the news. It made the news because Elon Musk is newsworthy. And he's newsworthy because he elicits emotions in people.
