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Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed' (www.sfgate.com)
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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 173 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 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.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  1. Who writes an email directly to the CEO of their company, and
  2. Who would that email have to be from for the CEO to actually bother reading it?

I'm guessing it's not your rank-and-file type "people".

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 years ago

Managers from unaffected departments who are glad they have less internal competition. And that's pretty much it.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Certainly only certain people have email addresses that can even send to his inbox. Everyone else would be blocked.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"This is a conversation I could imagine happening if I spoke to my employees directly, and that's as good as an actual conversation."

[–] SolarMech@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago

Expect this from corporate and political types alike.

[–] Delta_V@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

"a lot of people are saying" = the voices in my head are telling me