A lay off is a lay off. What wrong did he (the CEO) do by doing it in a single meeting?
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He called them âdumb dolphinsâ in an email last year. and then in an all employee meeting AFTER the layoff, with the remaining employees, he accused the laid off employees of âstealingâ from the company since they did 2 hrs of work a day but got paid for 8.
Point is, its better to be duplicitous and outwardly caring, even if you are a callous capitalist.
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how big of a crime is to call someone âdumb dolphinâ ? You have not clue how many names I get called everyday. And is working for 2 hours only for a pay of 8 hours not stealing ?
The more interesting point here is: What are they calling you? Any good/creative ones? 
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If the employees were getting paid for 8 hours for only 2 hours of work, that is a fit case for getting rid of them.
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Personally I donât see anything wrong with firing 900 employees in a single Zoom meeting. If it needed to be done in individual meetings itâs a ton of work and provides no added value over the group meeting except privacy concerns. But does it really matter? Some people are just too sensitive and brittle.
I think people are just upset that this CEO fired 900 employees, not really the way he fired them. They think the CEO has too much power and itâs not right so they want to hurt him. All this âdumb dolphinâ and âstealingâ issues are not that significant if you ask me. They show that the CEO is not a nice guy, but nice guys donât make CEOs typically.
So next time any company needs to lay off a large number of employees, it needs to be in a very very discrete and hush-hush way.
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What about Zillow layoffs? No mass hysteria there?
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There is a CA law that requires reporting of larger layoffs.
The way left and communists are gaining control over California, there will be no contractors, and short term employees, and it will become impossible to layoff employees.
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Seriously. Could you imagine how a Tesla layoff would go? Elon Musk wouldnât even mince words if this was what happened.
Following are the comments from current better employees and most ppl agree mass layoff over zoom was not an issue. People are infuriated about the way he handled himself after firing. They laid off because of poor business decisions and not because 900 people were incompetent.
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Left and communist are going crazy over this firing. Vikas (the ceo in question) did something right. Or the embarrassment of getting caught with pants down is too revealing for the cheats? Who wants to get caught clocking 2 hours of work and billing 8 hours.
I think you donât read blind. Thereâs no left, right. Current employees donât feel good irrespective of political affiliation. Lol so Vishal never lies?
May be i should wait for some professor from Harvard or other school with expertise on justice to comment.
The rules of employment are simple. It is not America of 1850. You are no ones slave. Nor does any one owe you a job for ever.
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For typical companies, each manager oversees 5-10 employees. And if they are layoff the bottom 10%, that means each manager has to talk to 1 (or maybe 2) employee. If they are laying off entire division, then that would be different.
For a manager to spend 10-15 minutes per employee individually or 20-30 minutes total on 2 employees, that is not much overhead at all.
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No on stopped your from running your company the way you like. Now I understand where this phrase comes from. Mind your own business. I think this case of firing was a good trigger to start a discussion on what exactly an employee-employer relation is after all.
Nothing is problem. It was a layoff of unwanted workers. What problem did you see?