Twilio announces 11% of employees will
lose jobs in ‘Anti-Racist’ layoffs
Fox Business,
by
Adam Sabes
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
9/20/2022 10:26:46 AM
Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson announced in a message to all employees that 11% of its workforce would be laid off, stating that they made the layoffs through an “Anti-Racist” and “Anti-Oppression” lens. The San Francisco-based corporate communications company CEO said in the message to employees that the layoffs are “wise and necessary.”(Snip)“As you all know, we are committed to becoming an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression company,” Lawson wrote. “Layoffs like this can have a more pronounced impact on marginalized communities, so we were particularly focused on ensuring our layoffs–while a business necessity today–were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 9/20/2022 10:38:02 AM (No. 1282652)
"Anti-Racist" means RACIST against white and asian people. Still VERY racist, and illegal.
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Illegal on its face. Probably also an excuse to discriminate against older workers.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
halfnorsk 9/20/2022 10:43:53 AM (No. 1282664)
Racial discrimination has not been so brazenly public since the days of Jim Crow.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
paral04 9/20/2022 10:47:55 AM (No. 1282668)
So this means they are getting rid of White and Chinese people. Good luck to them because they will need it to run their business. Whatever happened to merit based decisions?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jean123 9/20/2022 10:49:04 AM (No. 1282669)
Looks like a good stock to short.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
texaspast 9/20/2022 10:49:47 AM (No. 1282672)
Hmmm . . . Where did I put my copy of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? When I find it, I'll loan it to Mr. Lawson.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ramona 9/20/2022 10:51:25 AM (No. 1282676)
I've said this before, but these "WOKE" promoters of Diversity-Equity-Inclusion are just nasty. They sip on grievances all day and gorge on hatred for dinner. They need to be mocked at every opportunity for the lies they tell and the hatred they spread.
Ramona (the Pest)
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 9/20/2022 10:54:19 AM (No. 1282679)
It would be hilarious if not so sad... America is the least racist country... it is so un-racist, they have had to invent it in the form of "systemic" racism, i.e., you're racist and don't even know it. Huh? That a corporate executive could buy into this nonsense is crazy. Under Trump, blacks and Hispanics achieved job and income levels never before achieved. Under Biden?... quite the opposite. This CEO is a selfish, not overly bright fascist. If he had lived through the Nazi era, where do you think he would land? As the lone voice of reason? A rebel against the Nazis? No, he'd be right out front with swastikas from every window and SS insignia on his epaulets. How did this country spawn such weak stupid "leaders?" Is it the leftist educational system? They are mediocre intellects, for sure... but you have to be pretty stupid in the first place to accept their drivel. I subscribed to the National Review at 12, surrounded by liberal nonsense. It's not indoctrination if you're able to think for yourself.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 9/20/2022 10:56:04 AM (No. 1282681)
#7, Ramona, you are so right! Mr. Alinsky, paging Mr. Alinsky!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Californian 9/20/2022 10:58:14 AM (No. 1282684)
From the article, "In the past year, Twilio shares have declined in value by over 78%".
A great example of go woke go broke.
I expect multiple lawsuits filed by Monday. Twilio is obviously run by morons. Don't they have a single lawyer on retainer to keep them from doing and saying stupid things like this?
The lawyers are probably woke and incompetent, too.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Quigley 9/20/2022 11:00:01 AM (No. 1282689)
How can i get to be this Self Righteous and Holier Than Thou?
I want my excrement to smell good too! How do i become so godlike! Imagine having pure souls like these among us and enriching themselves as they pontificate their holinesses!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 9/20/2022 11:10:12 AM (No. 1282702)
I couldn't help myself. He is a fat white bald guy in his forties. Uck.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
TLCary 9/20/2022 11:17:21 AM (No. 1282713)
Who makes money from those text message spam you ignore, it’s Twillo. They sell the software that makes it all happen. Even if you don’t let the people spamming you make a dime, Twillo will still get paid for their part.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
padiva 9/20/2022 11:17:51 AM (No. 1282714)
The attorneys who guided them through this policy are looking for a nice payday as the lawsuits roll in and they have never-ending billable hours.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
TLCary 9/20/2022 11:23:11 AM (No. 1282722)
And…. Twillo has one token black director on the board in a meaningless token position. Lybra Clemons
Chief Diversity Officer
Marketing, Sales, Finance, Legal, Technology, Management - they leave that to the “other” people.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
raspberry 9/20/2022 11:25:34 AM (No. 1282726)
So, Lawson is white and is he leaving first to lead the way? Leaders lead, don't they?
I guess not.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
rightdog 9/20/2022 11:28:05 AM (No. 1282732)
Well, it is a SF based company so that tells me all I need to know about the wokeness of the management. This dumb move will backfire, just wait. The unintended consequences will begin in 3,2,1....
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/20/2022 11:35:20 AM (No. 1282740)
Twilio announces 11% of their workforce will lose their jobs through 'anti-racist' layoffs. Watch half of their workforce volunteer for those layoffs when they realize their employer isn't worth working for.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 9/20/2022 11:39:38 AM (No. 1282746)
Twillio sounds like a company that deserves to go out of business, and it looks like it is on that vector - 78% decline in stock price, and laying off 11% of its workforce.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
columba 9/20/2022 12:00:16 PM (No. 1282767)
Am I supposed to know what a twilio is?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 9/20/2022 12:16:40 PM (No. 1282781)
Never heard of Twilio before, so I looked it up.
Looks to be a tech-company that steals or buys other people's ideas, mostly frivolous ones, for their own applications, which are also frivolous .
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Cherrybark 9/20/2022 12:30:43 PM (No. 1282796)
Links to images of Mr "White Bread" himself
https://www.google.com/search?q=twilio+ceo+jeff+lawson&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwit4bmp5aP6AhUDmGoFHQZvBaUQ_AUoAnoECAIQBA&biw=1873&bih=1056&dpr=1
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
lgplgp 9/20/2022 1:10:01 PM (No. 1282835)
As always in these such "down staffings" the competent employees will take the buyout and leave first as they will have no trouble getting another job. The incompetent employees will hang onto the job for dear life. What Twillo is doing is explicitly calling their BIPOC employees incompetent. Anti-Racist much?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
SALady 9/20/2022 1:25:09 PM (No. 1282847)
Racism is racism. And it's still very illegal in this country.
I hope Twilio is ready for a whole bunch of lawsuits...
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Mr Clean 9/20/2022 2:15:58 PM (No. 1282875)
I guess if you can fight fire with fire you can fight racism with more racism. Apparently all the irony and self-awareness meters on the left are way overdue for calibration.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
hershey 9/20/2022 2:32:25 PM (No. 1282899)
What's a Twillo?? Some new kind of STD???
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 9/20/2022 5:37:18 PM (No. 1283051)
Apparently in the parallel universe of Twilio, two wrongs do make a right.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
JackBurton 9/20/2022 5:59:41 PM (No. 1283061)
Can't wait until they start firing blacks from NFL teams and NBA teams and hiring others to get a ratio that 'looks like America' in place.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Faithfully 9/20/2022 10:38:45 PM (No. 1283359)
It is over. They were warned in the 60's by the older generation but they sang Kumbaya thinking it would not hurt them.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
mifla 9/21/2022 4:11:21 AM (No. 1283471)
Let the lawsuits begin.
In a related story, several ex-employees of Twilio have changed their voter registration to Republican.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 9/21/2022 10:19:47 AM (No. 1283703)
I smell many, many large discrimination lawsuits. Keep up the good woke work boys, your bigotry is well displayed.
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