Google employees allowed to work from
home Friday to ‘absorb this difficult
news’ of parent Alphabet laying off
12,000 people
Fortune,
by
Trey Williams
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
1/20/2023 1:05:25 PM
After announcing the company was laying off some 12,000 employees on Friday, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai put on his velvet glove and allowed those still at the company to work from home in order to help deal with the “difficult news.”
In a memo to staff Friday—a version of which was shared on the company’s blog—Pichai said the cuts, which account for roughly 6% of the company’s staff, will be felt across Alphabet’s product areas, business functions, hierarchy, and regions.
“This will mean saying goodbye to some incredibly talented people we worked hard to hire and have loved working with. I’m deeply sorry for that,”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Nimby 1/20/2023 1:10:27 PM (No. 1383328)
Good grief!! Are these wimpy children or adults? Do they think they are still in college being molly-coddled?
18 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Blizzard 1/20/2023 1:10:58 PM (No. 1383329)
We have become an incredibly soft country. These feelings-based policies and actions need to go away.
18 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 1/20/2023 1:11:45 PM (No. 1383330)
working from home keeps employees from gathering together at the coffee machine and talking and noticing who isn't there any more
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MissMann 1/20/2023 1:14:23 PM (No. 1383335)
If I were one of the ones still employed, I'd get my backside into the office immediately and start showing my worth to the company. Sounds like Pichai is looking for a quick list of the next bunch to let go.
19 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/20/2023 1:18:57 PM (No. 1383338)
What about Monday for the severely overwrought?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
AltaD 1/20/2023 1:21:38 PM (No. 1383343)
FTA: please take good care of yourselves as you absorb this difficult news
Seriously? In the old days you simply avoided eye contact with your coworkers as they packed up a bankers box and got back to work because you knew that in the next round of layoffs it could be you.
24 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 1/20/2023 1:42:15 PM (No. 1383358)
Call the Wwwhhhaaammbulance!
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May I suggest Uber, Door Dash, Barista for snooty coffee shop, or Delivery for a flower shop.
If I was still hiring employees, I'd want to see "gut bucket disposal technician for a local slaughterhouse" on a resume.
We have created a generation of Faberge Eggs...little Commie wanna-be, Dacha-owning apparatchiks who think they are owed deference and accomodations simply because they are breathing and self-worthy.
Either way they go about their preferred goals, they still have no idea that they could end up escorting a trailer of "meat byproducts" to the dog food factory.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jhpeters2 1/20/2023 2:23:26 PM (No. 1383391)
Not a bad idea on google's part. There will be fewer people there when the recently terminated, gun carrying incels come to shoot up the place.
5 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
paral04 1/20/2023 2:24:13 PM (No. 1383392)
Isn't it enough that these filthy rich tech tycoons have billions? Now, they are throwing people to the wolves who helped them get their loot so we down trodden tax payers have to pick up their unemployment benefit tab.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/20/2023 2:34:36 PM (No. 1383401)
My former employer never did that, and they cut over 200k employees while I was there. The rest came to work and continued to do their jobs. Can't hide stuff like this. In the end, employees lined up to volunteer for layoffs.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
TJ54 1/20/2023 2:42:40 PM (No. 1383405)
LOL - poor little snowflakes!!
5 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 1/20/2023 2:55:26 PM (No. 1383410)
Pichai states - "The fact that these changes will impact the lives of Googlers weighs heavily on me, and I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here.”
Sounds just like a politician who screwed up - takes responsibility with no consequences for himself. Why even say something like that unless you're planning on resigning? As for the 12K being laid off, how many of you voted for Biden? This global recession is your fault. You had a great growing economy due to Trump's leadership, yet threw it all away because Orange Man Bad. You voted for a mental invalid who knocked the legs out of the economy on Day One by cutting off domestic oil production which in turn started one snowflake rolling down the mountain. I hope you all are learning a valuable lesson but I doubt it'll sink in.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
daisey 1/20/2023 3:03:01 PM (No. 1383413)
Gee, as a retired OR nurse, I can honestly say that never happened in any facility I ever worked in. Not even during Covid. These poor spoiled children. How has the left wrecked their work ethic, their morals, their conscience. Where are the parents? Do they agree with this mollycoddling of their little darlings?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Avikingman 1/20/2023 3:10:20 PM (No. 1383420)
Feelings, oh oh, feelings...
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Oh, the poor snowflakes. When I was laid off, from more than one employer, I was never offered work-at-home. Being laid off is tough, and the best thing to do is start looking for a job immediately.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rich323 1/20/2023 4:44:19 PM (No. 1383465)
I googled articles about conservatives being upset over Google firings, but the search came back with zero results.
2 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
lftrn97 1/20/2023 5:25:56 PM (No. 1383485)
That pesky requirement investors have for net profit (clearly a racist, homophobic, white Male supremacist construct)
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 1/20/2023 5:43:47 PM (No. 1383496)
I've been at work for a couple of layoffs of others. Not a pleasant time. Interestingly many improved their lives and were glad they had been laid off after they recovered.
4 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
smokincol 1/20/2023 5:47:25 PM (No. 1383498)
show of hands, please ...
Question: how many of us has been laid off or terminated from a job and just lived with the situation and moved on?
what is wrong with these people that they need time to "‘absorb this difficult news’" of facing a lay off, just get up off your moon chairs, take a shower, shave off your whiskers, get a hair cut and go look for a job the way some, or many, of us had to
7 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/20/2023 5:51:36 PM (No. 1383504)
#20, when my badge didn’t work one morning to enter the building, I guessed I had to report to HR. Went on to become VP and comfortably retire twenty years later. Sh** happens!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
joew9 1/20/2023 6:30:31 PM (No. 1383521)
They should announce that there are going to be layoffs. And those that are too emotional over the news can stay home Friday. Then come Monday everyone that stayed home Friday is cut.
2 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/20/2023 6:41:36 PM (No. 1383531)
They can all learn to mine coal. After all, we’re going to need it to power all of their virtue-signaling EV’s.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Faithfully 1/20/2023 8:45:55 PM (No. 1383598)
Polish up your resumes, kids. The free kitchen is closing.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
chance_232 1/20/2023 9:41:04 PM (No. 1383633)
I guarantee that the vast majority of those leaving will have no negative impact on the functioning of the company. Large companies tend to get very fat when times are good. They tend to create useless positions like diversity directors and other positions to do nothing to increase the bottom line.
If your position doesn't demonstrably help increase revenue, be very worried when the economy dips.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
DVC 1/20/2023 11:29:39 PM (No. 1383669)
Fewer people will be doing evil.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mifla 1/21/2023 6:03:25 AM (No. 1383718)
Large companies typically have lots of deadwood or jobs that do not contribute to the bottom line. A 6% reduction in Google's workforce will not even be noticed by the real workers.
2 people like this.
#20: I hit the 10th layoff in nine months at a Missle and Space Division of GE because money was needed for the Vietnam war. Stood in a snake line for hours in the morning along with 2000 other people. Then I went to get my hair done in the afternoon. We got married that night at our wedding for 150 people. Some wedding present! Within three weeks I had another job and in four months my husband left for Vietnam. Nothing in life is guaranteed. Things like this just make you stronger and I have had worse crisises to live through. (But my marriage is still going strong.)
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
rfr46 1/21/2023 8:41:31 AM (No. 1383814)
There will probably be an increase in legal department to handle the wrongful discharge lawsuits by the affected employees, particularly those based on civil rights claims.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 1/21/2023 9:25:52 AM (No. 1383862)
Poor babies. Waaaaaaah
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
franq 1/21/2023 9:36:20 AM (No. 1383872)
We've had several layoffs where I work. A couple days prior to one of them, they gave out free squeezable "stress balls" to everyone. I said someone has a sick sense of humor.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/21/2023 10:43:23 AM (No. 1383991)
Alphabet? Oh, yea, COMMIEIEIO
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/21/2023 11:00:25 AM (No. 1384024)
It's only fair, they can cry in their basements all they like without being embarrassed, unless there are those who like to cry in public to show us how sensitive they are? The bad news is that will have to pay for their own lattes and scones.
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