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Ben - [C/x]
@benersing
Early in my career, the company I was with downsized and asked the ~30 of us to decide who stayed or left. The reasoning was that those ready to leave could raise their hand and help their friends stay. You're a founder—what do you think of this approach?
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Linda Xie
@linda
Personally not a fan of it at all, think founders should be opinionated and decisive with big decisions like this + creates guilt/tension among employees
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Sam (crazy candle person) ✦
@samantha
This ain’t survivor 😭 these are people lives you’re playing with. Would’ve left regardless of whether my colleagues picked me or not. Horrible way to downsize. Sounds like the founder felt so much guilt that it overrode their senses for picking the actual valuable ppl to stay
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Jess Sloss !!!
@jess
Chicken shit move from leadership.
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Ayo Of Asgard
@ayomide.eth
The ugly side of being an employee :(
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McBain
@mcbain
Cowards
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Zach
@zd
Awful approach IMO. It’s the founder’s job to hire and fire. Simple as that. If you can’t/won’t do that when you need to, don’t be a founder.
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Zinger ↑
@zinger
Not a fan, founders should take responsibility for their companies rather than deflecting to their employees If they were in the unfortunate spot where they had to downsize, it's up to them to figure out how to navigate that in the best way possible given the circumstances
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SydneyJason
@sydneyjason
This is super complex but also a very mature way to do it. Not talked about: having the wrong people to stay after a layoff can be insanely toxic to the culture…
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Daniel Lombraña
@teleyinex.eth
What do people think about this case from Matt Mullenweg https://ma.tt/2024/10/alignment/
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