Jan 23, 2018

Layoffs With A Word Salad On The Side

So Snap (the parent company of Snapchat) lays off some folks.

Part of the rational is, "We also need to have an organization that scales internally. This means that we must become exponentially more productive as we add additional resources and team members.”

Bravo to whomever crafted that particular word salad. Because that is a lot of nonsense packed into two sentences.

Scale internally = do more than the job you were hired to do
Exponentially more productive = do the work of more than one person

Why would anyone believe the nonsense about adding additional team members when the company just axed a couple of dozen, and stated that surviving employees will need to work more hours with fewer resources?

On the flip side, the investor-class does well in the process. Stock closed up on the day of the announcement.

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