A former Google software engineer expressed frustration about the company’s layoffs in a now-viral Tweet and what he described as “slap in the face” kind of way to be terminated from your job.
Jeremy Joslin, whose LinkedIn profile says he had worked at the tech giant since 2003, said on Friday the company gave him the news over email. “It’s hard for me to believe that after 20 years at Google, I unexpectedly find out about my last day via an email,” he tweeted.
“What a slap in the face. I wish I could have said goodbye to everyone face to face.” In a post on LinkedIn, Joslin also said: “I never thought it would happen like this.”
Google layoffs
Google announced on Friday that it was laying off about 12,000 employees, or 6% of its global workforce, “across Alphabet, product areas, functions, levels and regions.”
CEO Sundar Pichai said the company had hired too quickly and couldn’t keep all its staff in the current “economic reality.”
According to CNN, the company joined other tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon, which announced a combined 28,000 job cuts last week.
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People venting on social media
Ex-Googlers have vented on LinkedIn and Twitter about their layoffs’ abrupt and impersonal nature. A Twitter user responding to Joslin said they found out about the layoffs after receiving a notification that their phone service would end.
“I found out because I woke up to my phone sending me a notification that my phone service would be shut off soon,” they wrote.
“And all my corp account stuff was locked out. Saw the email later.” Joslin replied: “Yeah I saw that notification too but thought it was just a bug. After I saw the email, it made sense.”
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“I was one of the 12,000 Googlers who woke up on Friday to Google’s: Notice regarding your employment,” wrote Kyle Harrison, former Head of Product Management, on LinkedIn, adding that he had been at the company for more than 16 years.
Felipe Barros, a vendor manager, said his role was eliminated despite being a high performer. “Unfortunately, I learned this friday that my role was among the 12,000 other ones impacted by Google’s layoff, despite being a high performer for a long time,” Barros said on LinkedIn.
Source: indiatimes.com
