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I’d be more worried about your CEO not knowing how to use the word implication
Autocorrect error?
It’s jarring that they would share why they let someone go. I’ve been at small startups where we had to let people go for one reason or another, but the reasons why were never shared publicly. There are plenty of reasons why that information should not be shared.
I’d take note of this event. If it starts to become a pattern, get out fast.
Sounds to me like this CEO never fired anyone before and had no idea how to properly handle it.
Your CEO should know better than to share why an employee was let go, the employee could use it for litigation. They were probably trying to justify it so it wouldn’t scare the rest of the team but it’s unprofessional to say the least. At any rate it’s a red flag all-around.
Start looking outside ASAP
This speaks volumes to the CEOs lack of experience, professionalism and class.
❌immediately to LinkedIn, clearly doesn’t value their people and is using this as a scare tactic
That was definitely an over share and unprofessional. The CEO should have just said “so and so is no longer with the company, please refer to this employee if you have any questions, for they will be taking over their duties” or something like that.
My former company had a slack channel for announcing arrivals and departures. You could have mistaken it for a train station.
It was Toxic AF.
That is terrible, hopefully you’re out of there now.
Lots to worry about here. Leadership is key and unless you're communicating with the needs to know crowd, this information should be kept private.
and this is super weird for a CEO to do on Slack. Super. Weird.
I’d have to agree with other post. Its most likely being announced this way so it can be used as a deterrent for subpar work product and low productivity amongst other employees. However, I find that incredibly problematic. I also wonder why the CEO doesn’t understand that this could have the opposite effect. It’s concerning all around.
There is a new trend in management about sharing this transparently and with all staff. Without a psych profile of your boss it’s hard to say if he’s gassing up the rocket ship for success or out of touch with your needs as an employee. Generally speaking, if this is the first time you are hearing about a layoff in a 30 person company, your CEO is either way too lax or some kind of magical HR genius.
FWIW This is described as a firing not a layoff.
Even as a 15 person startup, we avoided publicly dismissing anyone on slack. We made mention of folks moving on but never wrote anything negative in Slack. The CEOs decision to do that reflects on how he runs the company.
“Implication?” What on earth?
We've had similar issues - company of 50- it's generally distasteful and people don't like it, especially other new starters who might start dressing their role security.
Most of us shrug it off and the result is that we do have a high performance team... but we're also a team of heroes... inherently unscaleable tbh.
As we create more fixed processes and work insructions we can alleviate the expertise bottlenecks and easily hand processes to junior or new members with a sign off requirement.
That sets them up for success without needing to be heroes, takes the pressure off us, and ultimately let's the company not have to be brutally high minimum bar - letting us scale our talent pool.
Happened again yesterday... and yeah... 🤷🏾♂️ not a good way to do things (that's not a comment on whether the decision was right or not) it's just distasteful.
They’d never do the work. You know because of the implication
Run
Lmao because bro refused to do a 10 man job
30 people total is small. If they haven’t experienced many terminations in the infancy of the company, likely they were just concerned staff would be worried about more terminations and set the record straight.
I agree and like the transparency. But that is a slack message that should have been an email and probably written with a little more empathy.