News · moment 12 of 28
The Era of the Mega Layoff
from Eric Swalwell, The Great Layoff, & We Endorse Katie Porter | The Tim Dillon Show #492 · #492
1 min
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Tim reads about Snap, Block, Oracle, and Amazon's mass layoffs, contrasting today's impersonal mass-email firings with the old personal 'we have to let you go' conversations.
- Layoffs used to be personal — a manager would call you in and explain why they wished they could keep you.
- Tim acts out the fired employee Nancy breaking down, knowing it was coming but not so soon, because her husband Cliff is under investigation for shooting a black child.
- Now you just get an email instead of that personal touch.