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		omnicognate on Dec 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Better.com CEO fires 900 employees on Zoom call Call them individually. It's not the fact it was done by zoom that's surprising/unusual, it's the fact it was done en masse.

egeozcan on Dec 6, 2021 [–]

And they had to hear the CEO say he cried the first time he did this, without knowing what it is about. Why is he talking about his feelings? Perhaps his assistants were fired too so there weren't anyone to check his speech? Crazy.

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