[aisofteng]

> Sadly, the changes also include a significant reduction in our workforce by approximately 250 people. These are individuals of exceptional professional and personal caliber who have made outstanding contributions to who we are today. To each of them, I extend my heartfelt thanks and deepest regrets that we have come to this point.

From TFA.

[9935c101ab17a66]

> and if you want to announce other changes, do it in a separate announcement

From TFC.

[afiori]

it is still a weird suggestion. given two truths "we are currently failing" and "we decided to change course" it makes sense to bundle them into "we tried something, we must face it didn't work, there are negative consequences now, we are hopeful a new direction will save us".

sometime corporate doublespeak is just trying to communicate a narrative or a vision for the future, which in terms of long term survival are often more important than clearly stated facts.

[hn_throwaway_99]

In this situation the corporate doublespeak just came across as dishonest, as we would somehow skip the part about the layoffs.

The CEO of Carta made a post about layoffs they had there a couple months back, and the contrast with this Mozilla post is night and day IMO: https://medium.com/@henrysward/cartas-covid-19-layoff-cbb80e...

[9nGQluzmnq3M]

Yes, but that's largely because they serve different purposes. Mozilla's announcement is a press release for external consumption. Carta's post is internal and for employees, and I'm sure there was one of these for Mozilla as well, but we're not privy to it.

[sciurus]

You are, it's at https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Message-...

[9935c101ab17a66]

I actually don’t disagree, I just took issue with the terse “RTFA” when it appears that same person didn’t read the comment they were replying too.

[SpelingBeeChamp]

TFC? (And TFA, above?)

[ilkkal]

"The Fine Comment" and "Article", respectively. Sometimes another adjective is substituted, by angry people.

[SpelingBeeChamp]

Thank you :)