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by skywhopper 41 days ago
This will never stop being the stupid approach. Destroy morale, lose institutional knowledge, waste months or years getting new folks up to speed, all for skills that could be developed in house and with targeted hiring by a functioning organization.
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This is only stupid if you value quality of outcome. If your sole metric is make stock price go up long enough to cash out this shit is brilliant.
Ya, we burned the planet to the ground, but for a few short moments we created a lot of shareholder value.