Google, along with other big tech companies, chose to use email to notify employees that they were terminated. As I noted last week, this is the wrong way to terminate people, and your employees deserve better. But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe this impersonal form of termination is a
Repackaging old ideas is easy and that is basically what AI does. As much as we talk about it being artificial intelligence, it’s really only spitting out what others have written before. This is not to say it’s not incredibly helpful. For instance, in generating suggestions for interview
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai just laid off a bunch of employees at Google, with plans to lay off more–bringing the total to 12,000 roles. Pichai sent the following email to staff (emphasis added): I have some difficult news to share. We’ve decided to reduce our workforce by approximately 12,000 roles. We’ve
A couple of weeks ago, I had a transatlantic flight–Las Vegas to London. I wore cat slippers. This may seem in direct conflict with my general praise of dress codes, but they aren’t contradictory. The purpose of a dress code is to do two things: Set a standard, so people
Sometimes it might feel good to call a coworker a “soul-less [sic] and morally bankrupt ” person. And if that person is a lawyer, you might think that the jokes just write themselves. But nothing good can come out of attacking a lawyer via text for the crime
Being friends with your direct reports can cause problems. You need to treat everyone fairly, and if you’re besties with one employee and not others, you can be biased. And even if you’re perfectly fair, you still look biased, which isn’t good for morale. But what can you be if
When your boss is horrible, or customers have unreasonable and rude requests, or you just can’t take it anymore, you may wish to “rage quit” your job–walk out in a dramatic fashion. Quitting without notice makes for some sweet revenge. Who can blame you? It makes for dramatic
In the interest of full disclosure, I write on LinkedIn multiple times per week and I read there every day. Most of it is interesting or at least not terrible. But there are some awful posts over there. I’ve gathered the 10 that I find the most terrible
Someone in Senator Krysten Sinema’s office leaked a 37-page staffing guide to the Daily Beast. While they didn’t release all the text to protect their source, article author Sam Brodey says they did verify it. People think it’s a bit over the top–she has strict instructions for just about everything, including who
“No one is allowed to give notes to anyone else,” Basel English Panto Director Sarah Thomforde explained to our group of amateur actors. While my professional actor friend assures me this is standard in the theater–the last thing you want is a bunch of people running around acting like
