Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?”::During a recent TGIF all-hands meeting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed what sources describe as a growing morale crisis inside the company.

  • chakan2@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Your relationship with management is always adversarial. They might put sugar and spice on it so you don’t see it, but they are not your friend.

    You sound like you’ve never been laid off.

    • frezik@midwest.social
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      9 months ago

      Don’t even have to be laid off to understand this. “You’ve asked for a 8% raise on the basis that you were promoted to a higher position last quarter and have been doing more work for the same pay, but we just can’t swing 8% right now. But it’s OK, we’re all friends here. How about 4% instead?”