Layoffs
I find it odd how frequently leadership and HR lie when there appears to be little to no upside and a fairly large downside.
E.g., the recent FB layoffs. I was chatting with a friend of mine who's a very senior IC about the layoffs there and his read is that the worst thing about the layoffs was the misleading messaging from the company leading up to the layoffs in way that seems likely to permanently reduce trust in future leadership and HR messaging.
Layoffs
@danluu This is no excuse but I'm guessing leadership was directed to follow a playbook from a consulting firm hired to manage the layoffs. The priority is typically CYA and avoiding saying anything that suggests leadership was responsible for this outcome.
Layoffs
@ichthyos @danluu I saw behaviour with even less upside ("say that a decision was arbitrary" vs "provide reasons that one can verify to be false in 2 minutes") in a situation when there would be no consultants involved, so I would expect that there's some weird reason why people end up bullshitting then.
