Twilio promises ‘anti-racist’ layoffs(fortune.com)

12 pointsby Melchizedekvor 4 Jahren6 comments

https://fortune.com/2022/09/14/twilio-declares-anti-racist-layoffs/

7 comments

>"so we were particularly focused on ensuring our layoffs -- while a business necessity today -- were carried out through a Racist/Racially-Oppression lens."

Fixed that for you.. And oh boy would I not want to be one of this companies lawyers in the coming months and no doubt years! Yikes

muchtestvor 4 Jahren

The legal class is the big winner in these things - win or lose. Lawyers get paid

tarakatvor 4 Jahren

A predictable result of allowing (even encouraging) all groups but one to organize and lobby for their ethnic self-interest.

cafardvor 4 Jahren

As I recall, Roger Taney said that was just wrong.

josephcsiblevor 4 Jahren

Isn't it illegal for membership of protected classes to be used as a factor in deciding who to lay off?

brodouevencodevor 4 Jahren

This is the era that in the future will be marked as having nothing of substance and saturated with loaded terms that don't mean anything.

throwawayacc2vor 4 Jahren