@monteluna

Personally, I find the current tech mentality of narrative shifting losses as wins loser behavior. Laying off your staff is not a "win". "Ripping off the band-aid" is not a learning experience. I have no idea why people consistently try to sell this idea to everyone. It's a failure, nothing else. 20 years ago, CEOs had had 2 jobs: Make yourself rich, and the people around you rich. Today, that mentality shifted. Everyone is a CEO of a failing company and trying to simultaneously larp as a college student, claiming receiving an F deserves social and financial rewards. We have somehow normalized giving participation trophies to leaders who are given all the capital and resources to be successful, and **still** find ways to fail. Layoffs and winddowns are not "success". A players find ways to make C players, B players. Saying the problem is the C players your team hired is a hilarious joke, because the executives are in charge of hiring and culture. If they were so bad, why did you hire them in the first place? The reality is Jack is managing a sinking ship, and believes throwing others off will get some buoyancy. This only works for a while because the holes are still there, and the crew is now demoralized and has less hands to plug them. If your company and leadership was that great, you wouldn't even be in the ocean to begin with.

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