The CEO tweeted it before we were told anything.

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Anonymous
· Account Executive · Former employee · 2023 · 4 Jan 2023
I woke up to a notification that Marc Benioff had tweeted about the layoffs. I was still in bed. I hadn't had a single communication from my manager, my HR business partner, or anyone in the company. I went to the office anyway because I didn't know what else to do. My badge worked. I sat at my desk for forty minutes before my manager called me over. A woman I'd sat next to for three years found out she was laid off from the same tweet I'd seen. Her manager had been told to wait for a specific time — but that time hadn't been co-ordinated with the press announcements. She found out from social media that she no longer had a job. She'd been there six years. That's not a mistake. That's what happens when the priority is managing the share price reaction, not the human beings.

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