Didn’t even know a Zoom call could hold 900 people 😭

If they have the ability to monitor the 250 people who were abusing the system, then why not just fire them? This is so sad for people who might have been working with integrity.

I was one of the 900 and did work all 40+ hours/week. As soon as the zoom meeting ended all of our computers logged out and we couldn’t even say goodbye to our colleagues. I understand downsizing because of the company going public and all that but we worked hard and couldn’t even let people know we wouldn’t be at our next meetings.

The head of this company needs to remember: "What goes around, comes around." Just because his company is successful today, doesn't mean that it won't fail tomorrow.

Damn. 900 people is a lot at one time. Christmas is right around the corner. I feel bad for the ones who actually worked hard and relied on this job as a primary source of income. I hope they can find another job asap.

At least fire people after Christmas. A lot of companies don’t do interviews during December since it’s the holiday season.

Y’all this is absolutely horrific. I really hope all these people find “better” jobs with companies that actually appreciate them.

I’m here for Squeex

Fun fact: They fired their Diversity team

These companies: “Our business is going bad, let’s fire those who had absolutely nothing to do with our business strategy, but the managers sure deserve a raise and stock options!”

They didn’t steal time, that was definitely a lie/excuse after the video went viral, he made no mention of it in the initial video, nor would they be offered severance packages and fake apologies if they were stealing time…plus he mentioned he did this type of lay off before and “cried” last time 🤦🏾‍♀️

“Sir you fired 900 people!” “Yeah but like 250 of them weren’t even clocking their hours in right!” “You fired 900 people.”

You know this guy is going to give himself a HUGE ! Christmas bonus for firing all these people

My company did this last year. But it was only about 100 employees. But it was still over a video call. Most of the guys were packed in a room with a camera on them so everyone else on the call got to see their reactions. It was like a public execution. Quite disgusting

Regardless of whether the employees did something wrong, this matter should be resolved in a better way. It is just awful to fire people before the year end holiday. It demoralises them and their families so their Christmas enjoyment is ruined and the stress starts piling up straight away.

This is why you never get too involved in your job. Even if it's a great job, you love it, ECT, they honestly do not give a flying monkeys tail about you.

I feel so sorry for those 900 people who lost their jobs

Christmas is by far the worst time of year to lose your job, especially if you have kids.

900 people he hired that he says weren't performing well. 900 people? Who hired that many incompetent folks because that's the ONE person I'd fire. I call bull!

I know how those 900 people feel, I just lost my job on 11/30/2021. The crazy thing is, I didn’t get fired, it was because our contract with the city ended, and they didn’t want to renew it even though the job was not done. I was working as a case manager for a nonprofit organization that was providing rent assistance for low income families during the pandemic.

working online or from home is not easy. There might be issues like the internet. As long as the employees did the tasks and met their deadlines, they shouldn't be fired.

Now the one thing I'm wondering here is what the other 650 people did to get terminated - I can fully understand firing that 250 since what they did is wrong and termination is the appropriate action, but what of the other 650 people? And to fire that many people right before Christmas? C'mon now.

One of the most important lessons I learned from this “pandemic” is that no one’s job is secure and never to trust the owner of a company.

The board of directors of this company needs to review the CEO. This had to be one of the most un professional individuals. His internal email last year calling staff dumb as an example.

“More than 10 million jobs opened” lmao people aren’t going to work for a 20k salary anymore

Bloke is a billionaire and receives $25 million in executive bonuses. "We must survive"

HR: “Make sure there is that personal touch afterwards”. Cuz adding a personal touch when getting fired makes it so much better 😂

I worked for a company that had all of us meet at a conference room. They told us there would be a meeting and food. While we were all sitting down they handed out envelopes. Then the boss told us that some would be staying and some would be going. He said inside the envelope we would find out. Imagine a whole room of people opening envelopes finding out they had been fired. There were only three that kept their jobs and I was one of them. Was a horrible day for everyone. Oh, there was no food.

I think lying to the employees is worse. Employers can fire you on their bad day. 1:30

And this is why I only do what I’m paid for :) People don’t break your “back” unless is for yourself

Awh the girl: "after all we did?!" Poor girl. I understand how you feel. It's like he just took you out with the trash. I'm so sorry

10 million open jobs in America… paying how much? Minimum wage? Customer facing roles? Didn’t you guys just do a video of a customer throwing hot soup in an employee’s face?

Dang, Could have at least given the other people that did nothing wrong a 2 week notice that they were getting fired. People have bills to pay. 😬

So messed up. I felt this. I was laid off on Christmas Eve.

Squeeks was one of them XD on to better things... He's a twitch streamer now tldr

9 million of those 10 million "open jobs" don't even pay a living wage.....

Thank god he did this over a zoom meeting. He'll have enough time escape the angry mob.

And they wonder why some people quit without notifying there managers . 😡😡😡😤

This just taught me to never give any company/corporation 100% of yourself or effort.

I squeexed everywhere

He also emailed staff calling them stupid dolphins. This ceo should be "terminated effective immediately".

Well at least he didn't have them drive down to the office like most employers do. Wasting time and gas, when they know good and well that they're firing you.

Ceo: because almost 250 out of 900 people cheated the system. I'm firing all you guys, too much work to find out who did it. Fired employee: so you've chosen death ☠

At least that man is respectful enough to show himself in the video call and fire them, most corporates would ask their HR teams to send them termination by email.

he's lying, they have money problems and this was the only solution he can think of.

Companies don't want us to work from home because they don't believe we'll actually work, yet when THEY work from home, or the golf course or whatever... ☹

I will never understand how companies make so much money, yet refuse to pay their employees while living in castles..

Now also referenced in the last episode of Succession. Even some lines taken verbatim

Don't believe the hype that they were all "under performers". This is what a better employee still there posted on Blind: "Am a survivor. Can confirm the meeting where we were informed we survived was comparable to a speech Seal Team 6 might have received. Prety gut-wrenching times. Team morale is in the trash and everyone looking over their shoulder considering there was no legitimate reasoning to who was selected. They were top performers, bottom performers as well as several people who employees would refer to as "the face of Better". Anyone who wants to learn more or...."

You sort of forgot to mention the MASSIVE RAISE he gave HIMSELF last year.

He was quoted saying “it was Between his jet or 900 people feeding their families and frankly it was an easy decision”

I feel bad for the 900 employees. That’s so rude to do that.

First off I didn't even know zoom could hold 900 people. And what an awful way to fire someone espically before the holidays. These companies have no shame.

Now some of the other employees will be tasked with whatever those fired were doing plus their own job. Way to go with overworking the faithful ones. Typical selfish corporate moves. 🙄

And people have the ability to put this "man" and his business out of commission!!! 🤔 He has no private investors nor any billionaires backing him!!! Shut his company down!!!!!!!! 🤷🏾‍♀️

This is brutal af , at least have the decency to send them personalised emails .

He absolutely grateful to zoom.Firing 900 employees virtualy and end the meeting right away.

Oh yes, 900 office workers will take all those Subway and Burger King jobs...not!

Imagine someone just getting forwarded the Zoom invite thinking it was a Virtual Xmas Party... 😳 This was just so unprofessional and nochalant for something meant to be handled with courtesy and discretion. 😵

RIP Squeex

If this man would do that to employees, just imagine what he is doing to clients!

If you can afford to lose 900 employees all at once, either your company isn't doing well because it doesn't have business coming in, or the employees did such little work it made a negligible difference.

"Omg! Why don't people want to come back to work!" "It must be those government handouts!"

"10 million open jobs" she's so out of touch and doesn't realize that that doesn't guarantee that people will actually be hired.

Wouldn’t be surprised if this makes his other coworkers quit on their own

10 million open jobs in America? More like 10 million open jobs in America with no benefits and very low pay.

900 people were stealing... Right... Something is not right there! If I had any business with them, I would just run!

Imagine the person that missed the zoom meeting, comes to work💀

900 people applying for unemployment from the same company.

So if 250+ people only worked for 2 hours, while getting paid for 8 hours, why not just fire those people, instead of 900 people?

Squeex didn't deserve this

"my company doesn't deserve to fail even if I have to fire almost 1000 people"

Here come a new class of entrepreneurs! Nothing puts you on track to work for yourself like being fired from a company you gave your all to. May these people find and align with their true paths to prosperity!

There is no way that reaction is real 😂

perfect reason to never give a 2 weeks notice

This is the definition of a few bad apples rotting the entire basket.

He was too scared to hold a physical meeting and tell all those people they were fired. Biggest loser of 2021'.

Imagine the trauma for the rest of the employees everytime they need to attend another zoom meeting

The same thing happened to me in 2015. It wasn't Zoom, but it was a "special video feed" that they showed on a big screen in the meeting rooms of all 5 locations. It was the CEO of the new company that had acquired us announcing that over 100 people from our company (including me) were being let go. It was the first time he had ever spoken to any of us.

10 million jobs and not a single one will even email me to say I didn't get the position. NICE

"after all we did" yea get used to being disposable much like everything else in our society.

What’d he have to gain by firing all 900 employees? And around the holidays, really?

This dude singlehandedly made zoom a battle Royale and won

Losing your job is no joke, my dad got fired with no reasoning (i had no idea companys could do this tbh). After 7 months, interviews and interviews my dad finally got hired, a better position than he previously was too, a plant manager. Can't even process what that would've been like if we weren't financially stable, we probably would've been forced to move, which would ultimately suck

I guess they're not "better". For real, this sucks, especially right before Christmas.

10 million open jobs that mostly offer 7 dollars or even less. Welcome to America 😏

Reminder that human resources is not your friend. Their job is to protect the company, not you.

Probably could have been a “Better” way to do that 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

How many of those 10M jobs pay their employees a livable wage?! Ill wait...

I think working at home is harder when you have to take care of kids too. As long they get their work done I don't see it as lying. They can be at work in the office not even working.

The bar my neighbor works at just closed. The owner gave no notice or excuse, just fired them all, right before Christmas.

I only know about this because of squeex

“They were stealing from you” my guy was at 16 million a year and now 50 million yeahhhhh his employers were the one stealing

Keep in mind the company just received a $750 Million cash infusion, and then subsequently laid off almost 1,000 people before the holidays.

In my country this CEO would be fired and put into justice right now

Don't forget to mention he got a 25 million dollar bonus for the year. I'm sure he worked hard for all that money and far more than 2 hours a day 🙄

My dads work did something like this when he got fired (firing multiple people at once) and then my dad and a bunch of of his friends sued them for firing all Hispanics. They settled.

"If they were doing a full day's worth of work in less time, they deserve to get paid for a full day's worth of work." Someone in the comments said this, and I completely agree.

Such a delicate delivery, "your employment here is terminated effective immediately".

When an employee resigns fairly they want that person to give a notice one month prior, and still they hold the salary for 2 months after resigning.. But when a employer fires , they do it without any notice , why is this injustice? Why isnt the government coming up with laws to arrest or atleast fine those companies heavily who does immediate firing without a period notice..Such corporate bosses must be jailed with longer jailtimes and be fined heavily, coz ur not firing only a employee, ur messing the structure of a family, ur disabling the family of paying the bills, promises made to their kids, rents, bills, future trips, EMI's etc.. Its nothing but violation of human rights.. this is a human rights issue..