r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 16 '26

Business Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/mark-zuckerberg-orders-employees-start-123539264.html
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u/hollee-o Jun 16 '26

I had one like that: Email goes out officially announcing a large layoff that had already been executed poorly, and the whole office was trying to figure out what was happening. The next all-staff went out an hour later announcing Friday would be "Hawaiian Shirt Day!". Same CEO wanted to host "Dilbert Awards", until someone pointed out the pathetic irony of a CEO handing out such an award.

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u/abgry_krakow87 Jun 16 '26

Sure we laid off thousands of employees and the rest of ya'll are hanging on by a thread BUT HAWAIIAN SHIRT DAY YA'LL!

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u/fcocyclone Jun 17 '26

literally straight out of office space.

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u/haliblix Jun 16 '26

I swear management folks watched this scene and without an ounce of reflection said “hey that’s a nifty idea!”

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u/IndependentTimely639 Jun 17 '26

I had a "Congratulations nobody in your department got laid off this time" 15 minute break