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Who says **** like this about a female that works for him? It’s beyond creepy and gross.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump on Karoline Leavitt: "That beautiful face and those lips that don't stop like a little machine gun"
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A bit late in true ADHD fashion, but we have baby news! Jessica & @TheeDoctorB care about their newborn’s privacy, so no name reveal or photos of her face. They still wanted to share a peek from Baby’s first pediatrician visit! Jessica couldn’t look away on the ride home! #NewMom

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We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.
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Google has been testing removing the cache link for a while now. Seems like they might have finally removed it for good. But, you can still access the cached version of a url via a cache command. Barry covers that in his post. BTW, Google is also testing removing the number of urls indexed via a site query (but that's still in testing IMO). Not like a site query is great for that, but it's something. :)
Barry Schwartz@rustybrick
Google seems to have dropped the cache link from the search result snippets (I no longer see it) but you can still access the cache, here is how seroundtable.com/google-search-… hat tip Frank Sandtmann
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@eastdakota @Austen horsesh*T - i know brittany professionally and she is nothing but The Best
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We fired ~40 sales people out of over 1,500 in our go to market org. That’s a normal quarter. When we’re doing performance management right, we can often tell within 3 months or less of a sales hire, even during the holidays, whether they’re going to be successful or not. Sadly, we don’t hire perfectly. We try to fire perfectly. In this case, clearly we were far from perfect. The video is painful for me to watch. Managers should always be involved. HR should be involved, but it shouldn’t be outsourced to them, No employee should ever actually be surprised they weren’t performing. We don’t always get it right. And sometimes under performing employees don’t actually listen to the feedback they’ve gotten before we let them go. Importantly, just because we fire someone doesn’t mean they’re a bad employee. It doesn’t mean won’t be really, really great somewhere else. Chris Paul was a bad fit for the Suns, but he’s undoubtedly a great basketball player. And, in fact, we think the right thing to do is get people we know are unlikely to succeed off the team as quickly as possible so they can find the right place for them. We definitely weren’t anywhere close to perfect in this case. But any healthy org needs to get the people who aren’t performing off. That wasn’t the mistake here. The mistake was not being more kind and humane as we did. And that’s something @zatlyn and I are focused on improving going forward.
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Alright some very quick (assumptive) analysis:
1. Looks like the company was nuking most of the sales org. If they’re keeping <25% of an org the calculus isn’t, “Are they doing a good job and have we given them a fair shake?” It’s more, “Who are the top performers we need to keep? We have to get rid of everyone else.” Totally unfair to her. It may have been nigh impossible to reach the performance bar required to stay. But hard to say with no info.
2. The fact that it’s two HR people who don’t know her is either a big mistep or it implies her manager (and possibly her manager’s manager etc.) are gone too.
3. The HR team was probably given a big list of names they needed to tell, and probably had no clue as to why the decision making led to some staying and some going. That’s not a fun position to be in, but could be the only alternative to a mass firing in a giant Zoom meeting depending on how much of management was also fired.
4. It’s interesting that they’re so clear it’s performance-based and not a layoff. That’s not an accident. Could be to avoid regulations around the WARN act, or as justification to give zero severance. Usually in this call they go over the high level of that stuff, but this one took a turn.
Sad across the board.
SMB Attorney@SMB_Attorney
Getting fired is tough, but it’s important to handle it with dignity. Firing someone is also hard, requiring compassion and respect. Total disaster on both sides here.
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@Decaturish real estate - or education - what business are they in? 25 million?
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Decide DeKalb helps The GLOBE Academy secure $25 million bond; writers and actors strike felt locally decaturish.com/2023/07/decide…
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Holy! Water main break shooting 30 or so feet in the air P'tree Blvd./sb near Chamblee Dunwoody. Right lane blocked. Delays. Take Peachtree Rd. #ATLtraffic

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