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> Some employees may have suffered undue emotional distress due to the excess uncertainty.

That is absolutely hilarious but also sad that people in 2022 are so fragile that they would try to claim such nonsense in all seriousness.




Sorry it's hilarious that people would be emotionally distressed about their jobs potentially disappearing? Curious to know what year this new "fragility" kicked in, in your eyes.


>…distressed about jobs potentially disappearing

Anyone’s job can “potentially disappear” at any time and often without public notice and drama. I know former colleagues who showed up to work on a Monday morning at a company that had been operating profitably for decades to find the office shuttered and the company out of business just because the real estate it owned was more valuable to the owners than the company itself. No one at any level below the ownership group and CEO/CFO had any idea it was coming. Just wake up like another day and boom—a thousand people out of work.

If Twitter folk were worried to the point of health implications they have had six months to make a change. I know folks that would have given precious body parts for that kind of notice.

>what year this new “fragility” kicked in…

Apparently some year prior to 2022.


Ah the ol’ “this isn’t bad because there are things that are worse” argument. I suspect you don’t actually believe that, given the absurdity of its final conclusions, so I’m going to conclude here. Have a good rest of your week!


I'll withhold judgment until my livelihood is under the thumb of a capricious billionaire who has expressed disdain for my work.


It’s a damn shame that you can’t just up and quit a job in America in 2022…oh wait, you can.

Never mind.




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