Careful who you lay off. You never know what's going to end up on Reddit.
"I was one of the 520 people laid off by Zynga yesterday. What do you wanna know about Zynga?" asks a post on Reddit. Hundreds of questions follow.
People ask about which games are most popular and which are dogs, what percentage of users pay and how much they pay on average, specifics about benefits and even the employee's severance package. The anonymous employee discusses Zynga's ambitions to get into online gambling and why the company hasn't yet done so.
S/he also reveals a severance package of four months' salary plus an additional week for each partial year. "I worked almost two years, so I got 4.5 months paid. Plus insurance is paid on top of that." We can't imagine that the HR department at Zynga is happy about that information being out there.
Sometimes your biggest threat isn't angry customers but your own angry ex-employees. What the employee is doing is clearly inappropriate, but is it actionable? What would you do if you were the boss?
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