{"id":943674,"date":"2025-07-04T07:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T02:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=943674"},"modified":"2025-07-04T07:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T02:27:50","slug":"they-sent-me-a-chatgpt-email-laid-off-bytedance-employee-calls-out-companys-toxic-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/04\/they-sent-me-a-chatgpt-email-laid-off-bytedance-employee-calls-out-companys-toxic-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They sent me a ChatGPT email,\u2019 laid off ByteDance employee calls out company\u2019s toxic culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is facing backlash from employees impacted by its latest round of layoffs, with one laid-off staffer exposed the toxic culture in the company. \u201cThey sent me a ChatGPT email,\u201d the employee said, expressing shock at the impersonal nature of the layoff notification. The worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to fear of retaliation, said they had worked grueling late hours for global meetings and were frequently assigned last-minute \u201ccritical\u201d projects with no clear strategy or explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is facing backlash from employees impacted by its latest round of layoffs, with one laid-off staffer exposed the toxic culture in the company. \u201cThey sent me a ChatGPT email,\u201d the employee said, expressing shock at the impersonal nature of the layoff notification. The worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to fear of retaliation, said they had worked grueling late hours for global meetings and were frequently assigned last-minute \u201ccritical\u201d projects with no clear strategy or explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}