{"id":985869,"date":"2026-01-16T12:32:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985869"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:51:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:21:37","slug":"layoff-email-was-bad-linkedin-was-worse-employee-slams-vps-sad-post-says-its-just-for-collecting-likes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/layoff-email-was-bad-linkedin-was-worse-employee-slams-vps-sad-post-says-its-just-for-collecting-likes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Layoff email was bad, LinkedIn was worse&#8217;: Employee slams VP\u2019s &#8216;sad&#8217; post, says it&#8217;s just for collecting likes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A social media post is making its rounds after an employee claimed having a &#8220;disgusting&#8221; experience following a layoff. While the initial email was a shock, the real blow came from seeing leadership post &#8220;sad&#8221; updates with heart emojis on LinkedIn just minutes later. The employee argued that these public displays of grief by executives are often a hollow branding exercise that ignores the immediate, life-altering stress faced by those actually losing their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe layoff email was bad. LinkedIn was worse,\u201d an employee wrote on Blind, a platform where professionals anonymously converse about their work-life challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A social media post is making its rounds after an employee claimed having a &#8220;disgusting&#8221; experience following a layoff. While the initial email was a shock, the real blow came from seeing leadership post &#8220;sad&#8221; updates with heart emojis on LinkedIn just minutes later. The employee argued that these public displays of grief by executives are often a hollow branding exercise that ignores the immediate, life-altering stress faced by those actually losing their jobs. \u201cThe layoff email was bad. LinkedIn was worse,\u201d an employee wrote on Blind, a platform where professionals anonymously converse about their work-life challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985869","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}