San Francisco, January 30: US cloud computing company PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada has faced backlash after quoting Martin Luther King Jr in a layoff email to employees in which she announced the job cut of about 7 % of its workforce worldwide, the vast majority of which are in North America.
According to CBS News, at the end of the ad, she said the moment reminded her of the Martin Luther King Jr. quote that “the ultimate measure of a (leader) is not where (they) stand in times of comfort and convenience, but where (they) stand in times of challenge and controversy.” A backlash emerged on social media, with people calling the email “tone-deaf” and “disgusting” . Employment News: Physics Wallah will hire 2,500 employees across all verticals by March 2023.
Tom Gara, head of technology communications at Meta, wrote in a tweet: “All-time classic bad layoff announcement: PagerDuty CEO starts with ‘Hi Dutonians’, takes 370 words to get to part on dismissals, continues for another *1250 words*, and ends with “I remember at times like this, something Martin Luther King said…”. Zachary Levi faces backlash for anti-Vax tweet, Shazam! The actor says he ‘Hardcore agrees’ that Pfizer is a real danger.
However, in an updated note by PagerDuty, the CEO apologized for the way she communicated in the layoff email. “The quote I included from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was inappropriate and insensitive. I should have been more candid about the dismissals in the email, more thoughtful in my tone, and more concise. I’m sorry “, Tejada said in a blog post.
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