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Better.com CEO lays off 900 people on Zoom call: "If you're on this call, you are part of the unlucky group that is being laid off"


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Better.com CEO Vishal Garg announced the mortgage company is laying off about 9% of its workforce on a Zoom webinar Wednesday abruptly informing the more than 900 employees on the call they were being terminated just before the holidays.

 

 

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Better.com CEO Vishal Garg announced the mortgage company is laying off about 9% of its workforce on a Zoom webinar Wednesday abruptly informing the more than 900 employees on the call they were being terminated just before the holidays.

 

Fired people working from home:

 

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Garg cited market efficiency, performance and productivity as the reason behind the firings. Fortune later reported Garg accused the employees of "stealing" from their colleagues and customers by being unproductive and only working two hours a day.

 

Also fired their DEI committee (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion):

 

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Among those fired were the diversity, equity and inclusion recruiting team.

 

Sounds like a great boss and a great company, best wishes for them in the future!

 

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The Daily Beast reported in August that one of Garg's most "loyal lieutenants" received massive perks, such as millions of dollars worth of stock options that could be vested immediately, not comparable to other employees. That person was later placed on administrative leave for bullying.

 

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Oh also he sent this email in 2020 because he hates everyone in the company:

 

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The $4 billion fintech startup is hurtling towards an IPO. But its volatile leader is fighting multiple lawsuits that could complicate his ambitions.

 

 

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“HELLO — WAKE UP BETTER TEAM,

You are TOO DAMN SLOW. You are a bunch of DUMB DOLPHINS and…DUMB DOLPHINS get caught in nets and eaten by sharks. SO STOP IT. STOP IT. STOP IT RIGHT NOW. YOU ARE EMBARRASSING ME.”

 

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The company I worked for last year sent an email one Thursday morning in April saying that they were laying people off and the people being cut would know by afternoon.  No one did any work that morning and they sent an email out at like 11:00 saying if you didn't get notification yet then you were fine and to please get back to work.  The cuts weren't at all performance based either, the decisions on who to cut were made at the executive level.  Then a month later everyone else was told they'd take a 5% pay cut the rest of the year, but we got good news in September that they had their best sales month ever, but full pay didn't come back until January anyway.  Needless to say "the great resignation" of 2021 hit them pretty hard, my exit interview was a survey link.

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