Do these employees have a right to apologies from NPM and help finding a new job? No.<p>Should these employees expect to be treated better by a company that claims that "Compassion is our strategy"? Yes, absolutely.<p>Focusing on specifics of what they are asking for is the wrong approach here, it's a simple question: was this handled with "compassion"? I think between lack of acknowledgement from management, lack of understanding that vesting options can be an important part of compensation now being denied to employees, lack of help finding a job in the extensive social networks of the founding team, and laying off so soon after hiring some, all contributes to this.
It always sucks to get laid off, not disregarding it. I empathize with the employees who weren’t expecting it.<p>I can only speak for myself but the minute I get a job, I know that I can be terminated at any moment for whatever reason. There should never be any shock. Even if you move across the world for a position, it could happen on your first day. You have to always be prepared if you’re gonna be working under someone else’s roof.
Does anyone have more info? It looks like this person doesn’t work for NPM.<p>EDIT: see this tweet 9h ago <a href="https://twitter.com/maybekatz/status/1110766133660041216?s=21" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/maybekatz/status/1110766133660041216?s=2...</a><p>And here’s the story as told by another employee <a href="https://twitter.com/neverett/status/1110626264841359360?s=21" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/neverett/status/1110626264841359360?s=21</a>
It is mentioned that employees have not been helped to find new jobs. But there may be reason for that.<p>It is sometimes the case that for a particularly high-performing, excellent employee, a manager or senior exec might call around to a few friends and see if they have openings. And of course, provide a reference for others. But that is not true of laying off a whole division. No team is comprised of 100%, or even 25%, top performers (usually). A manager shouldn't be expected to put his professional reputation on the line for every person in his division, even if they aren't the best (but good enough to keep on), just because of a lay-off.
Why would someone who wants you out help you find another job?<p>What kind of mess is in the head of a person that thinks everyone owes them a helping hand?
We changed the URL from <a href="https://twitter.com/kf/status/1110703814909165568" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/kf/status/1110703814909165568</a>, which is now deleted, to <a href="https://twitter.com/neverett/status/1110626264841359360" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/neverett/status/1110626264841359360</a>, a contemporaneous thread on the same topic, which I believe was linked to from the original one.
> It's not your employers job to find you a position<p>I find myself agreeing with this more than the initial tweets even as I sit here having recently quit my last job without something lined up quite yet.
I need a lot more context here.<p>What's Npm? All that means to me is "NodeJS Package Manager", but surely there isn't an entire company associated with that, right?<p>Secondly, what did the severance package look like? Re-employment assistance is just one component to a severance package; if it includes several months' pay then it's still a comparatively good one even lacking this assistance.<p>EDIT: So apparently NodeJS Package Manager is a company?! News to me.
Honestly until today I didn't even realize NPM was a company. I thought it was managed in the same vein as PyPI or rubygems.org<p>... why isn't it?