"you've mistaken my kindness for weakness"<p>Wow people outside the military say this unironically? The military has some shit bags who really do think this way (taking advantage of people giving them a second chance), and while people say it and I never liked hearing it, to think a CEO has the nerve to say that like some paranoid despot is pretty out of touch.<p>This dude sounds like he started listening to some other, much more successful, much more insane CEO's podcast during the pandemic and lost his mind in turn. That article read like the Facebook post of a terminally online friend who's having a mental break
"Clearlink, like many others, has struggled to adapt to a teetering economy and recently undergone a round of layoffs. To jumpstart the firm, Clarke sent a company-wide email on April 3 saying that people who live within 50 miles of the company’s new headquarters in Draper, Utah, would be required to come into the office four days a week, with limited exceptions, starting April 17. The decision, he wrote, was made to improve the company’s performance amid a “challenging” environment."<p>That's a lot of words to say, "the beatings will continue until morale improves"
What likely happened: the CEO got tired of coming to an empty office and not having underlings scurry around as his excellence powerwalks through the stunning estate of Clearlink Inc.<p>The whole thing reads like a script for an unreleased episode of The Office.
Wow, the lawsuits almost file themselves. "Ms. Jones was discriminated against because she was the primary caregiver to two children. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'd like to play you a video of a recent town hall speech..."<p>From the quotes in TFA, I could easily believe that Mr. Clarke had had a little too much to drink with lunch.
If anyone is confused as to how it might happen, family members who used to care for the dog might have been forced to give up the dog, so if not in care of the worker it's only option is to be sold or given up got adoption. A big thing since in my opinion animals are family members no less.
"Utah-based digital marketing company" declares "We hate dogs" as publically as they could manage. Difficult to believe really. Someone running a marketing company hasn't clocked that how they present their firm affects their success in the market. Further, they think "I don't really get this marketing thing" is a good thing to shout to the internet. Shouldn't be survivable.
“I challenge any of you to outwork me, but you won’t,”<p>Yeah, sure. Just give them your salary and leave the company, then see.
Workers are often fed up with their jobs also because of manipulative alpha-holes like that one.
>...to explain the reasoning behind the changes, Clarke unleashed on his employees, saying he had deduced that some 30 employees had not opened their laptops for a month (the quiet quitters)...<p>So...just fire those 30 people for not delivering?