Der CEO von Pinterest tadelt und entlässt „obstruktive“ Mitarbeiter, die ein Tool zur Nachverfolgung von Entlassungen entwickelt haben

    https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/03/pinterest-ceo-puts-staffers-on-blast-who-created-tool-to-track-layoffs.html

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    1. Asleep_Macaron_5153 on

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      # Pinterest CEO rebukes, fires ‘obstructionist’ employees who created tool to track layoffs

      >Published Tue, Feb 3 20268:23 PM ESTUpdated 42 Min Ago

      >[Annie Palmer](https://www.cnbc.com/annie-palmer/)%5Bu/in/annierpalmer/%5D(https://linkedin.com/in/annierpalmer/)

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      >Key Points

      >Pinterest CEO Bill Ready lashed out at staffers who created an internal tool to track layoffs at the company, and fired those involved.

      >The company announced last week it would lay off less than 15% of its workforce and cut back on office space as part of a broader restructuring.

      >Several Pinterest engineers created an internal software tool to try and quantify the layoffs.
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      What a butthole-face wanker.

    2. compassrosette on

      Pinterest has been a dead app for a while. Nowadays it 40% ads, 50% AI, and 10% 5 min crafts.

    3. DoubtHot6072 on

      In the early 2000s we had a big round of layoffs. One enterprising person captured the LDAP tree and then polled it every 5 minutes and looked for new deactivated accounts. He then dumped these into a simple HTML file that we all reloaded every so often. Great and simple tool. This was pre Slack!

    4. Dolo_Hitch89 on

      Oh yes, I’m sure he’s super worried about his former employees privacy. I suspect it keeps him up at night.

    5. Since Reddit filters have been doing overtime lately, let me just say…

      It’s time for player 2 to enter the game

    6. ShanghaiBebop on

      From what I hear, it was just literally a bash script that crawled through the „public“ company org chart?

      I guess you can call it a „tool“, in the most crude term.

    7. I have never used Pinterest and I will not ever be using it. Whatever it is.

    8. thisismycoolname1 on

      If you work at bigger, established company in a conservative industry it comes with the territory. Not shocked you don’t like or agree with it

    9. Fit-Nectarine5047 on

      The ads are honestly so annoying- they’re doing the MOST and now the content is repetitive 🙄

    10. INFECTEDWIFISIGNAL on

      I feel bad for the people who will lose their jobs, but I truly don’t care about Pinterest in the slightest.

    11. Can neither confirm nor deny that I work here. Can neither confirm nor deny I once passed Bill on the stairs and was immediately eclipsed with all-consuming darkness.

    12. MoonOut_StarsInvite on

      Lol. If you read an article, you can tell that all they were doing was filling out a spreadsheet of names on someone’s Google Drive. “Created a tool” My ass. 😂 What a bunch of shit. Everyone does this

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