Acme Tool Co. still calls layoffs “reorganizations.” How lame. See how cool companies do it–compare two Google announcements.

Pay attention to the titles–this is CHANGE, people! Oh boy!

First engineers get changed, then People Operators (see signature) get changed. Shortchanged?

Of the two, I think I prefer the changes to the People Operators. It basically says, you’re fired, it sucks, sorry. The one for the engineers trys to explain it away and it scares me pretty bad when it says “Having offices distributed around the globe […] presented unique challenges. The most difficult of these being to […] provide engineers with significant, meaningful projects.” Meaning? We hired you and we didn’t even have any work for you to do! Man, I missed that gravy boat.