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HuffPost employees, after a year of working through a pandemic that isn't over, were invited to a meeting today with the password "spring is here," where they were told 47 of them would be laid off. They would only know if they still had a job if they didn't receive an email by 1

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That is cruel and psychotic and ridiculous.

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Unreal.

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This seems awfully cruel.

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Warrior Astrology

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Knowing Ariana huffington’s roots, this doesn’t really surprise me.

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BuzzFeed bought HuffPost. This is pretty much guaranteed to be coming straight from Jonah Peretti

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There are more than 47 people that write there?

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Someone had to research the phony medical advice.

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Shouldn’t the code have been, “winter is coming”?

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This exact thing happened while I was working at The Dallas Morning News. I can't think of a more cruel way to break the news than "watch your email to see if you're called to HR."

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Been on the receiving end of exactly that. Everyone else watches you go & hopes you were the last on the list 😢

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