A cute cartoon duck can be the bearer of bad news. Stripe is laying off 300 people, or about 3.5% of its global workforce — and in emails to some terminated employees, the company accidentally ...

While staff at Intel had their coffee removed before the notice of redundancies hit desks, no other employees as far as we know have reported cartoons in their lay-off process. Employees reported ...

Usually, these notices are pretty standard—heavy on the legal wording, and light on the cartoons. But that wasn't the case at Stripe, a payments software company that laid off 300 employees on ...

A bizarre misstep of sending a cartoon to laid off employees is a great way to add insult to injury. In 2022, when Stripe announced it was laying off 14% of its workforce, Patrick and John ...