Mortgage lender startup Better.com markets itself as combining technology with a human touch, but that's not how most employees would describe the Zoom call they attended with the company's billionaire CEO last week. In what Forbes calls a "cold one-way video announcement", a"visibly uncomfortable" Vishal Garg let 900 or so workers on the call know that they were laid off, just days after the company with a valuation of $7 billion received a $750 million cash infusion, and right before the holidays. "I come to you with not great news," Garg says in the video now circulating on social media. "The market has changed, as you know, and we have to move with it in order to survive. I do not, do not want to do this. The last time I did it I cried. This time I hope to be stronger." He then announced he was laying off about 15 per cent of the company, saying, "If you are on this call, you are part of the unlucky group. Your employment here is terminated effective immediately."
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Boris Johnson dressed as a police officer to announce his latest War on Drugs. The British Prime Minister is no stranger to raiding the dress-up box, but there was something about this outfit that particularly got people's goat. One was Line of Duty creator and showrunner Jed Mercurio who tweeted: "Thank you for submitting your audition for the next series of #LineofDuty but we're looking for a character with at least one redeeming moral principle and a performance that places even just a scintilla of doubt in the audience's mind that he might not be totally bent."
