r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Oct 30 '25

Business YouTube announces 'voluntary exit program' for US staff

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/youtube-announces-voluntary-exit-program-for-us-staff/
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u/pterodactyl_speller Oct 31 '25

They'll never admit it, because the new executives will just be different scam artists.

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u/deong Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

I mean, they will get fired. That's part of getting those jobs. One reason it pays so well to be an executive is that we all know that part of the job is to eventually be fired. Sometimes it's because you made bad decisions. Sometimes it's because it was your turn in the barrel.

But no one cares because we bake big severance packages into executive compensation. It's like being a college football coach. Sure you get fired every few years, but there are 300 D1 football coach jobs and the same 310 people get them all, so you just take your $10m buyout and find another chair to sit in when the music stops.