Stripe Unintentionally Sends Duck Picture to Employees in Layoff E-mail

• Stripe by chance despatched a picture of a cartoon duck to some workers in a layoff e-mail, BI has discovered.
• The corporate additionally despatched some laid off workers an incorrect termination date.
• Stripe laid off 300 folks on Monday, impacting principally product, engineering, and operations.

Funds software program firm Stripe by chance emailed a picture of a cartoon duck to some staff when notifying them that they’d been laid off, Enterprise Insider has discovered.

The corporate laid off 300 workers on Monday, equal to about 3.5% of its workforce. These roles had been primarily in product, engineering, and operations, in response to a leaked memo obtained by BI.

The picture, which was connected as a PDF, confirmed a yellow duck with brown feathers on its wing and accompanying textual content that claims, “US-Non-California Duck.”

The corporate additionally despatched impacted workers an incorrect date for the date of termination in an e-mail.

A Stripe spokesperson confirmed the duck picture and incorrect dates had been despatched in error and pointed BI to a follow-up e-mail from McIntosh.

McIntosh wrote, “I additionally need to observe that some impacted Stripes acquired a notification error to their private e-mail accounts Monday night PT.”

He added, “I apologize for the error and any confusion it induced. Corrected and full notifications have since been despatched to all impacted Stripes.”

One worker requested if others had acquired the duck picture in an inner Stripe group on the app Blind, seen by BI.

One particular person responded that they’d and that it was one other “indication the comms to these laid off had been flubbed fully.”

One other worker, seemingly joking, wrote, “Surprise if there is a california duck,” whereas a special worker wrote, “Fast, make a slack emoji out of the duck.”

Stripe, which supplies fee software program to thousands and thousands of companies, has made earlier rounds of layoffs in recent times.

A publicly shared letter from Stripe CEO Patrick Collison explaining greater than 1,000 job cuts in 2022 gained reward from some corners for its candidness.

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