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hat’s worse than being laid off? Maybe being laid off with an image of a du
ck?Payments company Stripe recently announced a 300-person workforce reduction, Business Insider reported. The emails informing affected employees included, in addition to the news, a PDF with an image of an animated duck. Some emails also included incorrect termination dates. The misstep is particularly notable, as it comes less than three years after the company was lauded for its approach to layof
fs.A Stripe spokesperson declined to comment, but did direct HR Brew to chief people officer Rob McIntosh’s follow-up email to employees, in which he said,