1.0The Escapisthttps://www.escapistmagazine.comMike Thompson Legacy Authorhttps://www.escapistmagazine.com/author/vansau/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="NRKfPaVZYt"><a href="https://www.escapistmagazine.com/myspace-fires-500-people-by-soulless-xerox/">MySpace Fires 500 People By Soulless Xerox</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.escapistmagazine.com/myspace-fires-500-people-by-soulless-xerox/embed/#?secret=NRKfPaVZYt" width="600" height="338" title="“MySpace Fires 500 People By Soulless Xerox” — The Escapist" data-secret="NRKfPaVZYt" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(c,d){"use strict";var e=!1,o=!1;if(d.querySelector)if(c.addEventListener)e=!0;if(c.wp=c.wp||{},c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage);else if(c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(!t);else if(!(t.secret||t.message||t.value));else if(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret));else{for(var r,s,a,i=d.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=d.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),l=0;l<n.length;l++)n[l].style.display="none";for(l=0;l<i.length;l++)if(r=i[l],e.source!==r.contentWindow);else{if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(s=parseInt(t.value,10)))s=1e3;else if(~~s<200)s=200;r.height=s}if("link"===t.message)if(s=d.createElement("a"),a=d.createElement("a"),s.href=r.getAttribute("src"),a.href=t.value,!o.test(a.protocol));else if(a.host===s.host)if(d.activeElement===r)c.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)c.addEventListener("message",c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),d.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),c.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(o);else{o=!0;for(var e,t,r,s=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),a=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),i=d.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),n=0;n<i.length;n++){if(!(r=(t=i[n]).getAttribute("data-secret")))r=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),t.src+="#?secret="+r,t.setAttribute("data-secret",r);if(s||a)(e=t.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),t.parentNode.replaceChild(e,t);t.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:r},"*")}}}}(window,document); </script> CEOs take note. This is how you should NOT handle corporate layoffs. MySpace’s slow and painful death-by-inches is continuing to thrash along in embarrassingly public ways. Earlier this week, the company laid off 500 employees (roughly 47% of its workforce) after it launched a massive re-design in order to become profitable. While moves like this often result in a fair amount of bitterness, doing so with a Xerox’d form letter just makes things even more insulting. TechCrunch recently received an email from one of the former MySpace workers that was full of some fairly damning accusations, apparently including claims that […]http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/42/42805.png