Short Edit: Congratulations YesMadam, You Just Mocked Employees Who Actually Lost Their Jobs
PR stunts are getting more and more tasteless with each passing day. Be it Poonam Pandey’s so-called ‘death’, or Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal’s promise of a job in exchange for Rs 20 lakh, PR strategies to “shock first, make amends later” are now getting a bit out of control.
On Monday, Noida-based beauty services startup YesMadam took the Internet by storm when one of its employees posted a now-revealed-to-be-fake termination letter that claimed it has let go of employees who admitted to dealing with mental pressure in an internal survey.
The post went viral on LinkedIn, inviting comments from netizens bashing the startup for its rather strange way of dealing with layoffs. This morning, the startup has come up with a lame apology letter where it claims that the social media posts were “a ...