The ‘Crying CEO’ Says He Loves His Employees — Even Those He Laid Off
On a LinkedIn post Wallake said that laying off his employees was the “hardest thing” he has ever had to do.
Source: Braden Wallake/LinkedIn
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There’s a new way to cope with the guilt of firing your employees -- a LinkedIn post letting your network know you feel miserable about it.
Braden Wallake, the chief executive officer of a Columbus, Ohio-based marketing agency called HyperSocial, wrote a guilt-filled post Tuesday about laying off employees that concluded with a teary-eyed selfie. After the post went viral, he declared himself “the crying CEO.”