Jennifer Tejada, the CEO of PagerDuty, received backlash after referencing a quote from a Martin Luther King Jr. sermon while announcing layoffs.
People criticized Tejada across social media, saying she used King’s quote out of context. On Friday, Tejada apologized in an email to her staff at PagerDuty, a San Francisco-based cloud-computing company.. “The quote I included from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was inappropriate and insensitive. I should have been more upfront about the layoffs in the email, more thoughtful about my tone, and more concise. I am sorry.”when major technology companies are gutting their staffs.
“It is my expectation that we show all of our colleagues the grace, respect, and dignity they have earned,” Tejada wrote in her original email. “As someone who has worked in this industry for decades, I have experienced this before and it is never easy, and I also know from experience that while we may not work together in the short term, our relationships and this community live beyond our tenure at PagerDuty.
in 1959. The late civil rights leader’s quote is often interpreted to mean that people display their true character amid hardship.
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