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When I read the headline, I thought "that's not too bad, she just thinks they are a bad cultural fit with the company".

Then I read the article and went "ohh, she means THAT kind of energy".

Open secret: "culture fit" sounds more serious, that doesn't mean the evaluation criteria used always is.

It can easily be a smokescreen for, for example, racism (perhaps unintentionally).

Certainly, and it puts the company at risk of a discrimination suit along with the associated fallout when you have arbitrary whim based termination practices like this.

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