After Braden Wallake shared an emotional post on LinkedIn after having to fire some of his employees, the “crying CEO” said he is suddenly fielding numerous requests from people potentially interested in hiring his company.
Braden Wallake’s emotional LinkedIn post about having to lay off employees at his Ohio-based marketing-services company became the talk of social media this past week. But Wallake told MarketWatch he was as surprised as anyone that so many people responded to what he shared.
By contrast, the “crying” post has generated more than 7,500 comments on LinkedIn, to say nothing of thousands of responses on other social-media platforms. Wallake told MarketWatch that he has welcomed the feedback he has gotten, both positive and negative — up to a point. He said the threats he has received, such as one wishing his family got cancer, were “a little unexpected and aggressive.”
“I wanted them to know that they would be taken care of. I sat there and cried,” he said of the response that led to the initial LinkedIn post. He added he also wanted to show the world that while there may be heartless CEOs out there, “there are also a lot of people like myself.”
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