The 'Crying CEO' Says He Loves His Employees - Even Those He Laid Off

CEO , Employees , LinkedIn

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.”

Wallake's original post has more than 30,000 likes and 5,300 comments. In it, he said he loves all of his employees, acknowledged how his own decisions led to the dismissals and said it was the “hardest thing” he has ever had to do.

“Days like today, I wish I was a business owner that was only money driven and didn't care about who he hurt along the way” wrote Wallake, 32. “But I'm not.”

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