Stripe, the Bay Area’s second most valuable startup, emailed a layoff notice to 300 workers - along with a cartoon picture.

The payment processing platform reportedly sent an image of a cartoon duck in emails to employees notifying them of their termination.

( NewsNation) — Payment company Stripe accidentally sent an image of a cartoon duck to some of the employees who were being ...

(NewsNation) — Payment company Stripe accidentally sent an image of a cartoon duck to some of the employees who were being ...

While staff at Intel had their coffee removed before the notice of redundancies hit desks, no other employees as far as we know have reported cartoons in their lay-off process. Verifying Get the ...

A cute cartoon duck can be the bearer of bad news. Stripe is laying off 300 people, or about 3.5% of its global workforce — ...

A cute cartoon duck can be the bearer of bad news. Stripe is laying off 300 people, or about 3.5% of its global workforce — and in emails to some terminated employees, the company accidentally sent an ...

The error, confirmed by a Stripe spokesperson, occurred during the company’s internal process of notifying impacted employees ...

Stripe laid off 300 employees, equivalent to around 3.5% of its workforce, on Monday, with most of the roles in the product, engineering, and operations departments.