“... was out of step with the company’s stated values.”
No company’s “stated values” mean anything.
Always remember that when you are hired by a company.
I worked for a Koch company.
You can say many things about the Koch’s, but they are VERY open about what they believe in, and what their values are. They were followed, sometimes to the detriment.
But that is the only company in 20 plus years where the values were anything but a poster in the break room.
True, but at least GE makes an effort.
Unlike the evil foods company, big bad GE, that leftists love to bash, does far better.
I was in the first layoff the GE aircraft engine plant I worked in had ever had, in the 1990s.
GE bent over backwards, keeping us on with busy work for as long as they could.
Then many weeks warning, counseling sessions on how to interview, help with writing resumes, help finding jobs, you name it, GE did it.
The layoff was strictly by the numbers, your hire date.
There is no way GE could have done more for us.
Re-hiring was also strictly by the same numbers, as fair as possible.