獲悉，美國團購網站Groupon于3月1日宣布，該公司創始人安德魯·梅森(Andrew Mason)將不再擔任CEO。隨后，安德魯·梅森在一篇致員工的公開信中坦承，自己是被董事會開除的，公開信語言十分詼諧風趣。如果你碰巧丟掉了工作，感覺人生是多么的凄慘，你可以看看這位CEO如何笑看失業的。
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason's Open Letter About Firing
下面是Groupon公司創始人安德魯·梅森(Andrew Mason)致員工的公開信中英對照：
People of Groupon,
Groupon員工，
After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today. If you're wondering why... you haven't been paying attention. From controversial metrics in our S1 to our material weakness to two quarters of missing our own expectations and a stock price that's hovering around one quarter of our listing price, the events of the last year and a half speak for themselves. As CEO, I am accountable.
在擔任Groupon CEO渡過了4年半緊張、精彩的生活之后，我決定，是時候花更多時間在家庭上了。開玩笑的…我今天被開除了。如果你還在納悶為什么…那么說明你根本沒有關注過公司的新聞。從S1文件中備受爭議的統計方法，到財務報表中的重大漏洞，從連續兩個季度業績低于預期，再到股價跌至發行價的四分之一，對于過去一年半發生的各種事件，作為CEO，我難辭其咎。
You are doing amazing things at Groupon, and you deserve the outside world to give you a second chance. I'm getting in the way of that. A fresh CEO earns you that chance. The board is aligned behind the strategy we've shared over the last few months, and I've never seen you working together more effectively as a global company - it's time to give Groupon a relief valve from the public noise.
你們在Groupon的工作非常棒，你們理應獲得外界給你們的第二次機會。而我是這種機會的阻礙。一個新的CEO將給你們重新開始的機會。在過去幾個月間，董事會在幕后為公司做出了一系列決策，而你們的工作效率也比以往更高。
For those who are concerned about me, please don't be - I love Groupon, and I'm terribly proud of what we've created. I'm OK with having failed at this part of the journey. If Groupon was Battletoads, it would be like I made it all the way to the Terra Tubes without dying on my first ever play through. I am so lucky to have had the opportunity to take the company this far with all of you. I'll now take some time to decompress (FYI I'm looking for a good fat camp to lose my Groupon 40, if anyone has a suggestion), and then maybe I'll figure out how to channel this experience into something productive.
對于那些擔心我的人，請不必擔心。我熱愛Groupon，我對于我們所創造的一切都感到無比的驕傲。在這段漫長的旅途中，我倒在了中途，我愿意接受這種失敗。如果Groupon是一款《忍者蛙》游戲，那么我已經在沒有死一條命的情況下，一路打到了Terra Tubes階段了。我很榮幸有機會能夠帶領公司走到今天。我將休假一段時間以減輕壓力，然后思考如何把這種經驗運用到更有意義的事情上。
If there's one piece of wisdom that this simple pilgrim would like to impart upon you: have the courage to start with the customer. My biggest regrets are the moments that I let a lack of data override my intuition on what's best for our customers. This leadership change gives you some breathing room to break bad habits and deliver sustainable customer happiness - don't waste the opportunity!
我有一條建議希望與大家分享：要有勇氣從顧客的角度出發。我最后悔的事情之一，就是我由于數據的不足，而忽視了關于如何讓消費者最滿意的直覺。這次管理層變動將給你們一些喘息的空間，你們可以趁機改掉壞習慣，為消費者提供持久的滿意——不要浪費這個機會!
I will miss you terribly.
我會非常想念你們的。
Love, Andrew
愛你們的，安德魯

事件背景：
美國團購網站Groupon今天宣布，該公司創始人安德魯·梅森(Andrew Mason)將不再擔任CEO。隨后，安德魯·梅森在一篇致員工的公開信中坦承，自己是被董事會開除的，公開信語言十分詼諧風趣。在宣布管理層變動的早些時候，Groupon公布了令人失望的第四季度財報，其中包括令人意外的虧損和表現平平的營收。此前，已經有多個股東提出動議，要求Groupon公司開除梅森。上一次是在2012年12月初，而當該公司決定堅持讓梅森擔任CEO時，其股價下跌了兩位數。據官方消息稱，Groupon高管埃里克·列夫科夫斯基(Eric Lefkofsky)和泰德·列奧西斯(Ted Leonsis)將臨時接替梅森的CEO工作。Groupon董事會已經在著手尋找新任CEO。