<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BoxFour</author><text>I think this is actually a more astute analogy than you realize, because the only reason a coach would be asked that question in the first place is because there are questions about the player’s ability to perform—-as the sibling comment here notes.&lt;p&gt;Similarly, you don’t ask tech companies if they’re doing layoffs when the sector is booming.&lt;p&gt;That the question is even asked probably shoots the probability of benching&amp;#x2F;layoffs up to some ridiculous amount to begin with.</text><parent_chain><item><author>curiousllama</author><text>In sports this is the &amp;quot;absolute vote of confidence&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Once a coach has to say &amp;quot;[player] has my absolute confidence in their success,&amp;quot; you know the player is ~2 weeks from being benched.</text></item><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>In my observation absolute statements about no layoffs are a strong indication of future layoffs in this economy. It&amp;#x27;s impossible to be certain in this economy so giving an absolute statement is basically a lie. Someone who is so brazen about lying to&amp;#x2F;deceiving their employees will have no qualms with doing layoffs. On the other hand someone who uses more careful language even if it costs them in the short term is someone who will have more qualms about layoffs.</text></item><item><author>Rafert</author><text>Things changed quite a bit since this quote from February 17:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “There’s no cuts coming for us,” Harley Finkelstein told The Canadian Press. “We’re in a really good place.”&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;globalnews.ca&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;9494197&amp;#x2F;shopify-outlook-no-layoffs-coming-president&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;globalnews.ca&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;9494197&amp;#x2F;shopify-outlook-no-layoff...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics</title><url>https://news.shopify.com/important-team-and-business-changes</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I agree, but I think the sports analogy is even more on point when it comes to sports management giving a vote of confidence to coaches.   You only ever have to say anything like that when there are questions.&lt;p&gt;Coaches and players... they talk about each other a lot.</text><parent_chain><item><author>curiousllama</author><text>In sports this is the &amp;quot;absolute vote of confidence&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Once a coach has to say &amp;quot;[player] has my absolute confidence in their success,&amp;quot; you know the player is ~2 weeks from being benched.</text></item><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>In my observation absolute statements about no layoffs are a strong indication of future layoffs in this economy. It&amp;#x27;s impossible to be certain in this economy so giving an absolute statement is basically a lie. Someone who is so brazen about lying to&amp;#x2F;deceiving their employees will have no qualms with doing layoffs. On the other hand someone who uses more careful language even if it costs them in the short term is someone who will have more qualms about layoffs.</text></item><item><author>Rafert</author><text>Things changed quite a bit since this quote from February 17:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “There’s no cuts coming for us,” Harley Finkelstein told The Canadian Press. “We’re in a really good place.”&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;globalnews.ca&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;9494197&amp;#x2F;shopify-outlook-no-layoffs-coming-president&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;globalnews.ca&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;9494197&amp;#x2F;shopify-outlook-no-layoff...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics</title><url>https://news.shopify.com/important-team-and-business-changes</url></story>