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The ‘crying CEO’ says he loves his employees — even those he laid off

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.”