Stripe is laying off 300 people, or about 3.5% of its global workforce, a spokesperson confirmed to CNN — and in emails to some terminated employees on Monday, the company accidentally sent an image of a yellow cartoon duck, adding awkward insult to injury.

But that wasn't the case at Stripe, a payments software company that laid off 300 employees on Monday. Some employees in the various roles affected (product, operations, engineering) were notified by an illustration of a cartoon duck,