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The problem is that this does not happen often enough to be of any relevance so they simply and literally don't care, even if you are a paying customer. It's a
by numlock86 5y ago
The problem is that this does not happen often enough to be of any relevance so they simply and literally don't care, even if you are a paying customer. It's a valid reason not to use any Google services anymore, though. That won't harm Google nor will they change anything (the "no relevance" argument) but at least you get to sleep well at nights knowing you'll still have access to your "life" the next morning.
- nuker 5y ago> It's a valid reason not to use any Google services anymore, though. I recently got bit by needing a google account to join Google Meet video calls. I found out that only paying GSuite accounts can create Meet invites that allow anonymous joins. Free Google accounts cannot do that.
- thijser 5y agoIsn't it just incredibly sad that one of the top 5 companies in our industry has this way of operating? And is it really true that there are not enough engineers and product people reading stories like this and have a bit of that good old "Focus on the user and all else will follow" to make the system more humane?
- plebianRube 5y agoI'm sure they exist, they are just too busy playing the 'stay out of the bottom 10% of automatic layoffs' game.
- vajrabum 5y agoSupposedly, unlike Amazon or others, Google uses stack ranking for promotions and doesn't fire people based on the stack rank.
- nuker 5y ago> good old "Focus on the user Sweet summer child :) Google is not serving users, it is selling adtech to businesses.