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This reminds me of an experience with a former employer. Company A, heavy users of Salesforce, was acquired by company B, which was married to M$ Dynamics. On
by ineptech 4y ago
This reminds me of an experience with a former employer. Company A, heavy users of Salesforce, was acquired by company B, which was married to M$ Dynamics. On the day of the announcement, one of the bullet points was something like, "the new division will transition from Salesforce to Dynamics over the next three years."
I think it took three weeks for all of the Salesforce admins and most of the devs to quit. They had to hire a small army of contractors just to keep things running, and last I heard, the parent company ended up switching to Salesforce anyway. All they had to do was say, "We don't know what we're going to do yet," which besides saving them tons of money would've been literally true as well.
- _jal 4y agoI've seen that sort of strategic ambiguity used to try to have your people and your decision too. It may work for a little while, but generally you're going to be left with the people who are young, naive or trapped. One of the problems with hiring smart people is that they don't stop being smart when you're trying to manipulate them.
- ChuckMcM 4y agoThis is a super important point that almost no executive management ever internalizes; The people doing the work are smarter than you and trying to manipulate them is alienate them. It is perhaps an ego thing but still. Pretty sad.
- ineptech 4y agoThe solution I was suggesting was not to play dumb, but to notice the looming problem and try to address it. I don't know what the right plan would've been, but I suspect it would've ended with, "...generous severance package for those that stay and help us through the transition."
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- numlock86 4y ago> M$ What?
- paulryanrogers 4y agoMicrosoft
- AdamH12113 4y agoIt's a 90s thing.
- ineptech 4y agoYep, force of habit.
- numlock86 4y agoA 90s thing? More like 10s? If anything it's 13 year olds I see doing that. Well, mentally at least.
- AdamH12113 4y agoWell, I was 13 in the 90s, so that part also applies. :-) Microsoft had a stranglehold on the computing industry in the 1990s due to its near-monopoly on PC operating systems. Their software was also much lower quality, which led to widespread hatred of the company among computer geeks. Hence the derisive dollar sign. 2010s Microsoft was a shadow of its former self, so I think any usage of the dollar sign then is more of a holdover from the 90s than anything else.
- quickthrower2 4y agoA string variable named M in QBasic, I imagine.
- icedchai 4y agoNo one in their right mind would move from Salesforce to Dynamics. Both the UI and APIs pale in comparison to Salesforce.