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Does this mean that the staff laid off were doing a good job or a bad job? Building a product that falls over within hours of reducing the head count doesnt su
by shapefrog 4y ago
Does this mean that the staff laid off were doing a good job or a bad job?
Building a product that falls over within hours of reducing the head count doesnt suggest they did a very good job, but they were keeping a fragile system up all this time ...
- bbertelsen 4y agoAlternative hypothesis: someone had a backdoor and didn't take their layoff well.
- shapefrog 4y agoAlternative alternative hypothesis: someone got laid off and told to work out the rest of their shift, and used their frontdoor access to take a massive dump in the boses desk drawer.
- Axsuul 4y agoThis is just pure speculation - we don't actually know why it went down.
- BizarreByte 4y agoIt could be literally anything from a failed health check and failed auto mitigation, to a routine failure that no one actually knows who to contact about anymore, to sabotage by a laid off employee. It’s not really worth speculating about fired employees performance, but there’s probably internal chaos after yet another layoff round.
- mfer 4y agoThat depends on the reason. For example, did someone cripple a system on their way out the door to cause the outage? Is this some retaliation? If so it doesn't speak to the quality of what was built. I only use this example to speak to the wide array of reasons that could cause this. Without knowing the reason it's hard to assess anything.
- iforgotpassword 4y agoThey were good at making themselves indispensable, until they were dispensed.
- marcosdumay 4y agoAny large service consisting only of integrating 3rd party providers with 3rd party consumers is fragile.