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PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever

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Re: PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever

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Post by toomuchtodo »

tuwtuwtuwtuw wrote: post #19
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #13

Pagerduty is another one of these companies which do not need to exist like Uber and WeWork. No wonder they attract the worst kind of CEOs.

I use it I am pretty happy with its. Of course in theory no company need to exist, but what do you propose people use instead?

It’s sort of surprising this isn’t a product in various cloud providers; there are open source options of course (which cost engineering time), but this could also be as straightforward as a scheduler using existing IAM (user list) and messaging (voice, email, sms, webhooks) interfaces. You’d of course still be able to use this with non cloud infra based on telemetry or other signals to trigger the initial incident.

I’ll mention to our AWS and Azure TAMs.

(Thesis: it’s a supporting product not a whole company)

Re: PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever

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Post by vkou »

jacquesm wrote: post #20
dblohm7 wrote: post #16

This reminds me of an email my CEO sent out in 2008, where he jacked up parking fees at the office "because of the economic downturn." Unfortunately for him, another email he sent out not five minutes before was proudly boasting about record profits.

Nice one. Instant wave of resignations?

Not in that economy.

You do get an instant wave of people not giving two shits about work, though.

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Post by guardiangod »

jeffwask wrote: post #21

I'm really happy for her. Worst CEO has typically been a male dominated category. It's nice see some diversity in lacking empathy and having over inflated egos.

HP "The Witch" Carly Fiorina is still the leader I'd say.

Re: PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever

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Post by jMyles »

Hanlon's Razor and all that, but this reads as intentional to me.

She wanted attention; she got attention. Specifically, she wanted people to know about items that she believes will increase her company's valuation, and she found a way to get attention in that area (the giveaway is that she even boasted about some elements of the company's financials and reports in the very same letter).

She knew damn well that this shameless and odious approach was going to draw eyeballs.

Look, we're all talking about it.

Re: PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever

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Post by 8f2ab37a-ed6c »

jeffwask wrote: post #21

I'm really happy for her. Worst CEO has typically been a male dominated category. It's nice see some diversity in lacking empathy and having over inflated egos.

The Away CEO was apparently a contestant as well: https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/5/20995453/away-luggage-ceo...

I'd be genuinely surprised if both sexes weren't equally represented in terms of sociopathy and narcissism if we ever got to an even 50/50 split.

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