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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 CSMastermind »

About three years ago I was put in charge of improving incident response at a rapidly growing company. The previous iteration of that project had rolled out Pagerduty.

I did a comparison between Pagerduty and OpsGenie with the latter being like 1/10 the cost of Pagerduty.

There was no significant feature gap between the two and their sales team couldn't articulate one. At one point their sales guy told me they are positioning themselves as the luxury brand in the incident response market. Which ... yeah I'm cool going generic brand with my incident response tool.

As far as I'm concerned if you're a CFO you should be checking with your CTO or CIO to make sure you're not using Pagerduty. OpsGenie isn't perfect by any means but it's close enough while costings a fraction of what Pagerduty does.

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

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Post by tuwtuwtuwtuw »

hamandcheese wrote: post #80
tuwtuwtuwtuw wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Pagerduty's web UX makes the AWS console look good. I hate it. Example: Go to the homepage and see how many clicks it takes to find out the simle question of "When am I on call next?"

I'm also no fan of the UX but I don't see how your comment answers my question.

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

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Post by ilovetux »

tschellenbach wrote: post #67
kodah wrote: post #32

If you're a line worker businesses, managers, and executives are not your friends. That might seem controversial to some, but to me it's just the pecking order. Executives usually take home large sums from these businesses for very little personal risk. Meanwhile, line workers are the ones that produce the product that earns them large sums in bonuses while sacrificing their time, energy, and often personal well-bein…

That's a very negative take on life. As a startup founder I pay myself less than our team members and work very long hours. (130 person company atm)

Awesome! Keep that going.

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

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Post by gumby »

The quibble I have with this article is that they suggest she was lazy in combining the layoff message with a positive company future performance message (specifically, Serrano wrote, "As if she couldn’t do so in another email...").

Everyone in the company got the email. I can understand the desire to send the message, "this is a terrible thing for the people losing their jobs; we're trying to cushion the blow for them, but with this action we are set up for growth, so you don't need to worry that this is the first of several waves of layoffs". Maybe that should have been a separate note to the survivors. Maybe not.

But this quibble about the article aside, the note is pretty bad.

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

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

dudul wrote: post #78
coldpie wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

What other shape do you suggest for a vehicle meant to escape Earth's gravity and reach space? I know it's not your main point, but every time I hear the "oh look at these nerdy space men playing with their phallic toys!" comment I get curious about the alternative.

> about the alternative

A vulva, of course.

https://whatisfeminism.today/spaceship/

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/vulva-shaped-spaceshi...

https://www.dezeen.com/2022/03/03/vulva-spaceship-design-aim...

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

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Post by dennis_jeeves1 »

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.

Speaking about diversity. We need some diversity among men who collect garbage and plumbers. Why? Because diversity is good. /s
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