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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 dboreham »

CSMastermind wrote: post #81

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 po…

Most of these "services" can be implemented in house with some Python scripts.

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Post by metadat »

jasmer wrote: post #100
KKKKkkkk1 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my book, the unsurpassed champion is Marissa Mayer. She was a product manager at early Google who dated Sergey and was promoted to VP. One of her accomplishments at Google was choosing the palette for the Google logo using a data-driven process. Based off of this success, she was made the CEO of Yahoo!, which she promptly proceeded to drive into the ground.

I suggest this is sexism here - and I'm generally the last person to call that kind of thing out, usually assuming goodwill. Specifically for implying that someone traded sex for a promotion, unless you have some legit data there. Marissa was a very early person at Google, and contributed to a lot of things [1]. Obviously a Wikipedia entry is going to be hagiographic, and some early players are going to be better tha…

Great new (to me) word:

Hagiographic

Definition: Excessively flattering

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

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Post by peter422 »

DoesntMatter22 wrote: post #112
peter422 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes when she took the job the stock was at $15 and sold it for $40. Granted much of the appreciation had nothing to do with Yahoo but I'm sure a worse executive would have messed up the Alibaba situation. She took a dying company, tried a couple of home run ideas which flopped and then effectively returned what value was left to the shareholders. There is no reason to think that Yahoo would have performed any better…

No reason to think it would be better under another CEO? She drove Yahoo into the ground with incredibly useless ideas like a new weather app that made them no money. Basically everything she tried completely flopped and she tanked the value of the company. What are you even talking about?

Imagine if another CEO took all the proceeds from the Alibaba stock and blew it trying to make a dying company relevant again. That would have been much, much worse.

Also the value of the company is the stock. She didn't tank it, it went up.

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Post by robofanatic »

Someone1234 wrote: post #96

Here's what a layoff email should include: - Broad specifics on who is getting laid off (numbers, teams/areas, geography). To help everyone understand the scope/nature of it. - Specifics about when people impacted will be notified by (ideally as short as possible, so people aren't e.g. waiting over a weekend to hear on Monday). Also, exactly how they will be notified. - Specifics on severance/support/benefits and or…

> I also like how it is "11 weeks" instead of 3 months,

May be that's because in US some people are paid bi-weekly and people's paydays can be different

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Post by micromacrofoot »

Here's a longer version of the quote she used:

> The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position his prestige and even his life for the welfare of others.

source: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/dra...

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

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Post by quantified »

jasmer wrote: post #100
KKKKkkkk1 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my book, the unsurpassed champion is Marissa Mayer. She was a product manager at early Google who dated Sergey and was promoted to VP. One of her accomplishments at Google was choosing the palette for the Google logo using a data-driven process. Based off of this success, she was made the CEO of Yahoo!, which she promptly proceeded to drive into the ground.

I suggest this is sexism here - and I'm generally the last person to call that kind of thing out, usually assuming goodwill. Specifically for implying that someone traded sex for a promotion, unless you have some legit data there. Marissa was a very early person at Google, and contributed to a lot of things [1]. Obviously a Wikipedia entry is going to be hagiographic, and some early players are going to be better tha…

Dating isn't sex. Just "super close, possibly hormone-addled friendship" is enough.

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Post by mlyle »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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.

You know, cylindrical and with more thickness at the bottom / fins is basically part of the game. It's intrinsic.

But Blue Origin has an aspect ratio that really makes the comparison more obvious... and then the top looks like a glans. Making it that penis-like is not mandatory.

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Post by tylerjaywood »

rom-antics wrote: post #114
dudul wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Look at wikipedia's top picture of the space shuttle. Far more respectable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle

What are those things it's attached to, and what purpose do they serve relative to the shuttle itself?

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

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Post by sidewndr46 »

rhino369 wrote: post #15
ccn0p wrote: post #4

tldr; You’re fired, we’re doing great thanks to cutting your cost, but stay strong in your job search during this recession like those who have been persecuted for the color of their skin!

It's considerably worse than that. The MLK quote appears to be referring to herself and her management team.

This. I'd be less bothered by the email if it just said "so long suckers! We're better than you & we are better off without you!"

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

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Post by dilyevsky »

guardiangod wrote: post #26
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.

There was also Meg Whitman who ran multiple companies into the ground
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