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Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by romellem »

mardifoufs wrote: post #25
jiocrag wrote: post #7

Fortune now confirming: https://fortune.com/2023/02/09/github-is-laying-off-10-of-st...

>i) Effective immediately, we will be moving laptop refreshes from three years to four years. ii) We will be moving to Microsoft Teams for the sole purpose of video conferencing, saving significant cost and simplifying cross-company and customer conversations Layoffs and having to use teams? Talk about a morale hit

I'm not kidding, one of the reasons I left my last job was when our parent company forced Outlook, Sharepoint, and Teams on us (vs. Google mail, Google Drive, and Slack). That change on its own isn't the worst thing of course, there were other reasons why I was considering leaving, but it was definitely one of the last straws.

Those MS solutions are just worse than the competition, and getting frustrated at your bugged technology because the parent company decides it can save some money is just trading employee satisfaction for dollars.

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by roboben »

flappyeagle wrote: post #92
roboben wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don’t they use Huddle then?

huddle as a lot of limitations. it's good for random adhoc chats but not good for more formal scheduled meeting. for larger companies, using something zoom-like and huddle makes sense.

My company does not have many formal scheduled meetings. Mostly doing huddle to adhoc chat, discuss problems, screen share and pair program. It works well

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by theironhammer »

lampshades wrote: post #5

This really is the techpocalypse, huh? I’m young (35) but I’ve never seen layoffs so continuous. I wonder how far into the year this will go and if we’ll ever come back. Maybe companies truly will start offshoring.

It's class war. The hedge funds see workers purely as a cost. They ignore the value workers create. This class war has been going on since Reagan and even before that (oil crisis early 70s). It's just only now spread to tech workers. See the chart here: www.epi.org/productivity

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by can16358p »

roboben wrote: post #82
bleuchase wrote: post #74

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They’re keeping Slack. Zoom is going away.

Why don’t they use Huddle then?

I love Slack but Huddle is absolutely terrible. Extremely low audio quality with extreme latency (whereas I have superb quality and low latency on Meet and Zoom on same devices/connections).

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by roboben »

bmy78 wrote: post #100
roboben wrote: post #27

The worst part of this is that everyone at GitHub is now forced to use Microsoft Teams.

Teams is the result of Microsoft taking a look at Slack and saying, how can we make this feel more like Excel?

Internal code name was Slack360

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by ccouzens »

m-ee wrote: post #48
patrakov wrote: post #35

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But what's wrong with Teams? It works well enough for me in Firefox on Linux. But OK, I only joined customer-initiated meetings, and was never presenting, only watching and talking, so maybe never used some important but non-working feature.

-It regularly sends me notifications that there’s new messages in threads I’m in. The new messages are from me -The phone dial in option doesn’t exist when you call someone through teams. Only on scheduled meetings. My laptop has audio issues so I have to awkwardly decline calls and send a meeting invite to whoever was trying to reach me. -Sharing a file in the chat for a meeting puts it into some incomprehensible in…

> -Sharing a file in the chat for a meeting puts it into some incomprehensible internal sharepoint structure that is tied to that specific meeting instance and is difficult to ever find again.

And prevents you reusing file names. If you uploaded "image.png" or "notes.txt" to a "Team" (room) once, it will make it awkward if someone tries to upload another file with the same name in the future.

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by jjeaff »

corndoge wrote: post #54
mardifoufs wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>i) Effective immediately, we will be moving laptop refreshes from three years to four years. ii) We will be moving to Microsoft Teams for the sole purpose of video conferencing, saving significant cost and simplifying cross-company and customer conversations Layoffs and having to use teams? Talk about a morale hit

Teams for video, not so bad. If they were replacing Slack with Teams, that would be horrible.

Surely they are just trying to gradually switch everything to Teams. Seems weird to use a slack clone for video chat only but continue to use slack for the chat.
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