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Grindr Loses Almost Half Its Staff on 2-Day RTO Requirement

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Re: Grindr Loses Almost Half Its Staff on 2-Day RTO Requirement

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Post by makeitdouble »

factorymoo wrote: post #49
mjhay wrote: post #6

Not sure that it's such a great business decision to lose almost half your staff, and probably moreso the higher-performing ones with other options. I'm guessing that this was intended to reduce the headcount without paying severance, which sounds attractive to the average MBA brain with zero ability to think through long-term consequences.

> " with zero ability to think through long-term consequences" The median tenure in tech is one to two years before moving on to another team or company [1]. You need to say that what you care about is long term, but that's now how we're compensated (read: incentivised). Plus you're not there to see it anyways so there are really very little incentives to think long term. [1] some googling but couldn't find a great s…

The one~two year turnover is usually for employees that can easily come and go. Key individual contributors for instance often stay for far longer, forgoing more lucrative options to keep working on an environment that fits them.

Losing people in these positions will hurt a lot more than the average engineer/sales moving on after a short stint.

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Post by acemonstertoys »

monksy wrote: post #3
toomuchtodo wrote: post #2

https://archive.ph/pLUy9

Is it just me or are other people being denied archive/cloudfront pages due to the CDN capacha? Every time I complete the CAPTCHA it doesnt't leave that page.

This is on purpose, the owner of archive hates cloudflare and purposely sabotages anyone who uses their DNS

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Post by cratermoon »

throwaw1yyy wrote: post #186
cratermoon wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For very small values of 'great'.

The app is a lot faster and so is the mobile web client. They are shipping

It's dead simple easy to make things go faster if you take away features like blocking and limit users to reading a few hundred posts a day.

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Post by nxobject »

dabraham1248 wrote: post #222
mrguyorama wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That looks like a lot of marketing to me trying to shore up Biden's reputation with Union workers after he killed the railroad strike and left our necessary workers to the dogs.

From the _IBEW_ ( https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/2306... ): > “We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to…

That's amazing – it's strange that I never noticed that. Although I can imagine that it would benefit a lot of dealmakers to lower the public attention on this issue a little.

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Post by wly_cdgr »

wvenable wrote: post #239
wly_cdgr wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, they are a matchmaking connections-as-a-service company that happens to do it through an app.

...and Adobe is an artist tool company that just never stocks any paints or canvases.

On the most important level,...yes.

...But also, Adobe invests a LOT more in developing proprietary, highly customized and specialized, highly sophisticated software in-house and from scratch. The Grindr app seems much closer to the "built with generic open source lego blocks" side of the spectrum, no? Maybe it is not so clear-cut and drastic, as they probably also have a lot of custom tech - e.g. matchmaking / trust&safety algos? - and Adobe IS using lots of OSS building blocks as well, I expect. But still, I do think there's a difference.

But going back to the first part - I appreciate your implicit point, but most any company is best served by thinking about itself first and foremost as an [its function] company. So yes, Adobe IS an artist tool company more so than / before it is a "tech company".

If the companies that dominated the artist tool market before computers had had the good sense to think of themselves in this flexible, adaptable, big-picture way (instead of as paint-chemtech companies or whatevs) there's every chance one or more of them would have the $$$ that has instead gone to Adobe. They already had the customer & vendor relationships, the brand awareness, etc - i.e., the hard parts.

If you are a poker player, it's likely that it currently makes sense for you to play NLHE almost exclusively. That doesn't mean that it's correct or in your best interest for you to think of yourself as a NLHE player rather than a poker player.

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Post by archo »

Bud wrote: post #4
monksy wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it just me or are other people being denied archive/cloudfront pages due to the CDN capacha? Every time I complete the CAPTCHA it doesnt't leave that page.

Also broken CAPTCHA page for me.

Change your DNS - Cloudflare and archive.today do not play nice - (think, David vs Goliath) Search;

  2023:'public-dns'
Take Control of your DNS

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Post by jwestbury »

jq-r wrote: post #112
throaway920181 wrote: post #10

For anyone else confused, RTO = "Return to Office". First thing that came to mind for me was "Recovery Time Objective."

Which is kind of ironic because in the last 3 years after the company was returned from Chinese ownership back to the States, pretty much all employees were new and all worked remotely. So the "Return" part is misleading a reader thinking that the employees were working from a office pre-pandemic. That's just not the case.

They don't even have offices to return to. I know someone who had just started there when they did this. The paperwork they sent her regarding RTO didn't even have an office location on it, but specified she had to live within 50 miles of the unspecified office. In the end, it turns out they've rented some WeWork space.

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Post by jwestbury »

archo wrote: post #256
Bud wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also broken CAPTCHA page for me.

Change your DNS - Cloudflare and archive.today do not play nice - (think, David vs Goliath) Search; 2023:'public-dns' Take Control of your DNS

This isn't David vs. Goliath. archive.is blocks Cloudflare DNS because Cloudflare doesn't pass EDNS subnet information. This has been addressed directly by the Cloudflare CEO on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702

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Post by jwestbury »

wly_cdgr wrote: post #255
wvenable wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...and Adobe is an artist tool company that just never stocks any paints or canvases.

On the most important level,...yes. ...But also, Adobe invests a LOT more in developing proprietary, highly customized and specialized, highly sophisticated software in-house and from scratch. The Grindr app seems much closer to the "built with generic open source lego blocks" side of the spectrum, no? Maybe it is not so clear-cut and drastic, as they probably also have a lot of custom tech - e.g. matchmaking / trust…

> If the companies that dominated the artist tool market before computers had had the good sense to think of themselves in this flexible, adaptable, big-picture way (instead of as paint-chemtech companies or whatevs)

Essentially, the Polaroid company. Their biggest income was film, so they saw themselves as a film company. When digital photography came along, they did some research in the area, but largely decided, "We're a film company, why would we sell this thing for lower profit margins?"

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Post by rhaway84773 »

nxobject wrote: post #254
dabraham1248 wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the _IBEW_ ( https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/2306... ): > “We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to…

That's amazing – it's strange that I never noticed that. Although I can imagine that it would benefit a lot of dealmakers to lower the public attention on this issue a little.

No it doesn’t benefit any deal maker to do this.

The media simply doesn’t cover this for obvious reasons.

The media is corporate and pro union actions aren’t good for them either.

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