Another R T LAYOFF
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Uber is laying off 10% of staff
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Re: Uber is laying off 10% of staff
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love how most any RTO-proponent always presents RTO as "well I'm glad you're back in the office with me because that's better for me". Ask most any WFH-proponent about going to the office and the answer will read like "do whatever works best for yourself, I prefer WFH myself, you can go to the office if you want". It's a very selfish mindset, really. If RTO-proponents cared about not imposing their will on others,…
Well what do you expect? Holing yourself up in your home is something you can do unilaterally. In-person team collaboration requires... well, collaboration. It's not a unilateral action so there isn't unilateral advice.
in-person collaboration requiring in-person more than collaboration, as collaboration is quite possible remotely, and even asynchronously.
“holing yourself up…”
but it wasn’t about conversation, it was about opinion.
Re: Uber is laying off 10% of staff
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can't give a concrete and nonsensical way Uber has grown 100x (minimum number of "orders") while revenue tripled. Cannot be miles. Can't be riders. Can't be drivers. Revenue is top line, by definition. This statement is as bad as the original. There is no need for hyperbolic statements that one doesn't even understand. "Uber has grown significantly" works. Why the need to sound so sophisticated and use terms like…
They are simply measuring in base 1.7 :^) Uber has grown 2 orders of magnitude!
touche.
Re: Uber is laying off 10% of staff
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have noticed that "orders of magnitude" is getting the same colloquial treatment that has long-since happened to "decimated". That is, a departure in common parlance from the technical meaning of the word to one used to communicate a general description of largeness.
Sure, but the use of "decimated" is used approximately correctly in most cases, even if not precisely right. And it is a cool sounding word, and it's one word. "Orders of magnitude" is three words when one would do, it's used to sound sophisticated, and it's use is off by... an order of magnitude or so... in many cases
For a long time I thought it meant to reduce to 1/10th not by 1/10th.
Re: Uber is laying off 10% of staff
#55AI is behind this layoff, but the AI is in Waymo's cars.
Re: Uber is laying off 10% of staff
#56Khosrowshahi is full of shit 99.9% of the time but this is one of the few, maybe only, layoff letters that actually makes sense and names specific things that seem reasonable (other than forcing RTO), and it doesn't mention AI at all, which is refreshing. Still, sorry for anyone who was laid off.
Re: Uber is laying off 10% of staff
#57Revenue is up massively, so we'll be getting rid of the people that helped that happen. Genius move.
Then the best people quit on a random Tuesday and we have all hands on why managers cannot retain top talent.
Nobody believes a single promise of a company anymore. That promo promise after a hard assignment? Yeah fuck that.
Re: Uber is laying off 10% of staff
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have noticed that "orders of magnitude" is getting the same colloquial treatment that has long-since happened to "decimated". That is, a departure in common parlance from the technical meaning of the word to one used to communicate a general description of largeness.
Sure, but the use of "decimated" is used approximately correctly in most cases, even if not precisely right. And it is a cool sounding word, and it's one word. "Orders of magnitude" is three words when one would do, it's used to sound sophisticated, and it's use is off by... an order of magnitude or so... in many cases
Hmm... Sometimes decimated is used in ways that are colloquially understandable but actually make no sense at all. For example, "Sadly, my team got decimated in the playoffs". That doesn't even make sense. 1/10th of the team lost the game? What?
Re: Uber is laying off 10% of staff
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, but the use of "decimated" is used approximately correctly in most cases, even if not precisely right. And it is a cool sounding word, and it's one word. "Orders of magnitude" is three words when one would do, it's used to sound sophisticated, and it's use is off by... an order of magnitude or so... in many cases
Hmm... Sometimes decimated is used in ways that are colloquially understandable but actually make no sense at all. For example, "Sadly, my team got decimated in the playoffs". That doesn't even make sense. 1/10th of the team lost the game? What?
Think it's more like the worst thing that can happen to a Roman army unit happened to us.
Re: Uber is laying off 10% of staff
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, but the use of "decimated" is used approximately correctly in most cases, even if not precisely right. And it is a cool sounding word, and it's one word. "Orders of magnitude" is three words when one would do, it's used to sound sophisticated, and it's use is off by... an order of magnitude or so... in many cases
For a long time I thought it meant to reduce to 1/10th not by 1/10th.
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