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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 stackedinserter »

bee_rider wrote: post #101
stackedinserter wrote: post #61

Original MLK quote: > 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.

I guess it is a petty thing to complain about I the context of such a shitty misuse of a quote, but also: > ‘the ultimate measure of a [leader] is not where [they] stand in the moments of comfort and convenience, but where [they] stand in times of challenge and controversy,’ The use of brackets like this seems a bit dishonest. At least, I’ve usually seen them used to insert clarifying context about the original quote…

The whole story is petty thing to complain. It's literally not a news and doesn't worth the discussion.

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Post by MisterBastahrd »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #249
MisterBastahrd wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What exactly do you think raising interest rates contribute to? Yes, prices are going higher, but they're trying to use the tools available to force hiring to slow down because it's impacting the market with increased wages.

> What exactly do you think raising interest rates contribute to? Not inflation... the whole point of this is to make inflation go down. If raising interest rates would cause inflation, why did they start after inflation spiked? Why did inflation go back down after they raised rates? Why are they saying everything they're saying? If inflation slows down the economy, and they want to slow the economy and openly admit…

They are using interest rates to slow down hiring and increasing wages because of increasing prices. They are essentially trying to make borrowing as hard as possible to increase unemployment. Not everyone is going to quit borrowing. Especially companies who are currently experiencing hypergrowth. But in any event, increasing interest rates are going to increase prices.

In other words, their mechanism for regulating inflation is broken and it's just causing more price increases to occur. Wages have been so stagnant for so long and employees are so incredibly tired of wealth hoarding by the upper class that people are refusing to take jobs for comparative wages that they would have flocked to in 2008.

And I'm all for it. Because prices have outstripped wages for a very long time and we're supposed to just sit here and figure out how to borrow ourselves to death.

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

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Post by Dylan16807 »

MisterBastahrd wrote: post #252
Dylan16807 wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What exactly do you think raising interest rates contribute to? Not inflation... the whole point of this is to make inflation go down. If raising interest rates would cause inflation, why did they start after inflation spiked? Why did inflation go back down after they raised rates? Why are they saying everything they're saying? If inflation slows down the economy, and they want to slow the economy and openly admit…

They are using interest rates to slow down hiring and increasing wages because of increasing prices. They are essentially trying to make borrowing as hard as possible to increase unemployment. Not everyone is going to quit borrowing. Especially companies who are currently experiencing hypergrowth. But in any event, increasing interest rates are going to increase prices. In other words, their mechanism for regulating…

Okay, all of that makes plenty of sense to me.

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

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Post by hodgesrm »

metadat wrote: post #122
jasmer wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Hagiography is literally writing about the lives of saints: a sturdy addition to any writer's vocabulary. To avoid overuse there are also fine synonyms like panegyric (defined as "elaborate praise" in the OED) and encomium.

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Post by [deleted] »

trynewideas wrote: post #62
guardiangod wrote: post #26

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HP "The Witch" Carly Fiorina is still the leader I'd say.

Marissa Mayer deserves a spot for stack-ranking Yahoo into the grave. An early pioneer of forcing remote workers into offices or exits. The Tumblr acquisition. "There will be no layoffs this week", then calling layoffs "remixes".

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