Martin Luther King, Jr. was a socialist. To him, capitalism was inextricably intertwined with white supremacy. He would have been appalled at this usage of his words.
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
#72I'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.
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.
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Re: PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever
#73Hanlon's Razor and all that, but this reads as intentional to me. She wanted attention; she got attention. Specifically, she wanted people to know about items that she believes will increase her company's valuation, and she found a way to get attention in that area (the giveaway is that she even boasted about some elements of the company's financials and reports in the very same letter). She knew damn well that this…
That "all PR is good PR" kinda only applies to actors. Some random startup that does God knows what (probably not very much if their leadership is so shit) doesn't benefit from having a massive scandal come up every time you Google them. Most technical people don't use the same criteria to purchase SaaS software that they use to purchase tabloids
Sorry if I was unclear: I didn't mean to suggest that this is PR for PR's sake, because of a belief that all PR is good.
She probably correctly believes that a) layoffs will increase short-term valuation, and that her vile characterization of the layoffs will get more eyeballs on the part of the letter that begins, "We expect to finish the year strong".
It's an extremely simple money play.
She probably drafted an apology letter alongside this one, which she'll issue in a few days, by which time the goals of this letter will have been achieved.
The play seems relatively transparent to me.
Re: PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
>this recession HN needs to stop repeating this nonsense to one another. We are not in a recession. The latest GDP figures came out yesterday, and growth beat expectations by 12%. Service industries are hiring. The tech sector can no longer make billions by using AI to draw cat faces on selfie pics, but that has little bearing on the rest of the economy. People on this site have willfully changed the definition of re…
Of course we aren't in a recession. It's why the business class has been losing their goddamned minds. They keep attempting to force us into one so that they can slow down the economy and get a Republican in the White House again, but companies are having so much fun gobbling up record profits via record markups that interest rates aren't mattering as much as they should. We have an entire new generation of C-suite e…
Unless you think inflation doesn't matter, the economy has only been well-functioning for the last couple months, and was in big trouble for the previous year and a half.
Re: PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever
#75Someone did it as a joke with Chatgpt ^^ i thought no way that would happen in real life https://futurism.com/chatgpt-shamelessly-writes-letter-annou...
ChatGPT has become the place that people go when they don't want to write something and don't know what to write. It's not unlikely that Jennifer Tejada used ChatGPT.
Re: PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever
#76Unclear to me how much of the negative perspective of this is because of her gender. Media has a bias against female leaders. The fact that they don't put the whole email in there is concerning as well. E.g. Stripe had a similar tone in that they basically wanted to maintain their margins but didn't get anything close to this type of negative coverage. No MLK quotes though
This has nothing to do with gender.
If any tech leader sent such a ridiculous msg during layoffs they would face the same scrutiny.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use it I am pretty happy with its. Of course in theory no company need to exist, but what do you propose people use instead?
It’s sort of surprising this isn’t a product in various cloud providers; there are open source options of course (which cost engineering time), but this could also be as straightforward as a scheduler using existing IAM (user list) and messaging (voice, email, sms, webhooks) interfaces. You’d of course still be able to use this with non cloud infra based on telemetry or other signals to trigger the initial incident.…
Your reply is like saying anyone can implement Twitter in a weekend, it's just a react ui on top of a Postgres database. It's basically nonsense.
Re: PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever
#78I'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.
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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.
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#79I'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.
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.
Now now, let's not understate the accomplishments of Elizabeth Holmes.
Re: PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever
#80Pagerduty is another one of these companies which do not need to exist like Uber and WeWork. No wonder they attract the worst kind of CEOs.
I use it I am pretty happy with its. Of course in theory no company need to exist, but what do you propose people use instead?
Pagerduty's web UX makes the AWS console look good. I hate it.
Example: Go to the homepage and see how many clicks it takes to find out the simle question of "When am I on call next?"