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GoDaddy Announces Layoffs of “About 8%”

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Re: GoDaddy Announces Layoffs of “About 8%”

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Post by noduerme »

enoch_r wrote: post #88
noduerme wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look, "Go Daddy" itself is pretty weird and creepy as a name. The thing that really soured me on it and pulled my clients who were there was the fact that the "daddy" in question was out shooting elephants. Family environment is great and all, and I suppose some villagers got to eat an elephant, but I'll be damned if I'll let anyone I know pay that guy for domain registration. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/daddy-ce…

Paying people to raise social, intelligent animals in horrific environments and then slaughter them seems more morally questionable than quickly ending the life of a wild elephant. Do you ensure that the CEOs of companies you do work with are vegan?

No, but it would be valid if I did. As it is, I avoid transacting with people who go out of their way to shoot endangered wild animals for pleasure.

Re: GoDaddy Announces Layoffs of “About 8%”

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Post by Tinkerbell5481 »

deely3 wrote: post #87
thanatropism wrote: post #9

I have the feeling that these announcements never specify that it's mostly programmers or technical people, but HN reacts like it is. Maybe they don't need as many secretaries and gophers as before?

Maybe even upper management?

We were affected by this layoff, software engineering family over here.It seemed to be so random. It was people from so many different areas. We have beena GoDaddy family for over 17 years. This was a shock for sure

Re: GoDaddy Announces Layoffs of “About 8%”

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Post by Tinkerbell5481 »

ProAm wrote: post #68
barbazoo wrote: post #51

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It's still people like you and me that are losing their jobs.

I wish them the best finding a new job at an ethically and morally good company.

Our family has been with GoDaddy for over 17 years and both my husband and myself have personally loved working for the company. Our whole marriage, the birth of our children, we ere there and we are deeply rooted in the company and have been treated very well. Which I guess makes this that much harder honestly. The last few days have been tears of both fear and sadness that this is no longer a part of our life.

Re: GoDaddy Announces Layoffs of “About 8%”

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Post by Tinkerbell5481 »

This honestly shook our family as we were included in the 8%. We have been with them for over 17+ years and were treated very well throughout our time with them. I've read the news stories and the "public statements" so many times and we still can't figure out the why. The morning after the layoffs, they hosted a townhall assuring the lucky remainers that profits were up, and there was still security in their jobs. So again, we go back to the question of the why. We were mid-projects that needed to be handed off to contract workers, as our access was taken away almost immediately.

Re: GoDaddy Announces Layoffs of “About 8%”

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Post by enoch_r »

noduerme wrote: post #91
enoch_r wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paying people to raise social, intelligent animals in horrific environments and then slaughter them seems more morally questionable than quickly ending the life of a wild elephant. Do you ensure that the CEOs of companies you do work with are vegan?

No, but it would be valid if I did. As it is, I avoid transacting with people who go out of their way to shoot endangered wild animals for pleasure.

African elephants are not endangered, especially in Zimbabwe (where he apparently shot the elephant): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-63597223

Of course it's totally valid to make whatever decisions you like, but there is something disconcerting to me about how we judge our hands clean as long as we pay someone else to do horrific things to animals. Personally I think I probably do worse moral harm than killing an elephant every time I buy a dozen eggs or a Costco rotisserie chicken.

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Post by msikora »

thanatropism wrote: post #9

I have the feeling that these announcements never specify that it's mostly programmers or technical people, but HN reacts like it is. Maybe they don't need as many secretaries and gophers as before?

Very very few devs got laid off. Vast majority was recruiting and marketing.

Re: GoDaddy Announces Layoffs of “About 8%”

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Post by likeabbas »

scandox wrote: post #37
likeabbas wrote: post #6

GoDaddy was the first software engineering job I worked for. I had interned there too. It's understandable that the external perception of the company is bad (and even sexist), but internally GoDaddy was a great place to work. They're always a major sponsor of Grace Hopper. They were adamant about hiring women. They made my internship so much fun, and I am still friends with many of my co-interns from that summer. Of…

I'd say the family metaphor is very apt. As a customer I always felt they were family run. Possibly a very large, ethnically homogeneous family with interests in funeral homes, car parks, casinos and hospitality. That kind of family.

> ethnically homogeneous family

My tech lead (later manager) was a black lesbian woman. I'm sorry if that's not ethnically homogeneous enough for you.

Re: GoDaddy Announces Layoffs of “About 8%”

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Post by dopeboy »

osigurdson wrote: post #78
noduerme wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look, "Go Daddy" itself is pretty weird and creepy as a name. The thing that really soured me on it and pulled my clients who were there was the fact that the "daddy" in question was out shooting elephants. Family environment is great and all, and I suppose some villagers got to eat an elephant, but I'll be damned if I'll let anyone I know pay that guy for domain registration. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/daddy-ce…

Go Daddy is proof that a fractured market can be consolidated with extreme marketing exposure. Wix, Monday.com, Asana, etc. are using the same playbook imo.

Fantastic insight. Carl's Jr is another example, atleast in the early 2000s.

Re: GoDaddy Announces Layoffs of “About 8%”

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Post by noduerme »

enoch_r wrote: post #95
noduerme wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, but it would be valid if I did. As it is, I avoid transacting with people who go out of their way to shoot endangered wild animals for pleasure.

African elephants are not endangered, especially in Zimbabwe (where he apparently shot the elephant): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-63597223 Of course it's totally valid to make whatever decisions you like, but there is something disconcerting to me about how we judge our hands clean as long as we pay someone else to do horrific things to animals. Personally I think I probably do worse moral harm than killing…

An average African elephant weighs 12,000 pounds. A roaster weights about 10. As a yardstick, someone who goes out and kills 1200 chickens just for joy is probably a shittier person than someone who kills one to eat.

Re: GoDaddy Announces Layoffs of “About 8%”

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Post by carpe171 »

neom wrote: post #7

It's interesting seeing GoDaddy/Gitlab lay off so late in the game. Jeff Lawson (TWLO) who is a fantastic financial and product focused CEO did his prep work in September last year with 11% of the company. I find it pretty hard to grok what your FP&A team must be like if you're a b2b supply chain business thinking about this stuff Q1 in global economic downturn.

this aged well
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