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[–] yaroto98@lemmy.org 44 points 5 days ago (2 children)
  • Tech company gets acquired by massive company for a ridiculous sum of money
  • Site never really generated much revenue
  • Parent company demands cuts
  • lays off workers, ahem sorry, removes redundant positions
  • re-org
  • gets rid of physical assets by moving to the cloud claiming savings despite it almost always being more expensive and worse than running your own.
  • lay off more employees claiming move to the cloud behind schedule and over budget
  • blame the economy
  • probably something with AI
  • hire a more 'global workforce'
  • re-org
  • RTO mandate to make the highest paid employees leave after they trained their replacements overseas
  • voluntary severance package
  • another round of layoffs
  • re-org
  • quarterly report showing highest profits in company history
  • worst compensation bumps in company history
[–] wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 21 points 5 days ago

My company used to staff in-house help desk, about 90% of which worked remotely full-time. They were outsourced, and a few months later, covid hit. Guess who didn't have a functioning help desk (due to the contractor using crowded call centers) during a time when we were scrambling to get as many people as possible working remotely? I know hindsight is 20/20, but that was a pretty big facepalm.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

You forgot profit sharing and bonuses for the C-suite only, then it's carved up and the pension plan is raped to death.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Stack Overflow no longer has any physical datacenters

Do they think cloud services are literally non-corporal?

Has the cloud rug-pull happened yet or are they waiting for some recession to jack up prices?

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I mean, that’s what the marketing folks at the hyperscalers would have us believe…

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I understand why startups want cloud services. Don’t know why a group that reached the top of the s-curve a decade ago wants to pad Microsoft’s or google’s or Amazon’s profits.

I suppose shard(t)ing, but wouldn’t a CDN be a better fit? Maybe GDPR.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago

Wait a sec, do we actually know if hyperscalers like M$ and Fuckle are making profit off of that business and won't need to drastically increase prices later on (similar to Netflix, Discord, etc.)?

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not only enshittifying the site itself, I see...

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Enshiteifying.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

Congrats on the monthly costs i guess? What you pay in sending a guy down to replace a job you will pay 10x in monthly costs.

I can understand a move to cloud infra for a company as worldwide as stackoverflow but I dont think they make the revenue required to support it. They're going to get squeezed by the increasing costs eventually.

[–] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 7 points 5 days ago

Massive blunder right there. Don't do this.