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by someguy212 1305 days ago
Guess that means the office is no longer closed. I just hope whoever processes severance checks is still working.
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> I just hope whoever processes severance checks is still working.

In the dotcom era, I was in the middle of a mass layoff. At the meeting, "everybody go back to your desk and dial extension 1234, and you will get a message with your employment status, instructions and next steps".

PBX crashed.

PBX took a while being brought back up because, well, the people responsible for supporting it wanted to find out whether _they_ were some of those laid off before deciding whether they wanted to bring it back up.

I'm not enjoying how many comparisons lately I am hearing to the dotcom era.
We're seeing layoffs and stock crashes, but not as many completely unsound businesses. Meta is still making a ton of money.
Perhaps it is still closed and no one told him.

The movie is going to be great.

I don’t want to see this movie. So far, it’s an entitled and mentally-ill man-child learning that all the praise he’s gotten in recent years is for other people’s work, and he’s not a domain expert on every type of technology.

I think we all deal with enough of that on a small scale to be sick of it.

I'm afraid it's a bit optimistic to assume he's learning anything here..