Re:What do Starlink’s latest Ookla results mean for its RDOF...
by niij on Thursday June 30, 2022 @10:43PM
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I don't understand the significance of the San Mateo city in this context. I don't work in this industry. Were there higher level programmers included as well, instead of work akin to Amazon Mechanical Turk?
Do you have a source for the underperforming thing? That'd be next level incompetence for them to lay off 200 people for that reason all at once. (not saying it's impossible obviously!)
Re:What do Starlink’s latest Ookla results mean for its RDOF...
by ncmncm on Thursday June 30, 2022 @11:59PM
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Same article you linked (tx), at the end. So, you know as much as I do. Before, I only knew the headline: closed office, flushed staff.
Agree, abusing labor law like that would be pretty scummy. Is it "incompetent" if it costs less? Depends on who is getting in trouble.
They are closing the entire San Mateo unit. If I were among the "self-driving" staff remaining, I would be updating my résumé.
Curiously, all those dumped were "terminated for underperforming", which will make finding work elsewhere hard, unless other companies see it as a cynical ploy to dodge regulations on normal layoffs.