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Re:What Happened to Rent the Backyard (post-mortem) by jspash on Saturday January 07, 2023 @07:36AM (#34287491)
"We believed that <snip>, workers with limited skills could be quickly trained and perform just as well as workers who would cost twice as much to employ"

My oh my. Will they ever learn?

You could power a small town by attaching a generator to the (imaginary) revolving door of my company used by bootcamp grads, overseas devs and relatives of senior management who tinker with computers.

That last one is not made up!

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Re:What Happened to Rent the Backyard (post-mortem) by luckylion on Saturday January 07, 2023 @07:56AM (#34287618)
"Look, we have people who know how to do this. We can just hire a bunch of other people and have our people sit down with them for an afternoon or two and tell them how to do it, right? Why hasn't anyone done this before? Guess it's time to disrupt the market."
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