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Re:GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices by xpe on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:40PM (#34727854)
Worse than losing your job?
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Re:GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices by xpe on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:46PM (#34727984)
Please explain the relevance of your comment?

Also, let's save the National Socialism comparisons for examples involving antisemitism, genocide, and authoritarianism. It is better to have dynamic range in our conversations, otherwise it all gets watered down.

Re:GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices by dan-0 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:51PM (#34728098)
Teams is horrible, but not nearly as horrible as an argument equating use of Teams to the Holocaust. There's a very big difference between using an app to communicate if you want your job and murder.
Re:GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices by 2devnull on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:56PM (#34728203)
I’ve always thought of zoom as the national socialist messaging app. Is it the sharepoint integration? That does seem a bit far left.
Re:GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices by dang on Saturday February 11, 2023 @01:20AM (#34750064)
We've asked you more than once before not to post flamebait comments to HN. If you keep doing it, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so please don't post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices by ghusto on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:52PM (#34728135)
For sure. As somebody said already, at least if you're fired you'll get severance. I'd get nothing when I quit though.

Have you _used_ MS Teams? I'm not exactly a fan of Slack, but it's like telepathy by comparison.

Re:GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices by xpe on Friday February 10, 2023 @09:38AM (#34740171)
I have. It is particularly bad, considering that its technical and UX criteria are not particularly mysterious. Overall, yeah, when corporate policies override reasonable employee productivity, something is off.
Re:GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices by pvarangot on Thursday February 09, 2023 @01:13PM (#34728507)
I would consider taking a pay cut and moving to a cheap suburb and work for the government or a bank before working for a big tech company that uses Teams. I would only use Teams on a small group or some kind of very highly paid consultant gig.
Re:GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices by xpe on Thursday February 09, 2023 @02:40PM (#34730058)
What do you prefer, Slack? Something else?

I find the whole premise of these kind of chat tools, combined with cultural patterns of using them, to feel like forced distraction.