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If you think your SaaS job is safe… you’re lying to yourself (Blind)
- rddcvgjc (Meta): irrespective of AI, workday is a company that should die miserable death for their shitty job application software.. ceo and PMs who designed this crap should be made to use it daily 50 times as a punishment
- GtQM82 (Google): Why is Workdays UX still so shitty, after all this time? Frankly, they deserve to be disrupted. Their moat (the inherent conservatism of HR departments) can’t (and shouldn’t) protect them from agentic disruption.
- usrnm12 (ex-Braze): There are open source alternatives for most of the services these SAAS companies provide. Their value is not on the code that claude can replicate, its on the continuing support and not needing to waste your own engineers time on maintaining something that is not core to your business.
Those who have SURVIVED layoffs – what’s your secret / advice? (Blind)
- mbly6743 (Meta): Get shit done. I haven’t seen too many industrious people let go.
- a2z1299 (Workday): Just not being be an asshole will save you 80% of times.. the other 20% can be for any reason
- sndkdk (ByteDance): Don’t be afraid of being laid off. Accept that layoff can happen to anyone at any time. Once I accepted this, I found peace in mind.
Corporate America discovered microdosing layoffs (Blind)
- H5gIb (eBay): There’s some HR research that suggests this comes out worse. People do notice their jobs aren’t safe and act accordingly, even if it’s not called a layoff. With a traditional large layoff, morale drops for up to several years, but tangibly impactful stuff like gatekeeping knowledge and attrition doesn’t continue as long.
- CJUu54 (The Trade Desk): This isn’t new, it’s to avoid WARN and other state/local requirements. Welcome to reality, this is the crappy side of being a corporate employee. It isn’t new.
- ekfijrb (Google): What did you think they meant when they said America is a capitalist country. You know miners and railroad workers had to die for concessions from the capitalists, right?
Turns out Dead Internet Theory was right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly 8,000% and rewiring the Internet’s business model (r/technology)
- theKetoBear: At what point do advertisers go " It doesn’t make sense to pay for robot views"
- Leek5: So we are just wasting a bunch of electricity powering bots to argue with other bots and sometimes people
- usmannaeem: It really sucks that developers VCs and tech bros can’t see how much they are poisoning people’s lives and not to forget the environmental impact.
US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search (r/technology)
- deekamus: It’s not illegal to wipe your phone.
- CondescendingShitbag: Technically, the accused didn’t wipe anything. The officers were in possession of his phone and entered the password that would initiate a wipe. That’s on them for entering it.
- pocketdrummer: Why does US Customs and Border Patrol need to search my phone when I reenter the country in the first place? I realize they’ve allegedly found a loophole to the 4th Amendment, but they have to understand this is against the spirit of the constitution.