Big tech job cuts, 70k jobs gone

2rosy said:
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LoL this is probably the best of them all - one that which only exists to click on buttons on Jira, start/stop meetings, tell people they're doing a good job or they're a bit off track...

Snarky comment aside, this role exists because engineers are/were disorganised in their work. But again a good one will sort of like make this additional role unnecessary if things are handled properly.
 
JonLivingston said:
Childish and off-topic bickerings aside... I am one of those who "can produce" (aka dev/software+devops/platform or whatever you want to call it - I don't consider QA a role anymore, topic of another convo if you want), and I can tell you a GOOD, sane engineer or a couple of them can make up for a team of 5 or 6, depending on the scale of a system and/or its usage patterns. No need for any of that fluff.

Heck, I run my trading system (not HFT, positions are held for days/weeks or even months) off a single EC2 instance in AWS for now and I even run the observability stack on it (no long-term metrics, I don't [have to] care).

Appreciate HFs and big corps have diff requirements and may need more systems in place, I work and worked for them and boy the waste that's there.

It's good for the people that can get a paycheck, but there's also a ton of waste, IMO.
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If we don't seek efficiency then we fall in the communist and union dogma, that of paying people to be on the payroll.
 
Overnight said:
Your statement is off-kilter. Presidents did not found this country...Some folks who helped found this country became President, would be more accurate.
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Still doesn't change the fact that Presidents' Day is more deserving of closing the market to celebrate than Juneteenth Day which was the point that I was trying to make. Glad that @VicBee liked your comment though. LOL
 
TheDawn said:
Still doesn't change the fact that Presidents' Day is more deserving of closing the market to celebrate than Juneteenth Day which was the point that I was trying to make. Glad that @VicBee liked your comment though. LOL
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You turned a perfectly fine thread into a political one.
 
TheDawn said:
Still doesn't change the fact that Presidents' Day is more deserving of closing the market to celebrate than Juneteenth Day which was the point that I was trying to make. Glad that @VicBee liked your comment though. LOL I still won my argument.
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Oh yeah?!? Did you know Maine and Massachusetts have a holiday called Patriots Day on third Monday of April which is usually right around April 15th, which means we get one extra day to file our taxes (Most years, depends on day of holiday)? AHAHHA! Sam Adams beer for everyone, WHOOOO!

There's a few other states that have usurped the holiday as their own, like Maryland and...I forget whomelse, but governments here are closed on that day. It's so messed up.
 
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VicBee said:
You turned a perfectly fine thread into a political one.
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With statements like these? LOL
VicBee said:
You brought up Juneteenth Day as a waste of time off. I don't imagine you're black and thus your criticism is unwarranted. You have no understanding of its meaning to people who fought for it. Just like MLK day infuriates right wing racists.

Presidents didn't found this country, the people did. It took many men and women fighting and dying against the British, and it took many men and women investing their blood, sweat and tears to build this country. Like all country being built, the elite of the time found a leader to elect as president.
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The thread went from having 1 idiot to having 3.
Now, with me as the 4th, I think we should be square.

Let's get back on topic, children. Geez you must be fun to work with..
 
Overnight said:
Oh yeah?!? Did you know Maine and Massachusetts have a holiday called Patriots Day on third day of April which is usually right around April 15th, which means we get one extra day to file our taxes (Most years, depends on day of holiday)? AHAHHA! Sam Adams beer for everyone, WHOOOO!

There's a few other states that have usurped the holiday as their own, like Maryland and...I forget whomelse, but governments here are closed on that day. It's so messed up.
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As long as they don't close the market to not allow me to trade, I have no beef with them.
 
TheDawn said:
As long as they don't close the market to not allow me to trade, I have no beef with them.
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Yer golden for Patriots Day, since it is a local, man. Sorry about the Juneteenth thing though, that is messed up. That was just started last year, or year before? Time has gone funky,
 
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