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  • seth@lemmy.worldtoProgramming@programming.dev•Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference | TechCrunch
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    6 months ago

    Laying people off instead of offering to move them to the now-more-important projects has to be one of the dumbest management moves that tech companies repeatedly do. These are people already trained on all the policies and procedures and tooling and “culture” specific to your company.

    It’s going to be more expensive to hire and train new people when the dumdums in upper management finally figure out the mistakes they made that got them to a point where they decided they need to cut jobs and projects, and the ramp-up time before you actually start seeing progress on those priorities is going to be seriously lengthened. Of course they won’t acknowledge it was their fault in the first place, and again the heads roll on the wrong end of the corporate ladder.

  • seth@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyz•A bad influence
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    7 months ago

    There are many valid complaints about Teams in this thread. The most unforgivable for me is the purple theme. Purple isn’t even a wavelength. It shouldn’t exist, nor should Teams, and I shouldn’t be forced to stare at both of them throughout my work day.

  • seth@lemmy.worldtoAutism@lemmy.world•Autism LPT: How to get out of a call when you wantEnglish
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    7 months ago

    LPT or masking tip? Masking makes things more bearable but I find it often prevents being able to make a genuine connection. I can mask fairly well for a couple hours but by then I’m exhausted. Trying to mask with people I see regularly inevitably ends up in ruined relationships due to internalized guilt from lying and them recognizing me as a liar. It saves time and stress to just be honest, even if that means coming off as acerbic or just eccentric.

  • seth@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Jane Goodall rule
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    7 months ago

    The very first part about Goodall and tool use in animals is incorrect. Darwin wrote about primates making and using tools, and presumably many other naturalists have for other creatures. He also wrote about musicality and other “human” features in animals as examples of how small evolutionary changes build up over time. Goodall did a lot of interesting research and observation and made it accessible to an easily distracted public, there’s no need to fudge her accomplishments to make a point.