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1. Zach Leatherman 2 min later

   I’ll start us off with this one from PlanetScale: https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-forever

   (via @nmoo https://mas.to/@nmoo/112050444053820199)

   1. katerberg 5 min later

      @zachleat That feels like an AI wrote it.

      1. Zach Leatherman 8 min later

         @katerberg the intelligence was certainly artificial, AI or not

   2. amy 2 hr later

      @zachleat @nmoo yiiiiikes, my old manager :)))
      1. Giflian 4 hr later

         @kivikakk @zachleat @nmoo same, but it tracks

   3. cthos 🐱 3 hr later

      @zachleat @nmoo uhhhhhhhh that one seems hard to top.

   4. Ornella 🍉 10 hr later

      @zachleat @nmoo wow that really is awful.

   5. Frank // Mottokrosh 13 hr later

      @zachleat @nmoo Wow, that is… something. 😯

2. Mark W. Alexander 32 min later

   @zachleat

   "Not to interrupt, but they just laid us all off."

   https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/not-to-interrupt-but-they-just-laid-us-all-off-unionised-youtube-workers-in-texas-are-told-in-the-middle-of-a-live-city-council-meeting-that-they-dont-have-jobs-anymore/

3. Dave 🧱 35 min later

   @zachleat https://mashable.com/article/linkedin-ceo-crying-viral-photo

   1. Robb 1 hr later

      @DavidDarnes @zachleat 100% this. Absolute clown

4. Andy 57 min later

   @zachleat https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/01/youtube-union-contractor-layoffs/

5. Grifdail 1 hr later

   @zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com I once (late 2020) learned i was laidoff in a email "Here the important document you need about the townhall meeting of this afternoon where's we will discuss the closure of the game studio". And yes the documents included the list of people layed off. And no it wasn't a mistake, they just didn't think people would read it before the meeting. And yes they were suprised people were angry about it.

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @grifdail *wow*

6. "You do you" is Eu-gen-ics. 1 hr later

   @zachleat After working to 5 am on a new business deck, arrived home and checked my email, to discover a diagram of desk assignments at our new office space.

   Many people, including myself, didn't have a desk assigned.

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @beadsland *what*—unreal!

7. campbell 1 hr later

   @zachleat could be a bit of recency bias but this one is pretty awful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdLsx1am9TU

8. gRegor Morrill 2 hr later

   The recent Vice layoffs where emoji reactions were enabled and they stopped due to the flood of thumbs-down. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vice-execs-abruptly-lay-off-221022407.html

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

      @gregorlove.com yeah, that one was particularly bad.