Interview with Dying Company's Product Manager 

We should have a meeting about this.

@@ahvideplaneetfirst let's have a meeting to pre meeting

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@@kailentit .then() ?

buildspace office?

"I didn't forget your link is literally broken this is illegal" -someone who couldn't reopen a ticket

@@feritperliare2890 “thank you for your 5 star rating”

Not gonna lie, I welcome my debit card expiring because all the emails about failed subscriptions gives me a better opportunity to figure out which ones I care about. :D

​@@feritperliare2890That's why I specifically have a card with 0 money and credit limit. My heart becomes happy from all "not enough money bank notifications".

@@MazonDel This happened to me 1 week ago and im super happy

Literally what google did woth search lol

Every time reddit makes a change

I already wondered if this could be like a real thing

*squishes stress ball*

... You're not allowed to just say that, man, you have to put a trigger warning on that $#!@

​@@WM-gr4qiwomp womp

How many story points is that¿

🤣🤣🤣 The PTSD is real.

@@Rengah this actually reminds me of some very dark academic studies on human behaviour.

lol

hide the login window, straight up replace it with a register now for 80% off (the first year, only for new customers)

And one of the few product managers who'd actually get along with lmao

Are you an amazonian ?? ( Apologies if not, Bias to action is an amazon leadership principle and it is mandatory for every amazonian to slip in a leadership principle in every conversation they do)

@@rohit_bangaAmazonian? I beg you don’t spread this cheap marketing slang

@@rohit_banga holy moley just reading that sentence made me want to do something drastic, god help us all

"Deadass. War stays the same. On god."

I lost it at "nothing will ever change"

Hey people, so nice to see all the confirmation! I thought this lots of times with any sorts of incompetent office: "They must be doing this on purpose, right?" Maybe reality is sometimes not that far off.

Oracle, actually. Forgot the part about their legal department ?

@@chpsilva stock chart in the background is PayPal I believe

The stock is PayPal but this could be a lot of companies

😂😂

IBM represent

Mine was recently bought and is now just the software division if you will, but it's pretty clear we're headed that way. A particular favorite of mine among recurring themes is the lack of documentation regarding anything (including basic and common procedures) in a business context that provides devops. It's hard to configure a customer's installation if you have no f'ing clue how and the only people who do know are busy fixing the urgent issues at another customer because the higher-ups insist on biting off more than we can chew.

@@traveller23eStuff being documented is always the exception.

@@traveller23ebro we may we working in the same company holy shit

At a startup I worked at, we added a weekly meeting to touch base on general feelings on the number of meetings we were having each week, which meetings we weren't having but should be having, and which meetings we should stop. An hour a week. That was just another red flag that things were going downhill. Another fun red flag was when our project manager tried to 'overthrow' the Director to take power for herself, but the coup failed and instead we ended up with 2 co-directors.

Another half still does not suspect they are dying one

If that's a real stock in the background we can find out... Paypal Holdings, Inc.

Last frame video zooms out and pans to right showing Paypal's blue logo :D

It was written under his name at the beginning)

​@@VRchitectureThat is an absolute brilliant callback about 70% of the way through where you only get critical information at the start.

Of course, like priority number 1 (1 being lower than 10).

Or take months to reopen a ticket is more like it.

What matters is profit under this system

IMPLEMENT A GITHUB BOT THAT CLOSES STALE ISSUES AUTOMATICALLY. THEN FORGET TO ADD AN OVERRIDE TAG. THEN MAKE MANAGEMENT OF THE OVERRIDE TAG ARBITRARY VIA UNDERSTAFFING *AND* RANDOM MANAGEMENT FEELINGS. ADD VOICE CONTROLLED MENUS. IMPLEMENT THE BOFH PHONE MENU LOOP BEHIND IT.

Just create a new one and link it

Well I know its for fun and all but in real life, this is super important to keep things organized. I work in a international company and our helpdesk has hundreds of tickets a day. If we let customers reoopen the same ticket with some other different bullshit questions, it all goes to chaos. so once a ticket/issue is solved, it cannot be reopen for organization purposes.

but yea it is super frustrating to them it has been mentioned more than once

Ah, this is how my support team works. Servicenow is the worst.

lmao I'm in the same boat. they laid off 1/3 of our company last year and they've announced a "reorg" for nex month

​@@vash47I've an unemployment insurance that pays out for up to 12 months if I ever get between jobs. Expensive but totally worth it.

Yes

depends whether or not you're ready to jump ship

That probably indicates you're in a wrong company.

And his dozen of Scrum certificates

Product manager thinking “AI” is like some magic API that will learn by itself lol

Add a checkbox that remembers its value. Your program now makes decisions based on info it has learned about that specific customer. That technically counts as AI.

"Uh sir this is a steel depot" "Idc put ai in it"

I think 2 real jobs and 3-4 intern/working student jobs and a few summer jobs should be enough to get all this. Because it is the same everywhere.

It took 1 year for me. These zombie companies are a lot more common than you think.

I really wish he'd included it visibly going down in real time

Nice catch! For me, the video had a PayPal vibe anyway. I tried to get through the customer service labyrinth for weeks once, but it was impregnable.

@@gergelymarton yea 😆 it was the first stock I searched for

Do people still use Jenkins?

@@ThatGuyFromMA what else for embedded?

do organic cats make good food?

​@@megamastahGitHub action custom runner?

@@ThatGuyFromMA well, the repositories are not hosted on GitHub.

Bro spill the beans... Drop the company name bro!

@@sdsappsandgames6262 i will do that later via an anonymous Glassdoor review which will read like a salty blog post even though everything in it is probably true

​@@sdsappsandgames6262very end of video, frame right

He can't. He was re-hired with an NDA.

@@GeneralChangFromDanang you know how it works

Our boy is going places!

It's not you! It's us!

He was afraid to say what he really meant: strong Indian accent.

The UK is the only country in the world where I haven’t been able to understand people’s English, so this checks out.

@@MMadjansen You've clearly never been to jamaica lmao

True enough. :)

ive seen that IRL!

I've been that guy IRL... Getting rehired was the worst mistake I ever made.

@@nebufabu got shit from all sides then?

@@nebufabu whats the story? did you at least ask for more money?

@@sasagrcevic475 I did, quite a bit, but let's just say there was a reason they couldn't find anyone else and agreed to that raise... 3 more years of maintaining a website designed in the 90s by a desktop apps guy (and the company's then-current CTO, so of course, his design was just fine) and when we finally migrated it to then-modern frameworks, guess what happened...

Mavenir?

He didn't want to be accused of racism by saying Indian.

You don't promote. Because if you promote him you now have to find someone to fill their spot. If you continue with this "promotion" nonsense further down the chain, that's multiple people that now are in new roles. Simultaneously. Are you underwriting the costs and risks inherent in that? If someone is qualified for a promotion and the right opportunity comes along, hire someone under-qualified into that role, and have this guy fill the shortfall while staying in his current job. With any luck, he'll learn his lesson. lol

​@@AlexKarasev Damn.

did not notice. cheeky.

And don't forget the strong British accent 😄

It gets really scary when bank fraud departments start doing this.

i was wondering what company that was

My goodness I can't stand that company!

​@@yakunats In a couple of years they'll rebrand to something else, like they did with Hermes.

Sounds like a Musk company.

Could be 😂

The Google page actually shows the stock of PYPL

which company? sorry, i'm not the brightest.

@@FunctionGermany Debit system, bad customer service, (name in the background), it's PayPal.

​@@pernydev6844Oh wow, yeah. If you pull up the all-time view, that's Paypal's stock ticker (and the number on the screen is their price as of whenever this was filmed).

I will post this in slack, see how many folks agree. The stock graph checks out.

@@pernydev6844 I though paypal was just for money laundering

All companies have a couple of bad elements. It's when they come together that it crumbles

Microsol, more than any other company except maybe Google, gives the public perception of being less of a single company and more of a collection of autonomous units, fighting each other for resources. Think about how they can tease a new Xbox one week, then the next announce that Game Pass would treat consoles as second-class users. Or how Windows 11 tries desperately to increase adoption... while at the same time unnecessarily upping system requirements and shoving more ads into the taskbar.

A lot of these were near-direct quotes from a recent Adobe leak.

A world where Adobe has kernel permissions and can push realtime prod updates is a nightmare hellscape I’d rather not imagine.

​@@GSBarlevi can't find it. Do you have an article to share on it?

@@floflo1645 Can't share links in comments. The headliner was an Adobe high-up comparing their early termination fees to "heroin."

yes look ahead not where you were at where you at.

Isn't endless meetings a synonym of Agile?

@@robsosno yes we need to know that what we leave undone next since we so busy.