So this is a great example of how to do layoffs wrong. Just tell your employees you can't afford them any more because leadership fucked up, don't lie to them that their one week of work hasn't been good enough.
Unless California has different laws than other work-for-hire states, you don't need to say anything. Your services are no longer required, here's your exit package, have a good day.
The idea that this needs to be a conversation is odd, and many will say opens you up to legal scrutiny. As this case shows.
Yes, they are assholes. But what are we to do with it? This video, unfortunately, does not represent anything particularly out of the ordinary, and shouldn't be taken as "how to handle it" either.
She repeatedly volunteers that she hasn't made any sales, and merely disgorges a wholly subjective review of what she has accomplished... which appears to be nothing. The things she should have hammered them on are
1. No written warnings about performance. Is there a single documented incidence of performance falling short? Likewise, does she have any written accolades from her supervisor? Not that this really matters anyway, especially since she's in the standard 90-day probationary period (which she calls a "ramp-up").
2. The point about her supervisor wussing out and not giving the news himself or herself is valid, but even worse is that these two other people showed up to the meeting UNPREPARED. If they were simply laying her off, fine. No details needed. But since they claimed it was for performance, they invited scrutiny and the demand for specifics... which they didn't bring to the meeting. THEY should be fired for poor performance and embarrassing their firm. If I show up to a meeting in which I'm supposed to give a presentation about something and I shrug and say, "Oh, yeah I don't have any details on that so maybe you should ask later but don't expect an answer," I expect to be fired.
But she strayed from those points and mostly just protested at length that she did "really great."
I guess if the point was to reveal that Cloudflare is run by unprofessional assholes, then I withdraw my question. Otherwise I don't see what the call to action is here, and the promotion of it with breathless headlines like, "RARE footage of a firing!" is dumb.
This is really informative, and the simple FM-synthesis demo confirmed my guess as to what the term meant (since I could never be bothered to look it up). Fun!
Is there a highly-regarded software (or hardware + software) emulator for the DX7?
I would recommend Plogue's OPS7, they have put considerable amounts of time and effort into reverse engineering the original chips. The interface is a little clunky but it sounds fantastic. https://www.plogue.com/products/chipsynth-ops7.html
That's sarcasm, right? Surely you're not lauding this asinine peripheral that is supposed to be jammed into a fragile port to recharge while sticking out like a chopstick waiting to be snapped off.
Surely you're not lauding a near-useless gimmick that inexplicably doesn't work on the (defectively) giant trackpads of Apple's own computers... or most of their iPads.
Im referring to the 2nd gen, never really saw the first gen until now but the charging method now is quite nice.
First gen still is no worse than first-gen Magic Mouse, which launched under jobs though. Which is my main point, I don’t think Jobs was solely responsible for apple’s focus on design
> Near-useless gimmick
Man, millions of procreate enthusiasts would beg to disagree
> doesn’t work on the giant trackpads
Does anyone who stops to think about this for more than 2 seconds actually want this? What would you use it for besides digital signatures? Writing-to-text is just barely usable on tablets, I can’t see it being viable when you can’t see what you’re writing.
>First gen still is no worse than first-gen Magic Mouse, which launched under jobs though. Which is my main point, I don’t think Jobs was solely responsible for apple’s focus on design
The first-gen Magic Mouse used AA batteries and did not have the charging issue of the current Magic Mouse. The second-gen Magic Mouse, with an internal battery and the horribly designed charging port, was released in 2015, 4 years after Jobs died.
Jobs was largely responsible for Apple's obsessive focus on design, even if he didn't design everything himself. He positioned Jony Ive to be #2 at the top of the company, no other company (other than maybe a strict design firm) is going to have a design person be 2nd in command after the CEO. He also famously reviewed each thing that was going out the door and it had to meet his standard of design. This goes far back, here is a story from when they were designing the original Macintosh, they handed the design to Jobs, because he kept rejecting all their designs.
Of course there were misses under Jobs well, no one is perfect. The mouse the shipped with the G3 iMac, while it may have looked good in a press photo, was not great to use. That said, I have a hard time believing Jobs would have let the changing of the first Apple Pencil or the second-gen Magic Mouse out the door. They are so awkward. Even the newest pencil, plugging it in with a cord is weird compared the elegance of the second-gen Pencil.
Jony Ive presided over the worst usefulness/usability regressions and design blunders in the history of Apple. That guy is a pompous hack who, in the end, had no ideas for the advancement of products. His only M.O. was to take functionality away, with the excuse of making whatever the product was "thinner."
For sure, the "Magic" mouse is another Apple entry in the Hall of Peripheral Shame.
"Does anyone who stops to think about this for more than 2 seconds actually want this?"
Really? Have you ever heard of Wacom? They built an entire company on people who want this, and it has been in business for decades. And of course you can see what you're writing, right there on the screen! The surface area of current Apple laptop trackpads is 33% larger than that of a Wacom Intuos tablet: https://i.imgur.com/D8pmsTC.jpeg
It has nothing to do with handwriting recognition, either. That's another area where Apple failed spectacularly to make the Pencil useful. All they had to do is add a single-character writing area to the standard keyboard on the iPad, as was nailed in the '90s by Palm. That way, ALL applications would have immediately have gotten handwriting-entry capability. Instead, Apple left it up to every application developer to implement it separately. Baffling.
Wacom is a totally separate device from a laptop, and can be positioned so that you can comfortably write/draw while looking straight on at your screen.
It's woefully impractical for a laptop, specifically because it CAN'T be flexibly positioned where many people would want it. Plus, you'd have to lug an additional and cumbersome device around with you, occupy a USB port with it, and deal with a wire.
All of that makes the trackpad a much better option.
Sad. Microsoft, after advancing the state of consumer-oriented computing more than anyone else through the '90s, is now a despicable anti-customer troll.
Nothing epitomizes that more than the reduction of all users to a goddamned "Microsoft account" that nobody wants. You can't use or even install Windows now unless you do so as a "Microsoft account," lest you be hounded day and night to log in, log IN, LOG IN WITH YOUR "MICROSOFT ACCOUNT!!!!"
Office365 is subscription trash with hopelessly inept UI. Windows itself is a depressing shitshow of UI defects and... I was going to say half-baked... but in reality NO ideas.
I was a professional developer on Windows from the days of separate 16- and 32-bit versions of Visual C++, eventually leading what was (according to Microsoft, as far as they knew) the largest Visual C++ project of the early/mid-'90s. You could have called me an evangelist for most of their products. I continued using Visual Studio until the mid-2000s, even while working at Apple.
Today I don't have a single installation of Windows running in my home (which is also my business). I'm a pilot, and I want to use MS Flight Simulator, but not even that is enough to get me to buy an Intel box and tolerate the disgusting abuse that is being a Microsoft Windows user. There's simply no excuse for the execrable state of Windows, Microsoft's other product offerings, and the way they treat users. Fuck Microsoft.
Microsoft was never consumer-oriented, it was always a B2B/Enterprise-catering firm. They only tolerate retail customers because they don't want us getting used to something else.
