Matthew Haughey
PagerDuty is laying off 7% of their workforce and the announcement includes a quote from MLK and it's just *chef's kiss* perfect and why the show Silicon Valley is no longer on because there is nothing left to parody about the tech industry https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/improving-pagerdutys-operational-resilience-to-achieve-our-long-term-vision-and-goals/
Improving PagerDuty’s Operational Resilience to Achieve our Long Term Vision and Goals

CEO Jennifer Tejada sent the following email to PagerDuty employees on January 24, 2023.

PagerDuty
Jan 24, 2023 at 6:31pmWeb
Show threadBrolinJan 24, 2023
@mathowie incredible.
Show threadfedward Jan 24, 2023
@mathowie I don’t want to laugh because people are losing their jobs, but
Show threadAaron HuslageJan 24, 2023
@mathowie barf
Show threadb. boltJan 24, 2023
@mathowie "i am reminded by Martin Luther King of where i stand in times of challenge and controversy, and also of where you stand, which is no longer in this office"
Show threadTonyTrink1969 🏳️‍🌈Jan 24, 2023
@bbolt @mathowie
Show threadAaron WilliamsonJan 24, 2023
@mathowie appreciate that they updated MLK's pronouns to be gender neutral.
Show threadDylan WilbanksJan 24, 2023
@mathowie Is this Clickhole
Show threadhalonineJan 24, 2023
@mathowie wow. just wow.
Show threadグレェ「grey」Jan 24, 2023

@mathowie funny how I noticed a HUGE PagerDuty billboard in SF recently.

I wonder how much that g.f.d. awful advertising cost them?

Show threadbEA 🔓Jan 24, 2023
@mathowie I’m sure people of their Atlanta office sees this as the brave and mission lead moment that it is.
Show threadsarah estermanJan 24, 2023
@mathowie thanks i hate it
Show threadTerrafied Kestrel Jan 24, 2023

@mathowie

Too bad I missed this one for my MLK is the Magical Negro to white people essay, @clayrivers 🤦‍♀️

Show threadmatsuko (they/she)Jan 24, 2023
where can I read this?
Show threadMrEric35Jan 24, 2023
@mathowie
<cringe>😬
Show threadSecuropeanJan 24, 2023
@mathowie Lots of ideation went into finding this synergy.
Show threadPete WrightJan 24, 2023
@mathowie holy utter lack of self awareness batman!
Show threadLucky225 Jan 24, 2023
@mathowie well I guess we know where these "leaders" stand? 🤷‍♂️
Show threadCharlie GerardJan 24, 2023
@mathowie 🤦🏻‍♀️
Show threadEvan LightJan 24, 2023
@mathowie @hacks4pancakes Layoffs as a measure of leadership? More like a failure of management.
Show threadEvan LightJan 24, 2023

@mathowie @hacks4pancakes Or written by someone kissing ass for not getting fired.

We need to stop calling them "lay offs". Those happen when companies can't afford to pay people.

These are happening because of copycatting and shareholder pressure.

Show threadAlex PapageorgiouJan 24, 2023
@mathowie We're increasing the company's long term resilience by decreasing reliance on factors such as your job
Show threadAlessio MaffeisJan 24, 2023
@mathowie this is a good time to remind that https://betterstack.com/better-uptime exists, and it’s 1000% better (yes), and less expensive than PagerDuty
Better Uptime

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Show threadbrianpieriniJan 24, 2023
@mathowie oh no
Show threadjohneJan 24, 2023
@mathowie Tarred and feathered is too good for him. Drawn and quartered?
Show threadDJGummikuhJan 24, 2023
@mathowie
well they also stand behind their personel, pushing them off the boat 🤷
@kiview
Show threadJared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Jan 24, 2023

@mathowie This…this isn't a parody? 😵‍💫

Silicon Valley is looking more and more like "Silicon Valley" every day. Hooli would be so proud.

Show threadcolleenJan 24, 2023
@mathowie classic narcissist view point. I’m laying you off but it’s all about me. Ooof.
Show threadAlexJan 24, 2023
@mathowie Wow, the corporate speak is almost making my eyes cross.
Show threadDave SpectorJan 24, 2023

@mathowie 🤮

“Just when you think you’ve scraped the bottom of the barrel, you find you’ve barely scratched the surface.”
— Steve Post

Show threadrealcaseyrollins ✝️Jan 24, 2023
@mathowie your post is hardly coherent. However I did catch something... #SiliconValley is off the air? I thought it was still airing.
Show threadsuldrew 🚲🏳️‍🌈Jan 24, 2023
@mathowie @skinnylatte yikes and lol
Show threadSusan A. KitchensJan 24, 2023

@mathowie
Wow.
To that I will reply with this…

“We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society.”

“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

Show threadKat Traxler  Jan 24, 2023
@mathowie @colonelborkmundus no the did not 🫢
Show thread✨🦝 their noodleship, astrid 🦝 ✨Jan 24, 2023
@nightmareJS @mathowie once again i’m saying when we eat the rich we start with the hedgies 👹
Show thread✨🦝 their noodleship, astrid 🦝 ✨Jan 24, 2023
@nightmareJS @mathowie like isn’t that just awful (understatement)
Show threadKat Traxler  Jan 25, 2023
@colonelborkmundus @mathowie how did anyone ever think “in these times of market uncertainty, you know who’s struggle is really comparable, MLK and African Americans fight for civil rights” Fuiuuuuuck what?
Show thread✨🦝 their noodleship, astrid 🦝 ✨Jan 25, 2023
@nightmareJS @mathowie it’s so cartoonishly bad
Show threadbubbajetJan 24, 2023
@mathowie @pluralistic This is what happens when Liberal Arts education gets ignored.
Show threadrequiem 🦫Jan 25, 2023
@mathowie wow, I always dread hearing from PagerDuty, but now for a whole new reason…
Show threadRebelliaJan 25, 2023
@mathowie this is no longer a dystopian nightmare
Show threadAutonomiJan 25, 2023
@mathowie Brings a tear to the eye
Show threadScarabJan 25, 2023
@mathowie @yvonnezlam *gasp* horrible to drag in MLK on that.
Show threadRachel, Femme Doux NaturelJan 25, 2023
@mathowie ah yes, noted capitalist and champion of the wealthy MLKJr
Show threadPhilip Mallegol-HansenJan 25, 2023
@mathowie I couldn’t watch that show whilst I was at Google, it felt too much like a sad documentary.
Show threadRead along with MattJan 25, 2023
@mathowie "[leader] [they] [they]" omg i cannot even deal
Show threadRead along with MattJan 25, 2023
@mathowie "Hello my name is Jennifer Tejada ([leader]/[they]/[they]), and I am the CEO of PagerDuty."
Show threadBen SalinasJan 25, 2023
@mathowie So you’re telling me this is real and not a bit from HBO’s Silicon Valley?
Show threadjosephbyJan 25, 2023
@mathowie this is why you layoff the comms team last.
Show threadUncle 6 🌁Jan 25, 2023
@mathowie @burritojustice “Siri, how can a person get far enough up their own ass to turn into an actual Klein bottle”
Show threadOliverJan 25, 2023
@mathowie Encountering this slick, insincere dreck, and thinking about how they probably thought they’d *nailed* the tone, I am reminded of something Dr Samuel Johnson said: “Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.”
Show threadCarlos VargasJan 25, 2023
@mathowie I would love to be a fly in the PR room when they came up with that.
Show threadZoeJan 25, 2023
@mathowie MLK MAD LIBS: "The [adjective] measure of a [person] is not where they [verb] in the moments of [noun] and [noun], but where they [verb] in [plural noun] of challenge and [noun]."
Show threadAndrew CantinoJan 25, 2023
@mathowie https://hachyderm.io/@mattstratton/109746773815719846
matty stratton (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Oh my fucking god

Hachyderm.io
Show threaddtrainJan 25, 2023
@mathowie they should have David Guetta playing in the lobby as people are being escorted out of the building https://youtu.be/q5ZgEtgxxg0
David Guetta - ID (Tribute To George Floyd)

YouTube
Show threadlast senpaiJan 25, 2023
@mathowie PagerDuty, the business built on health-checks over Twilio.
Show threadJohnny Wheels Jan 25, 2023
@mathowie the whole thing was super tone def and terrible. “We’re going to let 7% of you go… but we’re also promoting some executives… and here’s a random MLK quote because those always help, right?”
Show threadChris LongshanksJan 25, 2023
@mathowie Woooooow so insanely tonedeaf.
Show threadjalogisch 🤡Jan 25, 2023

@mathowie @kiview

Kind of funny that the leaders are not behind the employees - as those are not mentioned.

Shows to me that loyalty does not need to be with the company. Because the company is only loyal when there is a benefit.

Show threadCiack404 Jan 25, 2023
@mathowie Wow... I really didn't think I could hate PD more than I already did, and yet here we are...
Show threadGreenSkyOverMe (Monika)Jan 25, 2023

⬆️ Image description: I am reminded in moments like this, of something Martin Luther King said, that "the ultimate measure of a [leader] is not where [they] stand in the moments of comfort and convenience, but where [they] stand in times of challenge and controversy."

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