Oh my fucking god
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
@mattstratton good lord lol what's the competitor to pagerduty? opsgenie? noted for my next role. ;)

@justizin i mean from what I can tell PD is mostly prioritizing some AIOps stuff instead of things like schedules and notifications

I don’t think OpsGenie has had much love since acquisition - same as victorops. So ugh.

@mattstratton ugh fuck. well that's it i'm just never going to be oncall again, for ethical reasons.

@mattstratton @justizin Nagios, Prometheus, and several other high-quality monitoring and alerting systems are free. They are also straightforward to configure and use.

I’ve been using Nagios for many years, and have never seen a reason to replace it with Pager Duty or any other service. I highly recommend it and Prometheus. You’re welcome to ask me any questions about my experience with these things, or about how we use them at my workplace. 🙂

@michelamarie i am familiar, they aren’t one to one... PD is not a monitoring system, it’s a notification tool. It does a lot of things those tools do not.

@justizin So, in your opinion, what’s the critical feature or features that Pager Duty has that other kit does not have?

Maybe the community can fill those gaps at some point, knowing what they are. 🙂

@mattstratton I wish this was a joke

@zippy1981 @mattstratton

Tired: saying the quiet part out loud

Wired: posting the quiet part to the company website and issuing a press report

@kendralittle @mattstratton I HOPE the person who wrote that was someone in marketing who did it as a protest thing knowing it would be terribly recieved
@mattstratton "Refinements" What a load of shit.
@mattstratton
I am not a corporate person so reading this company’s website I cannot for the life of me figure out what the hell they actually do? Aside from ‘ack and own’ of course
@mattstratton could this possibly be any more tone deaf
@mattstratton if these narcissistic CEO’s actually understood the MLK quote they would realize that the measure of history will show they did not stand up to challenges and that they betrayed their employees.
@mattstratton A day ago this would've been a shitpost.
@mattstratton This takes my brain to an interesting and horrible thought... Has anyone measured the impact of sending out an email like that and not actually doing the layoff?
@mattstratton this is somehow less robotic than many of the recent announcements.
@mattstratton @nova Well, isn't that not surprising.
Evan Light (@[email protected])

Just asked ChatGPT to write me an email to address a bureaucratic nuisance. Holy crap. So many of us will need new careers soon.

Ten Forward
@mattstratton all openAI does is show you the most miserable average humanity can come up with, so
@hacks4pancakes @mattstratton Remind me again why we work in this field instead of all just fucking off ans becoming pig shit farmers? I'm having a hard time seeing otherwise today.
@elight @hacks4pancakes @mattstratton this is why I'm over here automating the placement of my Gnome windows with Lua scripts instead of fucking with AI
@hacks4pancakes @mattstratton thats the best description I've heard of AI
@mattstratton it is obvious that gpt-3 don’t know about compliment sandwich 🤣 yet.
@igisho @mattstratton I thought the term was shit sandwich.
@jupitermoon54 @mattstratton that is almost what ChatGpt used. But it should have been: You are fired, but let’s make some nice MLK quote and also we are going to promote and pay rise some managers.
@mattstratton I may just reverse engineer that letter and use it to 'start' a company.
@mattstratton I just reached a new level of disturbed.
@mattstratton Why does it look so plausible?
@mattstratton that’s horrifyingly…spot on?
@mattstratton It's like Pipotron (french, automates waffle speech) but advanced enough to have meaning. I guess that's called progress.
Le Pipotron

Générateur automatique de phrases aléatoires – Phrases creuses, discours pipeau, fin de banquet, introduction ou conclusion de rapport, le Pipotron est l’outil indipensable. Fournisseur officiel de langue de bois

@mattstratton

Proof, if such were needed, that Corporate is composed entirely of soulless empty headed meat puppets who could be replaced with a chatbot, two Furbies and a spreadsheet.

@mattstratton

Exactly the target audience for this new machine. Nailed it.

@mattstratton please don't show this to my HR department
@mattstratton grim meathook future gets grimmer, meatier and hookier as time goes on
@mattstratton this is hilarious 😂
@mattstratton exceptional leadership promotions will get salary increases off the backs of the people that were fired.
@mattstratton my jaw dropped reading the last paragraph. In-effing-believable!