About half of the time the extra box is too big and then not padded correctly causing the contents to bounce around and receive more damage than it would have gotten without the extra packaging.

Don't even get me started on the box in a box in a box I got last week. The building Janitor resents the amount of recycling I put out every week.

WeWork never had any trouble filling it's spaces. There are plenty of companies wanting workspace without paying for a full office. WeWork's problem from the beginning was corporate excesses bleeding profits. You just don't buy corporate jets before the income can support it and this wasn't their only excess

More likely, fears of a recession were a good excuse to cut positions/departments that were just not making a good return on investment. If you make layoffs when times are good you risk bad press about the health of the business, during a recession means you get to blame the economy.

As for IBM, I struggle to understand their long term business prospects. Plenty of places for older people to go, just not tech startups. Banks for instance pay good money for the 60+ crowd. Where I work, there are plenty of people who are older. They are kept precisely because they know more than anyone else about what is going on.

I make as much as the University grads but have no degree so no money savings here. I also have a lineup of recruiters in my voicemail/email/text messages these past two weeks.

I don't know where you got 4 TB per slot. The link on that page points to a list which shows the largest NVME as 12800GB

Did you notice they announced that they aren't cutting any engineering, sales or customer service jobs?

My theory is that downturns are often used as an excuse to cut people that weren't making the company money. If they did this when times were good, the story would be that they are doing badly financially, now they get to blame the overall economy instead.

I guess you never have never worked with somewhere with software that requires a licensed RHEL install to get any support whatsoever. I worked for a place that was forking out for 3 RHEL licenses just because of that and we weren't the worse we heard about.

On top of that, many places know how many software devs RedHat has on staff and pay for support thinking the support from them will be better.

You say that as if I haven't had Chrome drive my machine deep into swap. Thankfully doubling my RAM to 32 GB seems to have put an end to that.

Wow, I can't remember the last time I saw someone admit an error, on the internet. Is that even still allowed?

I wouldn't be shocked if the LPC calls a snap election to take advantage of the CPC weak leadership position. Truedau should be able to pull off another election win by scaring people about Poilievre. I keep waiting for the moment that the CPC remembers most Canadians want fiscal conservatives and not social conservatives.

No kidding. The best part about all of this is that actual porn spammers/dating site scammers are usually not touched by the moderators. Even the people selling $3000 items for $300 don't get touched even if the actual trademark owner complains.

Prime Minister Trudeau tends to avoid wanting to upset anyone so anything he does tends to be watered down so badly it does no real good at all. Things like the airline traveler's protection regulations with so many loopholes the airlines rarely have to pay compensation.

Never thought I would miss Jean Cretien, Paul Martin or even Steven Harper but here we are.

I disagree with that guess only because it would not explain the weird rendering bugs we see in production. The fact that Teams seems to know if it is on the right or left monitor suggests some other hackery