I see, thanks for that helpful context, obviously I hadn’t heard of him.
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Cartridge Crusader?
Must be a fan of vape pens. Couldn’t possibly be threatening to shoot people.
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Still - he’s more than half a dick.
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Yeah, no doubt. I also don’t share his joy over people being hurt by high grocery prices, just because some of those people are MAGA.
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Yeah, his “happiness” made me feel ill.
The agricultural workers along with all the non-obscenely wealthy folk will suffer, not just the merkin von bankrupt voters, you dickhead.
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For those of you who know where I work, this might give you a chuckle.
As with all traditional media companies, let alone tech companies, the C-Suite here are irrationally enamoured with the buzzwords of Cloud, AI and Automation, and have been buying into these services then reducing headcount among the staff, because they believe that this will save them money.
To that end, outside of the specific Avid production asset management system I take care of, they have been moving all other video assets for all other departments to a Cloud and Premiere based “workflow.”
This hinges on a third-party asset management system that bills by compute and egress charges, itself relying on AWS hosting, because it apparently increases flexibility and the ability for people to work on projects utilising this media around the world (in reality, this simply doesn’t happen, and this media is all utilised only by our regional office.)
Last week someone forgot to pay a bill, and users that rely on the Cloud-based workflow lost access to all of their media.
My team of editors using the entirely on-prem Avid environment continued to work unhindered.
Yet at the same time, because they’re not used to how much TV production costs, middle management took unbrage to how much Avid wanted to charge them for continued support.
So while all of my stuff works on permanent licences, if hardware fails now, we no longer get next-day replacement, and are charged a premium.
To be honest, ultimately, I suspect the aim is to move away from video entirely, as it’s been a widely publicised failed experiment here, and the company has lost a shitload of money from trying to enter a market they have no experience in.
This probably means that in the long-term, my position is also probably at risk.
But I can still be happy that this organisation is losing money hand over fist due to bad decisions by idiot executives.
And of course, despite all of these decisions having been made by the C-suite, it’s the people who actually make the content they sell that lose their jobs, despite their combined wages being merely a fraction of even a single executive’s.
LIke I say, if you know where I work, all of this should bring you no small amount of pleasure.
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I don’t, but was still an interesting read.
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Am I correct in remembering it’s a “news” organization?
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Exactly 
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That really gave me a flashback about Affirmative Action…
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Articles like this need to be memeified, made into stickers and yeah, stuck everywhere.
Why White Women Benefitted The Most From DEI Programs
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