• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    I think upon closer inspection you might find that CS’es primary duty is upholding the interests of its shareholders, not the customers.

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      I’m sure there’s a lot of CS employees that would disagree with that, unfortunately there’s probably not much they can do about it.

      I was just a few days ago giving my two weeks notice exactly for that reason. I’m getting so fed up with capitalism and companies working for the vultures who give zero fucks about what you do or whether you do it well or not, prioritizing profits over actually doing your job well. I don’t care about money, I worked in cybersec out of principle, to help people with their security. I don’t really care about money, as long as there’s job to be done for someone, I don’t really care if the project I’m working on is super profitable for me, as long as it at least breaks even. But no, we had to cut corners, basically scam our customers by selling products we had no qualified people for who barely scraped by enough results for the customer to not notice it. Non-existent R&D or training, because several milions of anuall profit are not enough. Fuck all of them, if I’m ever going to work again in cybersec, it will be a non-profit.

      This OP’s article infuriates me, the nerves they have to demand more money for what’s entirely their failure, which they also directly cause in every company they touch. I’m sure that the fact that the failure was so devastating for most companies is also by large margin fault of their investors, some of which are probably also part of this lawsuit, that blocked investment into disaster recovery plans or backups, because their millions of profit per year felt low.

      I feel like I’m getting pretty radicalized recently, ugh.

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        I feel like I’m getting pretty radicalized recently, ugh.

        Joking aside, this place is actually pretty central, politically. It’s the rest of the world that went on a capitalist assholes spree.

        (Edit: and honestly, I suspect we will learn there’s a lot of billionaire-funded bots making us feel like the world’s opinions changed.)

        “Let’s just accept each other’s pronouns while holding billionaires accountable for their actions” shouldn’t be considered radical ideas, at all.

        And yeah, fuck all of these investors. They’re effectively suing the real workers who were left holding the bag after the investors “line go up forever” bullshit came to roost.

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        I have no objections to your view for how things should be. It’s definitely not how they are and I think it’s important for people to realize what the reality is for any change to happen.