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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • What they don’t advertise is how many of those “new” subscribers are actually from their “emerging” markets such as India, where a subscription price is peanuts. Also, im fairly certain these numbers are intentionally skewed to paint a better picture as they lump in all the “free” accounts people get with their other subscriptions.

    I get Paramount+ free with Walmart+. I get Hulu/Netflix/AppleTV with Tmobile Mobile. I get Max with ATT Fiber.

    I’m sure that these streaming companies have more new subscribers when they literally give it away and simultaneously strangling their existing consumers. It’s more of a question of how long is it sustainable for them to raise prices every time they’re not going to have a record quarter.




  • The entire pandemic, our security operations team got constant commendations for how rapidly we scaled up, and they touted the increased productivity we had WFH. I was officially reclassified as a remote worker at the start of Covid.

    Then we got a new manager after 2 years who decided everyone needed to RTO “as needed”, then monthly, then weekly.

    My disabilities and medication prevents me from safely operating a vehicle to commute and my respiratory disability puts me at an extremely high risk of complications from Covid (was bedrested for 3 days from Covid, took almost a month to mostly recover, after multiple booster shots).

    Tried to get accommodation, which I had never had to formally get before. Was surprisingly easy to get from HR, but my manager on the other hand made my life hell.

    My manager, though, pulled out all the stops.

    • He submitted a “request for family leave” for every workday that I was working from home instead of the office while I was working through HR accommodation request process. which I only found out about after HR mailed me a letter formally denying the requests.
    • Then my manager straight up told me, “I think the only reason you put in a request for accommodation is to avoid coming into the office”
    • Manager would “Forget” to invite only me to meetings, when others that were WFH due to illnesses like Covid would get an invite.

    Jokes on them, though, I left with a very short notice, little to no documentation on key projects that I was the sole driver and maintainer on. Literally left 2-year project with 2 pages of documentation that weren’t even up to date.

    • Went from making $100K total comp to over $150K total comp.
    • Insurance is kickass, talking like $400/m medication only costing $15/m with no deductible.
    • Nice RSU package, 60k over 4 years
    • No after-hours or on-call, no SLAs