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‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push
(www.theguardian.com)
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I’m amazed they had 1600 employees to begin with. I guess it takes a lot of resources to make something suck as hard as JIRA
3 coders and 1597 managers.
Who else is going to put the sidebar as top bar, and then switch them back a couple years later?
At least 100 of those employees implemented the feature to autocorrect JIRA to Jira, just to be haughty insufferable ass.
The irony is that I typed JIRA in lowercase and my phone autocorrected it to JIRA
They renamed "project" to "space", so that it's harder to find what you are looking for.
They renamed "ticket" to "work item" to "issue". (We all still call it a ticket)
Stories? Events? Kanban?
Fuck you, I need a text box, date field and some box to tick that says I'm done.
All this so that some VP with their thumb up their ass who spends 2/3 of the year in Florida knows I'm working!