Edit/note: I probably didn’t make my comment very clear. I’m aware it’s 1600 being laid off. More that I didn’t realise that Atlassian had 16k people in total. 16,000 people making their products progressively worse.
Even if their company only had 1600 ppl, I’d still say they were wasteful.
About 16k workers? How!?
What a waste of human effort, time and resources. All to make a few bad products, worse.
Indeed, that’s why I mentioned a PC monitor first
Well what about a PC monitor? You can get u to like 43" and beyond. Obviously they are great for gaming as well.
The other very impractical mention - after TVs starting adding ads, cameras and microphones, I switched to a 2nd hand projector. Most have no smart features.
All you need is a white or off- white wall to protect on to. And the ability to block some light coming into the room.
Downsides:
Some can project from a coffee table.
For tv series and YouTube like content, I use a laptop. Then for big movies, I use the projector and 5.1 sound system (mostly 2nd hand as well.)
Same thing with me remembering names.
If I meet someone new, and they tell me their name, 95% chance I’ve forgotten it within seconds. It gets awkward after a while, so often I ask them what their surname is, then go look them up on say LinkedIn (or in the past - Facebook.)
Great with faces. But I even forget the names of super famous actors and musicians. Then I forget the name of a film they’ve been in, so I have to ask my wife.
My brain then has to go through this process of where I describe a film that the actor was in, and or the name of the character.
Or forget the film name, but know the character’s name.
E.g. Me - “Err Severus Snape”.
Wife - “you mean Alan Rickman”
Me - “Yeah, but he’s a terrorist, who’s taken over a skyscraper.”
Wife - “Die Hard”
Me - “But not Alan Rickman’s character. The main guy”
Wife - “Bruce Willis?”
Me - “OMG yes, Bruce Willis, how did I forget his name!”
It’s also the names of places I’ve visited as well. Might have been there 100 times, but it’ll just drop out of my memory at random.
“What’s the name of the place where we met all those dogs. Has a Waterfall. Might have been during summer?”
I hate it. Could describe every detail of someone or a place. Names - almost never remember.
From what I’ve learnt, it’s grapes (raisins, sultanas etc) that you should be worried about feeding to your dogs.
They are very toxic and tend to do permanent damage even in small amounts, particularly to the kidneys.
This is just one product/service that PwC has provided to the UK Government, there have been countless more. It’s a drop in the ocean of wasted money.
But the Government isn’t being hoodwinked. It’s by design. Ministers need big departments and big budgets to boost their profile. PwC massively overcharge, so ministers can have their big budgets.
It’s win win. Only people that lose, are the tax payers.
PwC almost always subcontract, who then subcontract again. The people who actually did this work probably got 45k.
Subcontractors like companies like PwC, because they have access to Governments and multinationals and win contracts that boost the subcontracters’ profile.
How do I know? I worked at a subcontracting consultancy.
It’s not just PwC. It’s all the big Accounting Firms. It’s Capita etc.
This chain does “medium rare” cookies.
https://www.benscookies.com/stores/
They normally bake them fresh. Difficult to beat warm gooey cookies.
Link to the pdf itself
Product list starts on page 37.