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Adobe’s employees are typically of the same opinion of the company as its users, having internally already expressed concern that AI could kill the jobs of their customers. That continued this week in internal discussions, where exasperated employees implored leadership to not let it be the “evil” company customers think it is. 

This past week, Adobe became the subject of a public relations firestorm after it pushed an update to its terms of service that many users saw at best as overly aggressive and at worst as a rights grab. Adobe quickly clarified it isn’t spying on users and even promised to go back and adjust its terms of service in response

For many though, this was not enough, and online discourse surrounding Adobe continues to be mostly negative. According to internal Slack discussions seen by Business Insider, as before, Adobe’s employees seem to be siding with users and are actively complaining about Adobe’s poor communications and inability to learn from past mistakes.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I’d just like to know how the same fucking company that makes Illustrator and Photoshop can come up with something as astonishingly shitty as Acrobat.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

Same with Unity's devs. It sucks to watch your life's work being flushed down the drain for stupid grasping at shitty, random fads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Workers learning the news: “Oh, damn. I work for a sh!t company now?!?”

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fuck Adobe. They are effectively a monopoly and are actively exploiting that position. I refuse to use their software, even if it slows me down.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Their PDF signing service has essentially been dead since the government started using Digital sign... now they are bleeding whatever small segments are still left using their service. This won't end well for Adobe PDF products.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I hope we shift out of Adobe completely where pdf is concerned, Acrobat is the first program I've seen with such a massive userbase that's somehow updated to be worse with every passing year. I had to stick to that shovelware for company laptops but I NEVER want to deal with large documents on Acrobat again.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Imagine what projects like GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, Scribus etc could do with a fraction of monthly revenue of Adobe.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

I don't think there any proprietary 3d software, where you can just call dev and he will make it 10 times faster.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oracle and Adobe seem to be the most evil companies, but we should be careful not to anthropomorphise them.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

chiqita says hello

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You know how fucked up your company is when even your employees are mad at you.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's always like that. When the only goal is more growth, the C-Suite will fuck everyone and anything over.

But people gotta eat and be homed, so that won't change soon.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Remember: in most cases the c-suite consider you merely as resources(human) a source of labour.

To them employees are things.

Customers are just a revenue source, they are also just things.

CEO's are just chasing their next quarterly performance bonus.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

No wonder why everyone hates corporate things.

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