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Have we reached "The Producers" level of capitalism where someone has figured out how to make more money from a company tanking than from it succeeding? CrowdStrike, Twitter, Coyote Vs ACME...
Either we have a series of complete buffoons in charge of companies, or someone has found a way to profit from failure. I'm not sure which is worse.
We've been there for a while. Not what happened in the op, but a leveraged buyout into asset stripping the company and closing it down is a classic combo since the 80s. It's what all the "management consulting" firms that popped up around that time did
Why not both. Think about it, one is the solution to the other.
Nice slap in the face.
It's just one ~~banana~~ global computer outage, Michael. How much could it cost -- $10?
The fact that they even fucked up an insultingly low priced voucher is impressive. They keep showing their incompetence I guess lol!
I'm fairly sure the vouchers are sponsored, they're so low it's essentially advertising for Uber Eats
Someone has taken up Musk's challenge for a "destroying an established company any % speed run."
Can't wait for the summoning salt video
Probably would've been better to not issue that at all.
$10 wouldn't even cover 10 minutes of admin time to fix the problem. It's honestly a bigger insult than nothing or just flipping the bird.
I just got hit with a really weird edge case and just barely resolved a 2 day 911 to recover. During this time we likely spent at least 10 million and that's not even the primary incident.
Not to mention this "apology" has profit for Uber built into it. Or serves as a marketing campaign for them, depending on what kind of deal they offered them to use Uber gift cards for this.
Like with $10 not even being enough to order much of anything, Uber could probably still come out ahead of they offered them at less than half of the "face value". I regularly get offers for more than $10 off other food delivery services just to sign up, so I wouldn't even rule out Uber offering to do this for free just for the marketing.
Like I ignore those other offers but had to think about this one before I realized it was just as ignorable because the idea of it being "compensation" made it seem more worthwhile than a marketing giveaway would be.
Plus, I bet there's an agreement to not sue baked into this offer.
It also wouldn't cover a meal from Uber Eats.
Definitely worse than nothing.
A sandwich is $12-15 these days. That doesn't even include the service fee or the driver's tip.
Especially since it's a gift card not money
this genuinely seems satire theres no way
Reality is a simulation and someone outside of it is fucking with us until we realize the truth. It's the only explanation.
Wow $10. Mom can finally get that operation she was waiting for, before all the nurse stations BSOD’d.
Wow... fuck....
Is there a term for this? Giving someone something and then taking it back? I mean, there's "Indian Giving", but I want one that isn't racist, outdated, and based on a poor understanding of US History?
Short-term gifter
You misspelled long term grifter
But “Indian Giving” as a concept was just a way to excuse giving the indians a deal then renegging on it everytime the wind blew. Classic projrction propaganda before it was invented by ivy leauge schools.
I believe that "Indian Giving" is sourced in a cultural misunderstanding between Indigenous and European societies. Indigenous societies were reciprocity based, so giving gifts should be reciprocated with a gift of like value to strengthen relationships, or increase honour (social standing). The Europeans were working in a patron-client system so a gift was seen as a way of purchasing access to power through a patron. The Europeans thought the Indigenous people were paying for access to power (like a tributary), so there's no expectation of returning a like gift. The indigenous people thought they were entering into a mutual relationship, and when a like gift wasn't returned that was seen as reneging, so they took back their 'offer'.
Glad to have an anthropologist kick my ass.
Ill ask around local MMA gyms
Indeed, that's why I was asking for a non-offensive version of the term to apply when people actually give you something and take it back.
If there’re no other alternatives, then I propose that going forward the new term for this should be “Crowd Striking”
I feel like CrowdStrike did some much groundbreakingly stupid shit that this term will be too ambiguous...
In terms of PR, this is literally worse than doing nothing
Reminds me of the pizza party my call center threw once. We had to pay for the pizza and bring our own drinks
Every party at my last job was a potluck. Except the Christmas party. The Christmas party was secretly mandatory though.
Wow, so the 'pizza party' was basically a pizza pot luck?
Yes, to be fair they did the same with the new years party, they'd do a collection between the employees to hire a place
Mind you there were around 300 employees in the company this is not a mom and pop shop we're talking about
That’s when you bring a handle of vodka and piss all over the call center yelling “here’s my drink!”
That seems to be their modus operandi...crowdstrike literally worse than doing nothing
Truer words could not be spoken.
