A notice was sent out today that all Gracenote engineers are being locked out of production accounts. The claim is to test system robustness, but it feels a lot like damage mitigation and to prevent people bringing down production systems when they get their layoff notices.
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This here's trimmin' the fat before squeezin' out Gracenote. Gracenote can be sold at a profit to service the debt. Companies are interested in datasets it possesses unlike made up numbers with fluffy words.
They're worried that stressed engineers might wreck fragile production systems. They aim to make documentation mandatory for engineers who aren't keen on it, all in the name of this initiative
They could be seeing how the business runs without us engineers before they decide to lay off?
I've been thinking about this ... they used to say the weakest security link is the employee (phishing etc). So when layoffs first started last Jan., employee accounts were gone within minutes/an hour of the "surprise" layoff. I was in the middle of a lot of work when laid off but my manager just shrugged when I said incredulously "Did you say today was my last day?". There was nothing I could do, my account was gone. Didn't have to document or train anyone, which was a great relief. Now employees being laid off are forced to train their replacements for a couple of weeks and receive less severance. That cultivates a different attitude.