Have seen that too. The canned press release from all of them is something like "as part of our continued effort to make the org more efficient we have aggregated tram X with team Y and as a result a handful of roles were no longer needed. Our company remains focused and confident in our growth". Has AI taken over the PR department too?
From what I can see, this is not even about individual performance. It looks like a continuous game of musical chair where an entire team here and there is suddenly decimated or completely removed with non-existent internal communication.
The bigger the company, the more they see people as just a headcount. Your performance doesn't matter, your name is unknown, you're not even a number, you are 1 of x number of y's.
I’m about to throw my google speakers away at this point. I feel like they are becoming more and more useless. Voice commands used to work fine, but lately this is a standard occurance.
“Hey google, turn on the kitchen lights.”
“I’m sorry. It looks like that device hasn’t been set up yet.”
Alexa is the same and used to work fine. My favorite is “Alexa, turn on the fan” turns on the fan in my mother’s room but “Alexa, turn off the fan”correctly turns off the fan in my bedroom. I ended up getting a HomePod and using home assistant to add all my devices to HomeKit. Shit on Siri all you want but at least she can turn the right devices on and off and on first try.
I unplugged mine a few weeks ago. I realized literally the only thing I use it for is occasionally finding my phone.. besides that, it fucks up basically every instruction I give it
I've never before been so glad to read about someone else's misfortune. Mine have been doing this for MONTHS and I thought it was just me imagining things
same. throwing out my speakers as they understand less each day as it feels. now its only a clap light switch and everything else, i at least have to ask 2 times
Every time I hear about some proprietary thing getting effectively bricked by the company that sold them so they don't have to support them forever, I wonder "what did you think was going to happen?"
I hope it's the one's who decided to make it so sensitive. I don't need to be lectured by a fucking robot when I tell it to fuck off. I didn't mean to summon it in the first place now it's just going to take longer to go away.