I hope WordPress (and Automattic) turn the ship around but its not looking good at this point.
Still, I'm concerned too. But I guess only time will tell...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1glejno/comment/...
...1 month later...
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69221176/64/wpengine-in...
Hard to read further than that…
Who among us can really say they haven't gone off the deep end, burned every drop of good will that ever existed towards them and their projects, sued a competitor and got hilariously burned by the judge, all while burning hundreds of millions of your companies value (blackrock marked them down 10%, which is 750 million)
This is just a normal thing that happens. It could have happened to anyone.
Let that sink in. They're not even willing to <<sell>> old laptops, they would rather scrap them and contribute to pollution and overall waste.
However what large companies do is to get an agreement with a refurbishing company, which will collect and refurbish them and and pay the corporation some share.
This works in some mix calculation - the well treated machines can be sold well, some machines can be used to reuse some parts and some machines are nothing but cost for disposal.
One choice won't get you fired, the other might save you a bit of cash.
> A large bunch of big companies, including some of the biggest on the planet don't even sell past-end-of-life laptops to their current employees.
It's good that Automattic is doing it, I was wishing it was an industry standard procedure, for all past-end-of-life hardware, not just layoffs and not just laptops.
Right now FAANG, for example, which you'd expect to have the very best of everything, as far as I know don't give old laptops (and other old hardware) to employees, they don't even sell them. They send them to be recycled or whatever, but the best action is to reduce and reuse, recycle should be the last option.
Plus an employee is likely to be willing to accept their old device since they know it's performance and general behavior.
You can wipe them fully (which would be the recommendation for MacBooks) and remove just work-installed apps on an iPhone.
Is "please arrange for a courier to retrieve it" not the end of your obligations?
There are questions online about "what if a former employee doesn't return their laptop." They almost always end with "send a threatening letter in legalese." They stop after that because the the next step is get a $300 per hour lawyer involved for a $600 laptop.
I still have the laptop. And a hard copy of the emails.
Also, as an aside, it is ABSURDLY easy to bypass MDM and DEP on a Macbook Pro, even a later M series laptop. Absurdly so (anyone here could do it in about a minute or less, and have a de-MDMed, fully updatable, no weirdness laptop. Theoretically).
I wish more did; it really is such a small goodwill gesture to departing employees.