Unless something big changed since I left two years ago, the org chart is totally visible to the entire company, and so are levels except when someone explicitly opts out (most do not bother).

Are you knocking the knockers? No one is suggesting they be arrested. They're just being ridiculed.

Pretty uncommon at tech companies, but it's entirely based on the company's policy. The company can fire you at any time (as long as it's not one of several specific bad reasons like racial discrimination), but it's the company that employs you, not your manager. So only the company can fire you.

Generally big tech companies don't give your manager the authority to blindly fire you, but only because that's a decision the company made.

My former boss too! That message was sort of the beginning of the end for the trust I had. Very disappointing.

Yeah but it's a lot easier to not care.

Yeah, in corporate world, at least you're paid to not care, and can change jobs easily. In academia, you're paid shit, and changing labs is not nearly as easy.

What I tried, in a similar situation, was being clear that I did not support the company or its leadership and for them to never contact me again. It worked.

She didn't.

eh?

It's about calculating the 9s in your uptime. But 365 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 0.000001 == 31s (did I get that right?)

Related to Amazon's SLA

Pretty low chance that the status page is automated, especially via health checks. I imagine it's a static asset updated by hand.

Or the service that updates the status page runs out of us-east-1.

It has customer relationship implications. I guarantee you it is updated by a support agent.

Little known fact: "Bob Dole has died" were his last words.

For better or worse, the reputation for referring to himself in the third person is one he shares with Julius Caesar.