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‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video::“I've seen better acting by hostages in direct to DVD movies,” one anonymous worker wrote about the video.

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[–] Nath@aussie.zone 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The one time I moved a data center, we did it in two trucks for this very reason. Of course, it wouldn't have been the whole organization lost, we had more than one data center. But yeah - the two planes part of this story makes complete sense to me.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I feel like the part about developing two different systems to apparently do the same thing, was much stupider.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

The planes were protection against an incredibly slim chance considering how incredibly safe air travel is (dramatically more likely to lose them in a truck accident on the way to or from the airport than on the plane), while the two different systems were guaranteed to be a massive waste of resources and time