kmshultz

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by kmshultz 4y ago
Yes, DigitalOcean, who laid me off last week along with the entire writing/editing team for DO Community tutorials, also laid off some engineers, including most of the infra engineers, from what I heard. Not sure how they can get along
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Cryptic Google Doc Studied, Helplessly Ignored by Those Who Survive Layoff(medium.com)
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by kmshultz 4y ago
There is a newer portal within the DO Docs site (not the Community site) for similar tutorials: https://docs.digitalocean.com/developer-center/ The content is created by Developer Advocates rather than Technical Writer
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by kmshultz 4y ago
Thank you for this, I had a good laugh. XD
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by kmshultz 4y ago
The funny thing is, a few of us who have been following the ChatGPT frenzy were supposed to have a meeting TODAY to discuss "So, what we gonna do about AI?" Too little too late! :laughcry:
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by kmshultz 4y ago
Kind of you to say. I know many devs have loved our content for a long time. I was one of them, which is the whole reason I joined as a tech writer. I can't claim to have helped create that solid library of tutorials, as I was only at
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by kmshultz 4y ago
Yes, I was a technical writer on the content team. I am hearing that our entire team was laid off. It just isn't a big money-maker in these trying times. More of a cost center, I suspect. It's too bad, as DO tutorials and content
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by kmshultz 4y ago
It was an email from the CEO to my personal email. By the time I received that email, all my IT access was already cut off: no Slack, no laptop login, no VPN, etc.
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by kmshultz 4y ago
Same here. Rolled over in bed to an email from Yancey to my personal email. Went to my laptop, can't log in, Slack is also dead. Early Spring Break!