PeriodicallyPedantic

I have to admit I mostly only used it for testing purposes. I worked on a product that integrated with it, and I remember it being frustrating to work with. I forget the details of what frustrated me about it, though.

Laws will differ in different places, but I'm familiar with 3 categories of terminations:

1. With cause (firing)
2. Without cause (layoff)
3. Voluntary (quitting)

When someone is terminated with cause or quits, they are not entitled to severance and they do not collect unemployment insurance. When someone is laid off, the employer is obligated to pay a severence package.

The Amazon focus and pivot program is interesting. That definitely looks like they're bribing low performers to quit, and I smell an ulterior motive. Maybe it's to get them to sign an NDA but I feel like it's to avoid wrongful dismissed lawsuits. Although I suppose why not both?

But they're not gonna offer severence to someone who quits, right?

The wording made it sound like he quit rather than got laid off.

A wonderful product or a wonderful community? It sounds like you're describing the people who were on it and not the platform itself.

What are they gonna do if you refuse to sign? Fire you?

If this guy voluntarily left, then he wasn't getting a severance package that they could withhold (and on that note, this is a good reason to include involuntary severence in your employment contract, if you can negotiate it).

Gross
But considering the current state of Google search, not as gross as it was.

My VPN sometimes sends me reminders and special offers when my contact is almost up, for example. Mobile phone data usage reminders and warnings. Even just reminders that they're going to be charging your card on payment day.

But mainly I don't wanna leave home so paperless has already won for me lol

I assumed this was in the context of paying recurring bills rather than shopping. Agree with you about stuff like groceries.

I mean... The account exists if you log into it or not. You still need to keep track of it so that you're paying into the correct account, and so that you know how much to pay.

Only you now have to talk to a person if you need to check or change anything.

A coder after my own heart. State machines are the bane of my existence.

IMO there are two underrated benefits:

1. It enforces separation of concerns
2. It provides options to OPS.

Designing for micro services doesn't mean you need to deploy it as micro services. You can deploy it as a monolith and configure it too skip the network stack

Now that's the pot calling the kettle black.

What work have you even invested? You've just repeatedly restarted your original stance. But sure, whatever.