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Being Forced to Say Goodbye (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My company's buyout has been completed, and their IT team is in the final stages of gutting our old systems and moving us on to all their infra.

Sadly, this means all my Linux and FOSS implementations I've worked on for the last year are getting shut down and ripped out this week. (They're all 100% Microsoft and proprietary junk at the new company)

I know it's dumb to feel sad about computers and software getting shut down, but it feels sucky to see all my hours of hard work getting trashed without a second thought.

That's the nature of a corpo takeover though. Just wanted to let off some steam to some folks here who I know would understand.

FOSS forever! ✊

Edit: Thanks, everybody so much for the kind words and advice!

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago (10 children)

My job title is "Linux System Administrator". I'd quit if they tried to make me drop Linux.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I tried to push back, but they are a much larger company and they made it clear that I would be playing by their rules, not mine.

I was thinking of quitting immediately, but at least in my region of the country, the IT market is really rough right now, so I can't afford to be out of work for months.

I won't last long here though. They are half owned by a private equity firm, so they run everything based on the bottom line. Their IT team is understaffed, underpaid, and they are always looking for excuses to lay folks off or fire them. Their turnover rate is pretty high, burnout is rife.

[–] vanderbilt 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Start job hunting now. By the sound of it they are one of those PE firms that zombie walk every acquisition into mediocrity.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 23 hours ago

For sure, I'm on it already.

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