6 chapters across the catalog
The hosts revisit a viral video of a Cloudflare employee being fired, incorporating feedback from listeners about tech industry sales cycles and severance practices. The discussion covers the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in tech layoffs and the logistics of "stacked ranking" performance reviews. One listener shared an anecdote about firing 76 people simultaneously on a single Zoom call.
Sir Tim of House White criticized the government's reliance on "Commercial Off-The-Shelf" (COTS) software, citing the SolarWinds hack as a primary example of the risks. He noted that the USDA spent $500 million on a failed SAP implementation due to the inability to inspect source code. The segment also touched on the political strategy of using COVID-19 to justify massive federal spending.
Dutch Producer Donations and SAP Consulting Call-Outs
Ron Noren, a listener from the Netherlands, donates to the show and asks the hosts to "hit his co-workers in the mouth" for not contributing. The hosts jokingly call out specific SAP consultants for being "douchebags" who have failed to support the value-for-value model.
Donors from Florida, Wisconsin, Australia, and Pennsylvania are acknowledged. One listener discusses moving to Colombia for an SAP consulting gig, while another reminisces about the host's hair in Philadelphia.
Corporate Sponsorship of Climate Summit, One World Government
Major corporations including Coca-Cola, BMW, and SAP are identified as primary sponsors and participants in the Copenhagen climate conference. The discussion posits that the Copenhagen Treaty aims for global governmental control over finance and climate, effectively transferring national sovereignty to a centralized world body.
John C. Dvorak recounts attending a 10th-anniversary party for NetSuite, a company he describes as "SAP in the clouds" for small to medium enterprises. The conversation shifts to Dvorak's persistent bandwidth issues on Comcast, noting the irony that their connection is often better when Curry is in England. Dvorak mentions his intention to have Comcast monitor his five-megabit upload stream to diagnose the warbling audio quality.
