That’s not how accountability works…
Accountability would be lowering your own pay in order to keep your workers and admit you did this because others shouldn’t have to suffer for your mistakes.
That means he fired himself too, right?
… Right?
“I declare accountability!”
After paying $720/yr, then $840, then being told it would be over $900 this year, I wasn’t really happy about the cost of using Dropbox. But it’s been rock solid for many years and was heavily integrated into my company’s workflow, so I smiled and bent over.
Until they took away the unlimited storage. I was using 31TB, and they wanted to put me at 15TB with no option to upgrade even if I wanted to.
I already had an on-site NAS, so I bought another for $3k (with drives) and asked a family member in another state to house it. I’m using Resilio to sync everything. It’s been backing up for a couple of months and probably has a couple more to go. So far I’m happy with the decision.
I have to imagine I’m not the only one making this move. Even if they fix the problem, I’m not going back. It’s far cheaper to keep a customer than to win a new one. Hopefully they learn their lesson.
Narrator: They won’t.
Is this for personal or professional? I have a small server (few TB) and I’m amazed the immense amounts of data some people hoard for fun. I always thought it was mad to keep movies, until I tried to get the original lion king on my native language and decent quality and it took me days to find. Won’t delete that one
It’s both. My company is nearly twenty years old and I have an archive of everything I have ever done. … And a plex library.
“Full accountability”, as in, they’re still fired, he still have his big paycheck and assorted bonuses, and the more general “fuck them” attitude will remain.
That’s not accountability, that’s shitting on people and smiling about it.
As a CEO. His public opinion is already dogshit, might as well own it.
Sure, I’m an asshole, I did that. Sorry, it is what it is.
think they mean he took the full accounts
That is the opposite of taking accountability though…?
Yes, but only if you don’t speak C-Suite.
He’s taking full accountability by giving himself a larger raise.
I’m sure it’ll be their best quarter/year of all time but the cut would be because they didn’t meet prediction levels, because if you’re not exceptional you’re dead weight these days 🙄
I looked out of curiosity, they’re actually not doing well, revenue shrinking quarterly. Seems like other players are eating their lunch. Makes sense really, 10-15 years ago Dropbox was innovative but now? There’s like 25 other cloud drive providers. Dropbox isn’t really offering anything unique now, they’re just a commodity, and they can’t meet the package deal pricing of competitors (like Google drive being included with Google Apps, or iCloud Drive being included with Apple One).
It’s not sustainable. Hooboy we’re in for some interesting times.
wow even more meaningless than free lunch coupons, way to go
But, he hasn’t taken any responsibility for the years of scamming new customers with bait and switch schemes. They haven’t even changed their deceptive sales tactics. They are still a shitty, deceptive mega-corp that thrives on theft and lies.
If you are looking for an alternative to a mega-corp for secure, sharable online storage, I have used sync.com for a few years now and am very happy with them.
Funny story, those guys lost ALL my data a few years ago.
These services are so sketchy. Google Drive was telling me everything was synced for months, yet was syncing nothing. I was on a paid plan. There was no customer support. I think I tried everyone at some point. They all suck. Sync hasn’t fucked me over yet, but I will not be surprised when it happens.
The dropbox guys or the sync guys?
Sync.
He’s scheduled a ball busting public ball kicking as punishment. He takes full accountability.
It’s easy to take full accountability for no consequences.
Should there be consequences? Layoffs are a normal response to a lack of business. Exorbitant CEO pay is a separate issue, it should be reduced even before people are laid off.
In most states where unions are not overregulated like in the US, a layoff has at least the consequence of substantial severances, and the business being unable to hire back for the positions it just laid off without incurring very significant fines.
So if he’s taking full accountability, who’s the new CEO of Dropbox? /s
Dumbass.More and more I’m appreciating my decision to selfhost Nextcloud when I decided to start moving away from Google. All nonsense like this affects for me personally (should Dropbox crash and burn) is some redundant backups.
