<story><title>Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/08/wework-layoffs-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cagenut</author><text>I kinda wish there was a job for like, DevOps Hatchet Men.  I don&amp;#x27;t want to lay people off, but after they&amp;#x27;re laid off I feel like I could probably delete about a million dollars a year worth of their AWS bill right now and they&amp;#x27;d never even notice the stuff missing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Merrill</author><text>I sort of did that for a while. The differences between what management thinks they have, what is actually running, what data centers are charging back, what licenses are being invoiced, what finance is depreciating, and what is actually needed for operations can be astonishingly large.</text></comment>
<story><title>Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/08/wework-layoffs-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cagenut</author><text>I kinda wish there was a job for like, DevOps Hatchet Men.  I don&amp;#x27;t want to lay people off, but after they&amp;#x27;re laid off I feel like I could probably delete about a million dollars a year worth of their AWS bill right now and they&amp;#x27;d never even notice the stuff missing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lprubin</author><text>Sounds like a great consulting niche.  It&amp;#x27;s a simple to understand value proposition and I imagine there is somebody powerful at many successful companies that would love to see the huge server cost line item go way down on their P&amp;amp;L.</text></comment>