As coronavirus continues to kill layoffs a devastating inevitability across industries, one thing stays obvious: it’s doubtlessly a inappropriate concept to mess along with your IT department — especially if they’re armed with CMS and withering movie references. Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter, owned by Valence Media, realized this lesson this present day after reportedly laying off a collection of workers, along with their IT workers. Presumably, the damaged-down workers exacted their revenge by posting a immediate (however impactful) article to Billboard titled “Billboard/Hollywood Reporter lays off complete IT workers as a result of Covid19.” The article, credited within the byline to “devops,” became accompanied by a timeless report of Animal Home’s Kent “Flounder” Dorfman and a physique paragraph also quoting the movie. It merely and evocatively acknowledged:

“In the wake of Covid19 pandemic, Valence Media has made up our minds to prolong their complete web IT workers. Efficient this present day. The obtain Billboard Charts are in actual fact excellent, so IT workers are no longer wished. Beefy under the influence of alcohol and boring is no reach to undergo life…”

The article, which became also tweeted out by the genuine Billboard epic, became speedy eliminated, even though no longer ahead of catching the honor of readers on social media. What’s more, since the obtain is forever, a file of the article now exists for all to ponder. And if we are able to learn one thing else from this, it’s to obtain into consideration the human impact of profit-driven resolution-making, and to boot presumably to revisit Animal Home within the path of quarantine.

Billboard Faces the Wrath of Fired IT Workers