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> Google announced cuts within its Users & Products team, which is responsible for addressing user complaints regarding its consumer services

TIL that Google actually had a team addressing user complaints

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Seems like a reasonable place to cut staff since they don't address any of them.

They were replaced by useless bots long time ago. These guys must have been coasting for years before someone discovered them

On a Friday afternoon after a very long week, this gave me a really nice chuckle to end the week on. Thanks!

> I looked into it more deeply and I found that apparently what happened is that he was laid off five years ago and no one ever told him, but through some kind of glitch in the payroll department, he still gets a paycheck. So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch.

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