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This is shocking.

Why is it shocking? Big tech has thoroughly embraced layoffs and offshoring as a means to cut costs. Execs don’t care if it causes issues at the lower levels of the company. To them it’s just noise from the rabble. If it does cause an issue they’ll just call their buddies at the other Big Corp and work someplace else.

This is a symptom of seeing the whole world through the small narrow lens of "money is everything".

Welcome to big corp with Excel driven decisions, sorry, Google Sheets.

This is sickening

Exactly why one should be loyal to the team, not the employer.

The team members, we might bump into them in another situation.

The company, it is all about numbers and meeting projections.

"Trix"

I've followed Google pretty closely since 2001, and had somehow never encountered that term for matrix/spreadsheet.

I just had a hunch, opened http://sheets.new, opened the developer tools and did a CTRL+SHIFT+F search for "trix".

There were a bunch of CSS and JS hits. 791.

I think Trix is the internal codename for Sheets, like "Kix" is the codename for Docs (similar pile of matches for the term in devtools).

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