The $32B Financial Colostomy Bag

Oh goody. Some VC suit who couldn’t find his own arsehole with both hands and a fucking map is calling a $32 billion acquisition the “Deal of the Decade.” Well halle-fucking-lujah. I’m sure the quarterly report reads like pornography to these bloodsucking bastards while the rest of us watch another tech company get vivisected for spare parts.

Let me translate this shit from corporate doublespeak: “Strategic consolidation” means firing everyone who knows how the code works. “Operational efficiencies” means replacing the espresso machines with instant coffee and blaming the workers when morale tanks. “Unlocking shareholder value” means the C-suite gets golden parachutes while the engineers get kicked out the door with a two-week severance and a non-disparagement agreement shoved up their jaxie.

Thirty-two billion dollars. You could build a Mars colony for that. Instead, these wankers are buying a company so they can strip-mine its IP, saddle it with debt, and wonder why the product turns to shit faster than a curry after a heavy night on the piss. But sure, it’s the “deal of the decade” because some vulture capitalist can now afford a fourth house in the Hamptons. Fuck right off with that noise.

https://techcrunch.com/video/the-32b-acquisition-that-one-vc-is-calling-the-deal-of-the-decade/

Reminds me of the time BigCorp acquired a “hyperconverged infrastructure solution” for $150 million. The “proprietary technology” turned out to be a single Dell PowerEdge running pirated VMware in a janitor’s cupboard, maintained by a guy named Keith who communicated exclusively through interpretive dance and ominous Post-It notes. They fired the entire legacy ops team to “optimize headcount.” Six months later Keith went on a three-week bender, the server died, and the CFO had to restore the database from a USB stick he found in the parking lot. It was the most competent thing that company ever did.

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