• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      Good, someone has to think of the poor race car drivers, and their million dollar team.

      • RicoBerto@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        A million dollars is probably just the catering budget, tbh. I don’t even know what this company does, I just saw that no one else had pointed this out. It sounds like I’m lucky to not use their software.

        Every company is just firing employees left and right and I’m not sure what they all expect to happen. I guess just through the magic of AI they can have less workers do more for the same pay. But damn, so many people let go all over the place.

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          They make jira, project management software that is so slow and annoying you’re better off using a chat and shared files on Google drive.

          They also make a bunch of other shitty software but jira is the most famous.

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          I was thinking along the same lines, like they probably spend more on fuel. I remember when Honda pissed everyone off in the 1990s after inflating F1 budgets and then suddenly leaving the sport when the Japanese market crashed. At the time they had Honda factory R&D teams designing and building engines just for F1 teams; that was probably tens of millions a year that wasn’t even part of a team’s budget… in the 80s and 90s.

          Anyhow… F1 teams have a budget cap for several years now. For 2026, it’s $215 million, and that doesn’t include engines, nor driver and team manager salaries.

    • Kissaki@feddit.org
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      Are you serious? That’s insane. I had no idea!

      In February 2025, Williams Racing announced a record multi-year title sponsorship with Atlassian and will compete as Atlassian Williams Racing from the 2025 season of Formula One onwards. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlassian#Sponsorship

      I hope they can drive faster than their software loads content.