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Comment by jchallis | Hacker News Reader

In case someone from Google is reading this: - I am a real person who really manages IT decisions for a real company. - I use Google Cloud Print to keep our zoo of devices happily talking to our Japanese printers in the US and Asia. - You made my day hard by killing this product. There is time that I could have spent with my family or on my health that I will have to divert elsewhere to fix a problem that didn't exist for me yesterday. - My memory is long.

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Why does changing vendors impact your family and health time? Sounds like your employer's expectations may be more of a problem.

Presumably they now have a new business necessary project with a maximum 2 month delivery timeline, over the holiday season. It seems completely reasonable that an IT decision maker needs to keep the printers running?

A sudden, new project during the holiday season would definitely impact my family time at least.

Edit: Apparently they announced this last year, so that seems to make the current situation acute by choice or lack of knowledge.

Many companies have an attitude of "when the work is done, you can go home".

Since the cloud print migration will be more work, rather than OP going home at 4pm to see family and go for a jog, now he'll be staying in the office testing printer setups and going home at 9pm after his children are in bed.

Other companies' sadistic cultures are not really Google's fault, though.

It's known for a year. Why didn't you act since then?

I did not get the memo last year that it was running out.

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