As sure as eggs is eggs..

.. somebody will call me or reach out via LinkedIn to ask if my employers (or soon to be former employers) need X, Y or Z services.  Or the "buy our tat" sales pitch as I call it.

Firstly, cold calls like this rarely, rarely lead to sales (or even an evaluation).  Secondly, I'm being made redundant alongside 36 other people.  It is public knowledge (see social media and many games sites reporting on it).  What does that say about the general state of a company and its finances?  Finally, why are you calling me on my personal mobile number?  I haven't given you permission. 

I had THREE people reach out to me today (two by phone) to sell their tat.  The first was asking about our use of Kubernetes in the business.  The second one hurt: it was Cloudflare.  I had recently applied for a position there and I had thought it was somebody from their hiring team to tell me that they wanted to speak to me about the job and availability, etc.  No.  It was about how they're working with more game companies and to help with zero trust access (effectively a VPN replacement - used this back at KPS for a client and it was very good).  

Finally, somebody from Kandji sent me a LinkedIn message wanting to know who the best person was at my company who manages MacOS/iOS devices because they wanted to sell us their MDM product.  I explained everything to them and blocked them.

I shall leave you with this (being a fan of Gilbert & Sullivan).  I'm making my own little list.