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Re: Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

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Post by ryguytilidie »

wpietri wrote: post #532
x0x0 wrote: post #507

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is easy to be generous with other people's time and money, yes.

Exactly. It strikes me as the same sort of entitlement dynamic that so many open source project maintainers face. "You gave me a free thing? Well it's wrong and you should give me a much better free thing. For free!" I don't mind people wanting things. We all want things. But I think it's a problem when that crosses the line into expectation or demand.

Where exactly do you believe I "demanded" anything? I simply mocked YOUR demand (funny how this ended in me getting criticized for being demanding...) if someone dare even ask who these founders are, they must give her a six figure sum...

Re: Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

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Post by ChristopherE »

aaron695 wrote: post #152
choiwisely wrote: post #91

> Employees and investors absolutely need the right to know about the people doing this "Michael" the CEO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacchae1981 "Charlie" the CTO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/albrown "Jessica" the CMO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tess-stevens-28bb9138 Company: http://www.wrkriot.com/ + https://www.linkedin.com/company/7587861

Witch hunting. You don't know the real story, especially just how 'evil' Jessica is.

I actually feel sorry for the poor girl. She's very, very young and she's suddenly been thrust in a circumstance where she has to decide whether to be loyal or bail. And she's probably getting paid (according to other stories posted).

So here's this kid faced with the choice of basically being homeless or becoming WrkRiot's version of the Minister of Information.

And then the deluge of hate and venom spewed at her direction not just her role at her company, but personally as well. She not only protected her personal Twitter but has now changed it trying to hide.

Yeah, I feel sorry for her. She's a kid who got in over her head and now she's reaping the consequences of those choices.

Re: Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

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Post by ryguytilidie »

gotrecruit wrote: post #542
ryguytilidie wrote: post #505

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right, we should never ever do the right thing and just live in fear.

nah you're right, we should all be generous and give all YOUR money and things away. not our stuff though, we wanna keep those. let's just give away YOUR money.

I know that this is hackernews and being super obtuse and snarky trumps logic at all times, but uhhhh, where exactly do you believe I implied other people should be giving their money away?

Re: Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

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Post by ryguytilidie »

wpietri wrote: post #499
ryguytilidie wrote: post #467

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So your argument is that this person has no rights to know who this person who is scamming startup employees is and that the "reasonable" action they should take is to offer $100k. You can't seriously believe this makes sense, right?

I cannot quite fathom the confusion of ideas that results in your comment here. What does a "right" to know something mean? Apparently you think that kelukelugames has the right to force Penny Kim to make public statements that would put her at the risk of a major lawsuit. Can kelukelugames compel this of everyone who has a bad employer experience? By what mechanism is the right enforced? What are the penalties if ke…

So to recap:

"I cannot fathom what you mean"

"Apparently you think that kelukelugames has the right to force Penny Kim to make public statements that would put her at the risk of a major lawsuit. Can kelukelugames compel this of everyone who has a bad employer experience? By what mechanism is the right enforced? What are the penalties if kelukelugames right to know is not enforced?"

Wait so is it that you don't understand my point or that you literally are making up my point? I never even made the slightest implication I believe any of that and you made up this entire system of beliefs for me. This is insane. Stop.

"I think it's ungracious to look at a gift and say, "YOU OWE ME MORE!""

Oh hey, another thing I didn't do! Fun! But yeah, you're right, this is unreasonable! You know what is reasonable though? Anyone who even dare ask a question should be forced to pay a six figure some because some guy on the internet said so and really that is it.

I'll let you get back to mocking behaviors you made up in other sub comments. Thanks for your contribution.

Re: Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

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Post by ryguytilidie »

x0x0 wrote: post #494
ryguytilidie wrote: post #467

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So your argument is that this person has no rights to know who this person who is scamming startup employees is and that the "reasonable" action they should take is to offer $100k. You can't seriously believe this makes sense, right?

Just to be clear, your offer is this ex-employee possibly gets to pay a $x00k legal bill for your convenience, right? Read about, eg, what happened to Mother Jones when a billionaire sued them. It's easy for one person with more money than the other to impose huge costs in our legal system.

I guess I'll give a non sarcastic reply even though I didn't think it would be necessary to give your obviously rhetorical, snark question that had no connection to reality:

"Just to be clear, your offer is this ex-employee possibly gets to pay a $x00k legal bill for your convenience, right?"

No.

Re: Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

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Post by dang »

blumentopf wrote: post #237

It was done in an afternoon according to its creator: https://mobile.twitter.com/WrkRiot/status/769357556762324992 https://mobile.twitter.com/tessstevens/status/76935690644803...

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12395442.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12380925 and marked it off-topic.

Re: Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

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Post by dang »

adkshirsagar wrote: post #224

Tess is one angry content writer: 3. Be realistic about what you can and can’t do in a day, due to your sleeplessness. Take it easy when you’re sleepless. A lot of automobile accidents occur due to tiredness too, so if you can, try to stay off the road. If you’re hella alert for your commute, don’t chance it by doing something extra. Be responsible, idiot.

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12395442.
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