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#114I've never worked at a company where I tried to be professional and gave 2 weeks notice and was NOT immediately shown the door (hence I learned to prepare and not be surprised). Does it really happen in this day and age? Don't companies lockout high value employees immediately as a matter of security and anti-sabotage?
correct.
Planning on everyone else being a dick means you end up treating everyone like a dick. It might save you from the few people are _are_ dicks, but in the end you're just fucking yourself. With dicks.
Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
In light of the response, you could even say that mahalo employees might prefer to resign via email rather than to face the full brunt of the response in person, your assumption could easily be right and there might be a good reason for it.
In which case you have an opportunity to wake up the next day, decidedly the bigger person, wholly assured in your decision to leave, and with no regrets about how you did so.
opting to email rather than hand in a resignation is not going to undermine anyone's decision to leave.
Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
In which case you have an opportunity to wake up the next day, decidedly the bigger person, wholly assured in your decision to leave, and with no regrets about how you did so.
opting to email rather than hand in a resignation is not going to undermine anyone's decision to leave.
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Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest
#117Seriously, Jason Calacanis has not done anything considered smart since he sold Weblogs, Inc. to AOL. Other than that he's not a graceful entrepreneur and an attention seeker (I refrain myself from using a harsher term).
1. Mahalo is a top 200 site, over 10M uniques and operationally profitable. 2. Open Angel Forum has been hosting in five cities in the first four months of 2010. 3. I've done seven angel investments including gdgt.com, gowalla.com and blippy.com. 4. TechCrunch50 has made millions of dollars, but more importantly launched amazing startups like Mint.com, Powerset and yammer. 5. This Week in Startups about to have it's…
I'm sure there's more to the story, but you gain nothing by being an arsehole to someone who's put their time and effort into one of your businesses. Even if someone's a grade A walking disaster area, there's more to lose than gain by being shitty with them.
Still, your business, your rules.
Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest
#118http://twitter.com/evanculver/status/12440647847
There's no way I'm doing more work tonight. I'm done. Have to quit kidding myself.
11:12 AM Apr 19th
A day before he sent the resignation email.
Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest
#119Let's be fair here. For all we know, the guy might have done something quite bad. Or not. But if he did, Jason couldn't say so. We just don't know. But what we do know is that this is exactly the kind of half-story that gets people going on forums: an antagonist everyone loves to hate, and structural reasons why we're probably not getting the whole story. Many, many times I've seen users on a forum go on the warpath…
Even if this is the whole story, the pose of righteous anger by many commenters is silly overkill. So, Calacanis got emotional and snippy about losing an employee. It shows he cares. Despite the armchair philosophizing about its effects on morale or recruiting, it might be a net win for the Mahalo team for Calacanis to show a little anger/disapproval/impatience when this happens. You'd think some of the finger-waggin…
Even Steve Jobs was smart enough to use reality distortion rather than lose his temper when someone quit: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even if this is the whole story, the pose of righteous anger by many commenters is silly overkill. So, Calacanis got emotional and snippy about losing an employee. It shows he cares. Despite the armchair philosophizing about its effects on morale or recruiting, it might be a net win for the Mahalo team for Calacanis to show a little anger/disapproval/impatience when this happens. You'd think some of the finger-waggin…
Even Steve Jobs was smart enough to use reality distortion rather than lose his temper when someone quit: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
There are plenty of reports of Jobs berating people mercilessly, and firing people on passing whims.
Compared to that, Calacanis making the resignation effective immediately -- often a good practice for other reasons -- and taking a couple parting potshots at an employee's choice/tenure-length and new employer is mild.