Hire Family People

sanj wrote: post #3

veritas wrote: post #2

I'm not complaining but is it 37signals week?

I believe that David came away from Startup School with a heap of new ideas that he's been talking about back in Chicago.

I think a lot of people came away form Startup School with the idea they want to hear more from dhh.

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Post by jimbokun » Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 10:02 PM UTC

sanj wrote: post #3

veritas wrote: post #2

I'm not complaining but is it 37signals week?

I believe that David came away from Startup School with a heap of new ideas that he's been talking about back in Chicago.

I believe he has decided to take the opposite position to pg on every point about how to start a business and see how well he can argue it.

Which is a healthy thing for Hacker News, I think, getting other perspectives.

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Post by vlad » Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 10:23 PM UTC

veritas wrote: post #2

I'm not complaining but is it 37signals week?

My notes of DHH's speech were on the front page for a couple of days so maybe users were inspired as well as inspired to post more themselves. ;)

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Post by slapshot » Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 10:25 PM UTC

I'm just going to point out that this sets a troubling precedent. If one firm thinks it's legitimate to discriminate in favor of mothers with children, that suggests that being a parent is an acceptable basis on which to discriminate. It opens the door to people thinking about whether somebody is a mother in making hiring decisions. That's troubling on a lot of levels, and in some states illegal.

EDIT: apparently the source has been revised to make it clear that the point is just to look evenly at parents and non-parents; that's OK, but I'll leave the comment above in reference to the earlier version.

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Post by aston » Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 10:25 PM UTC

I assumed based on the title he meant "hire people from your family." Was totally expecting an essay about the McAskill's at SmugMug.

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Post by breily » Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 10:28 PM UTC

slapshot wrote: post #7

I'm just going to point out that this sets a troubling precedent. If one firm thinks it's legitimate to discriminate in favor of mothers with children, that suggests that being a parent is an acceptable basis on which to discriminate. It opens the door to people thinking about whether somebody is a mother in making hiring decisions. That's troubling on a lot of levels, and in some states illegal. EDIT: apparently the…

He did post a revised version shortly after I submitted it - http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/996-why-i-love-working-wi... - Deals more with 'why working with family people is awesome' instead of just 'you should hire family people.'

"Update: Removed potential confusion around labor discrimination."

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Post by comatose_kid » Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 10:32 PM UTC

slapshot wrote: post #7

I'm just going to point out that this sets a troubling precedent. If one firm thinks it's legitimate to discriminate in favor of mothers with children, that suggests that being a parent is an acceptable basis on which to discriminate. It opens the door to people thinking about whether somebody is a mother in making hiring decisions. That's troubling on a lot of levels, and in some states illegal. EDIT: apparently the…

He's not advocating that you should only hire people with families. He's just saying that people with families shouldn't be discriminated against in a startup world that seems to value youth, because they can be as productive.