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From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

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Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

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Post by cyberpunk »

whstl wrote: post #245
Lio wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s so Brazilian, in the sense of the film[1] not the country. There’s something of Bob Hoskins’ heating engineer in what you’ve described. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)

I have a Brazilian (the country) email story. This company had a rule where the mail was first name + last name initial. So, timc@company.com if you're Tim Cook. Naturally they ended up hiring a customer success person called "Ana Lopes". She of course noticed on the first day and complained, but IT dragged their feet until some high-profile customer saw "reply to ANAL" in the automated ZenDesk email and send an angr…

I still raise a glass occasionally to good old William Anker.

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Post by atulatul »

ryancnelson wrote: post #43

i love this. A startup I was at during early COVID times got acquired into Hewlett Packard Enterprise, so we all became HPE employees with HPE addresses. There was a similar form there to request "ryancnelson"@hpe, etc... One of my co-workers got cute and asked for "root@hpe.com" .... And boy, there's a lot of cron jobs running at HP.

Was the co-worker called Newman?

I read the last sentence 'And boy, there's a lot of cron jobs running at HP.' in Newman's voice:

From the Seinfeld episode The Diplomat's Club:

"I took over his route. And boy, were there a lot of dogs on that route."

Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

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Post by stfods »

ryancnelson wrote: post #43

i love this. A startup I was at during early COVID times got acquired into Hewlett Packard Enterprise, so we all became HPE employees with HPE addresses. There was a similar form there to request "ryancnelson"@hpe, etc... One of my co-workers got cute and asked for "root@hpe.com" .... And boy, there's a lot of cron jobs running at HP.

Ah, I remember this feature, somewhere within Directory services setup. I have successfully obtained -.-@hp.com and a few more similar weird email addresses. Sometimes back is 2006 or 2007

Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

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Post by jjkaczor »

Heh - I had something similar when I started at Microsoft - but from my wife (now ex), who was emailing "[myGivenFirstName]@microsoft.com" for some reason, thinking that I was the only person with that name at Microsoft (uh-huh) and furious that I wasn't answering her, when I was away during initial onboarding...

Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

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Post by jrojers »

I was an early employee at a startup and happened to share a similar name and initials with the guy who eventually became CFO. oooo boy - lots of receipts and approval emails sent my way. I would forward/delete and we'd laugh about it.

Then we started to get big and it became less funny. Not my fault, and nobody blamed me, but one week we had a quarterly sales meeting and the company flew in 50+ reps from around the country... Those folks can spend money. I did my best to avoid reading, but receipts for extravagant food/drinks were hard to ignore.

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Post by whamlastxmas »

udev4096 wrote: post #229
LukeShu wrote: post #161

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> What is happening if you can't email your boss/upper on the regular like that ? In a 40 person startup or small company, sure. In a 400 person company, the guy at the top is a few levels removed from "your boss" to be emailing with "on the regular". OP had Jobs as his CEO for 20 years (hired in 1991, until Jobs passed in 2011), and says this was the only time Jobs directly emailed with him (of course, 400 people in…

Idolizing steve jobs, or anyone running such an evil corp is honestly just evil as well. Apart from bullying potential competitors, Apple is at top of the list for running an extensive mass surveillance on all of it's users

I think it’s less idolizing and more just interesting to have anecdotes about household name celebrities

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Post by whamlastxmas »

hx8 wrote: post #183
MarkMarine wrote: post #94

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I had mark@apple.com during my time there, accidentally got added to one of the exec’s threads from Tim and felt pretty silly (and didn’t read anything in that thread, couldn’t delete it fast enough, had to email Tim to explain)

There are a lot of stories like this where people accidentally get emails and then not read them. Why wouldn't you read the email?

What possible upside is there to reading it? The potential downside is getting fired. I’d delete it too

Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

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Post by wavemode »

Thorrez wrote: post #254
swyx wrote: post #191

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2000 is a pretty low amount. presumably theyd have to spend way more than that to enforce it, so they would NOT spend it, in which case its free money that you shouldnt have turned down because it was way too small for a gag order

>you shouldnt have turned down because it was way too small for a gag order You're saying that if someone offers me a small amount of money I should accept it, but if someone offers me a large amount of money I should maybe reject it? That sounds backwards to me.

I think the idea is, assuming you have already resolved to disparage the company

in that case, rightfully you should not take the money regardless of the amount.

but, if it's a tiny amount of money (tiny enough to indicate that the company probably isn't going to bother coming after you in court) then you can maybe consider taking it anyway and accepting the miniscule risk

whereas receiving a vast sum of money would carry a much larger risk of legal action

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