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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 UltraSane »

flutetornado wrote: post #200
jrockway wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was weird. It makes me sad because the startup I worked at was really gelling despite the HPE interference. Then they just laid everyone off one day (multiple senior leadership changes later) for no apparent reason. All the code is Apache 2 so I guess if I really cared I could just revive it... and as it turns out, I don't care that much. Other stuff to do.

Everyone in my entire team - best of engineering as well as every manager left. Underpaying and over subscribing people has become a hallmark over there - it's just a body shop now. Engineers are just numbers on a sheet, to be exploited, chewed and cast aside when they eventually burnout. Upper management has no vision and everyone's constantly firefighting and struggling to catch up with competitors who had long ter…

"Engineers are just numbers on a sheet, to be exploited, chewed and cast aside when they eventually burnout."

This is exactly how Epic the Electronic Medical Record company operates, but on new college grads instead of Engineers.

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Post by milkshakes »

andrewchilds wrote: post #158
milkshakes wrote: post #141

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i nabbed complaints@apple.com for a while. that was pretty scarring actually.

I’m interested in reading the rest of this story.

sorry! that might get me in trouble. i didn't get in trouble for registering the alias, though i did remove it after getting one too many disturbing emails.

that didn't stop me from registering it again at my next employer, where i received more complaints, but in this case they were less out there and i actually knew the people who could do something about them (smaller company, support shadowing shifts), and there i was eventually able to wire the alias into their official process after forwarding enough of them to the people i knew.

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

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Post by zerocrates »

bilekas wrote: post #147
sailfast wrote: post #119

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I’d hypothesize you would if you thought he was a great boss, and the opportunity to work there was unique. Just reading that email felt magical to me - to get something so visionary on your first day at a company in the early 90s would’ve convinced me they were leading me in the right direction.

Again, I like the guy, but you say this : > to get something so visionary In what world are 4 words visionary ? "Great idea, thank you" You're idealizing a boss you worked with..

I assume they mean the email at the top of the post, with the photo and embedded audio.

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

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Post by arrowsmith »

incanus77 wrote: post #116
pkaye wrote: post #108

What if a new employee was named Steve Teve?

I first learned about the ability to apply for custom aliases at my university after noticing a guy I knew didn't have the usual pattern — first 5 of last name, first name initial, and nothing or else numbers 2+ depending upon your order in line. So I was 'millej3'. Then I thought about the guy's name: D___ Hoover. He had applied for, and got, 'hoover'.

I don't get it, what's wrong with "hooved"?

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Post by simonask »

jkingsman wrote: post #140
knotimpressed wrote: post #135

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What were the details of paying $2000?

Not the commenter, but I would assume forgoing an exit bonus/severance payment that was contingent upon signing a non-disparagement agreement.

As a European, it is absolutely WILD to me that this is legal.

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Post by Lio »

jrockway wrote: post #132
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.

They must have learned from your experience. When we were acquired by HPE they did not let us choose and our director of engineering got an email address that misspelled his name... fixing it involved him being locked out of all systems while the people trying to fix it emailed someone else with a similar name about it. His advice for other team members in the same spot was "if you don't like your email address, do n…

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)

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

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Post by altacc »

tehnub wrote: post #206

So Steve was against haptic feedback on the iPhone? I may have to turn it off in that case.

Like many CEOs, Steve Jobs' primary skills seemed to be motivation and decision making, which means not always being correct and indeed sometimes confidently incorrect. But crucially gives direction & certainty for a company. He also didn't like the idea of third party apps and now iPhones are basically platforms for third party apps to run on.
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