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How do you respond to a one-character email from your boss's boss's boss? (2018)
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Re: How do you respond to a one-character email from your boss's boss's boss? (2018)
#32I'd be tempted to respond with "Use your words, Jeff". But then I am a mere minion.
Unfortunately, people like us who respond to that sort of thing like a normal human (as opposed to a brainwashed corporate drone who lives in terror of the master's displeasure) tend not to do well in the corporate world. The trick of corporate survival, as observed in those who can actually hack it, is extreme compartmentalization. They become two people: one who watches the abuse from a distance as if it were happe…
Like I said to my therapist last week; they hire you for your skill and creativity, then want you to sit in a box and do as you are told.
Or somehow magically know what to do and say. If you say to little, you are not engaging with the team, say too much and you are disruptive. Say the wrong thing and thats a big problem.
We really need to move our society on from telling people that companies are a family and they look after people. They dont.
Re: How do you respond to a one-character email from your boss's boss's boss? (2018)
#33> Bezos forwarded it to your boss, with only a single character added: "?." As an armchair typographer, I think we need to stop insisting on placing sentence-terminating periods inside quotation marks. It would have been clearer this way. > Bezos forwarded it to your boss, with only a single character added: "?".
It doesn't even make sense. The sentence containing the quotation only ends when the quotation itself ends, not before. `print("abc)"`
Re: How do you respond to a one-character email from your boss's boss's boss? (2018)
#34I find the claim that bezos sees “most of those emails” quite hard to believe. Must be thousands of them
I sent Bezos (@jeff anyway) an email a couple of years ago, about the absurdity of using Alexa.com for the analytics tool, while simultaneously having Alexa the wildly successful voice assistant line. Customers looking for the voice assistant go to Alexa.com, whoops; customers go digging for Alexa on Google and end up at Alexa.com, whoops. A particularly dumb thing for a supposedly smart corporation to do. I went ste…
I'm not sure unsolicited business advice from a stranger really deserves a personal response, especially not five paragraphs of it!
Re: How do you respond to a one-character email from your boss's boss's boss? (2018)
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They probably want the money and reputation that Amazon gives them. They have that to lose. What you're saying could be applied to anything people do for their own interest. Taken to the extreme - Afraid of starving? Should have just died instead, then you wouldn't need to depend on food.
Re: How do you respond to a one-character email from your boss's boss's boss? (2018)
#36> Bezos forwarded it to your boss, with only a single character added: "?." As an armchair typographer, I think we need to stop insisting on placing sentence-terminating periods inside quotation marks. It would have been clearer this way. > Bezos forwarded it to your boss, with only a single character added: "?".
It doesn't even make sense. The sentence containing the quotation only ends when the quotation itself ends, not before. `print("abc)"`
It’s a tradition from the fixed-width font typewriter era IIRC. Quote mark followed by period looked bad because of all the whitespace.
Re: How do you respond to a one-character email from your boss's boss's boss? (2018)
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Re: How do you respond to a one-character email from your boss's boss's boss? (2018)
#38I'd be tempted to respond with "Use your words, Jeff". But then I am a mere minion.
Unfortunately, people like us who respond to that sort of thing like a normal human (as opposed to a brainwashed corporate drone who lives in terror of the master's displeasure) tend not to do well in the corporate world. The trick of corporate survival, as observed in those who can actually hack it, is extreme compartmentalization. They become two people: one who watches the abuse from a distance as if it were happe…
You need to work for a different company, this isn't normal.
Re: How do you respond to a one-character email from your boss's boss's boss? (2018)
#39> Bezos forwarded it to your boss, with only a single character added: "?." As an armchair typographer, I think we need to stop insisting on placing sentence-terminating periods inside quotation marks. It would have been clearer this way. > Bezos forwarded it to your boss, with only a single character added: "?".
It doesn't even make sense. The sentence containing the quotation only ends when the quotation itself ends, not before. `print("abc)"`
You're assuming a context free grammar, this is a context sensitive grammar.
Much like being bold being both being italic is a malformed CFG but a perfectly valid CSG.
Ironically it's the one advantage XML type notation has over Lisp type notation when it comes to expressiveness. It's rather unfortunate that, essentially, all XML tools assume proper nesting.
Re: How do you respond to a one-character email from your boss's boss's boss? (2018)
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I sent Bezos (@jeff anyway) an email a couple of years ago, about the absurdity of using Alexa.com for the analytics tool, while simultaneously having Alexa the wildly successful voice assistant line. Customers looking for the voice assistant go to Alexa.com, whoops; customers go digging for Alexa on Google and end up at Alexa.com, whoops. A particularly dumb thing for a supposedly smart corporation to do. I went ste…
I'm not sure unsolicited business advice from a stranger really deserves a personal response, especially not five paragraphs of it!
Conversely, with smaller businesses, I once sent an email as a customer about a completely unusable pipeline for purchasing their product and how to fix it… it resulted in a job offer.
Totally different scale and probably different scenario though.
I was an executive level at my current company who really wanted their product(physical ) , but their pages were taking upwards of 3 minutes to load and erroring out the other half the time.