petesmithy

These folks at The Onion are too good .. I clicked this thinking it for a moment that I’d missed an egregiously-named real tech company and this was a serious article. It’s been a while. Well played!!

Additional context for Americans: we basically don’t have guns in Britain. The most dangerous thing these guys did was nearly get run over by the stalker fleeing in his car.

this ^^ I'm afraid; I used to do feedback for everyone if they got to phone interview or beyond; it's time consuming but I thought it would be a better candidate experience; maybe 1/4 people were grateful and positive about receiving feedback, but 1/4 people get argumentative and it can get really personal; now I just say something generic like "we had a lot of strong candidates" and everyone just moves on

I get what you're driving at, but have you considered that sports teams, athletes are also optimising for 15+ year long careers (or even a long season)? Sports teams help players avoid over-training, over-competing, picking up injuries and burning out. Then there's managing the psychological side (keeping on winning, bouncing back from losing) which athletes are also not expected to look after 100% on their own. Finally, there's just simple personal mental health. So it can't be true that a great sports org is constantly driving marginal gains 24/7/365 with every athlete every day the way you describe.

4 day work weeks just look sensible to me. A massive privilege, for sure, given most people will still have to work 5+ days a week for the foreseeable future. But honestly the difference to my life (for the periods of time I've pulled it off) of having a 3- vs a 2-day weekend is ... transformative. And I'm better at my job for it.

A 4-day workweek arguably puts MORE emphasis on everyone in the company knowing exactly what they need to be doing. The company needs to be better run, to take advantage of the productivity boost of happier/better rested/more motivated employees 4 days /wk.

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The bit that you can still see (ie. mobile app, website) is owned by Warner now actually, acquired by them in July 2017.

The bit that Ticketmaster/LN 'acquired' in 2018 was, by then, just a vehicle for the lawsuit related to this hack/other anti-competitive/monopolistic behaviour.

There are never any future guarantees of liquidity, so take this opportunity.

I get that this shit is hard but who thinks that saying "[o]ur in-house attorneys will shift to have the option to become preferred providers in our professional services network" is ok?

This is such a gross way of putting it.

This isn't a publicly listed company ffs, just say what everyone knows it means: "our startup's Plan A performed unexpectedly so some of our great colleagues, who believed in us and worked hard for up to 2.5 years, are losing their jobs, and this sucks, but based on what we all learned, including thanks to the valuable work the in-house guys did, we're kicking off Plan B today".

This is bad advice. No one should have all their (paper) net worth tied up in one investment. Selling secondary shares is just sensible, even assuming you believe in your company.

Alex Ferguson would do the same, and reporters would curry favour with him in order to maintain access. This is just bully-boy press relations.

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