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| coppice:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on June 27, 2023, 10:27:36 pm ---Treez/ocset/faringdon appears to be an excellent exemplar of something described by Isaac Asimov in 1957. His novella "Profession" is still worth speedreading. https://www.inf.ufpr.br/renato/profession.html The points in that resonated with me when I was a schoolkid, and significantly and positively benefited my career and outlook on life. --- End quote --- Are you sure you read that story? You seem to keep referencing it in contexts where it doesn't fit. The whole point of that story is the vast majority of people are incapable of doing anything really interesting, and the small number of truly creative are hard to recognise. There is nothing the vast majority of people can do about their lot in life. Only the small number of truly creative people can do anything about their lot in life, and really need to, as they can so easily be screwed by the clueless. |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: thm_w on July 07, 2023, 11:57:39 pm --- --- Quote from: ataradov on July 07, 2023, 11:31:46 pm ---And I have not worked for 40 companies, so the template is not universal. --- End quote --- No its totally normal to get fired from your job every few months and find a new one. Completely universal. --- End quote --- When sifting through piles of CVs it amazes me how many people are deeply impressed by CVs showing a long string of jobs. When you point out this means the candidate offers poor stability they have to agree, but with great reluctance. |
| fourfathom:
This all reminds me of a guy I used to work with. He interviewed reasonably well, so we hired him. He turned out to be quite "difficult" and after all the proper legal steps were taken he was terminated for cause. Soon after that he actually received start-up funding for a networking gear company that quickly cratered, with armed guards escorting him out of the building. (His company name was "Cratos Networks" -- https://www.lightreading.com/ethernet-ip/cratos-networks-tips-its-hand/d/d-id/572791). Anyway, after that he distributed this amazing "Letter to the Industry". Since the statute of limitations has expired (this was around 2001) I am posting it here. This may not be the place for it, but this thread is already damaged beyond redemption and I have long wanted to share this letter. It's a long letter, but IMO worth reading. The "Chambers" mentioned is John Chambers, then CEO of Cisco Systems. Our company (Cerent) was acquired by Cisco. --- Quote ---Erudite Folks, Upon due contemplation, I have to write to you again (and hopefully the last time) to resolve certain matters that have gone on for 2 years. I apologize for the inconvenience but not only I need help from the industry, this can be best resolved by the intervention by the industry. I have made repeated attempts to get these matters resolved many times over last one year, but only resulted in a choking strategy by trying to back me in a corner, so I request the people in the industry to step in to put an end to it for good in a specific time-frame. This can be easily ended with some executive decisions from the industry and the people copied on this are in a position to do so, as well as bring it to the attention of Chambers of the world. Also it is important to simply resolve it by executive decisions, as experience has shown that discussions result in primeval chaos. I also believe, that this specific issue is the root cause of all problems, which when resolved will automatically take care of other problems. My objective is to focus on the desired outcome, but wherever necessary, I have to give some details, even though I am just tired of even talking about it, as it is a total waste of time. I also note that this has continued because the people involved have used deceitful tactics to waste time. Before I go into some of the details and what I believe to be the right set of steps towards an amicable & just resolution, one obvious question needs to be answered (which is a very valid question). Whether some miscreants intentionally tried to put my life on hold or was it just a case of bad times? To ensure objective & rational analysis without involving emotions, I have had a few of my friends go over all the details. The judgment is that: Bad times resulted in few opportunities (to start a company as well as some job opportunities), but sabotaging coupled with riot psychology, obsession & malicious gossip played a significantly detrimental role. Meticulously gathered evidence to that effect can be provided if necessary. The modus operandi was more like the “warrior breed” from Carl Jung’s “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, an irrational, unjustified attempt driven by psychotic obsession & malice, by resorting to stealth, intricate web of deceit, behind the scenes manipulations of facts, schoolyard bullying by promoting riot psychology to gang up and using destructive means of torture. In simple words, this has nothing to do with ego, as ego by it’s etymology is a driving force to achieve great things/greatness and resulting in highest humility upon success. To the best of my knowledge, champions do no behave in such a manner, but only champions belong on a high pedestal. If you have a lemon and can’t make a lemonade, is it justified to blame the tree that grew the lemon? Desired terms of resolution: My request is that the industry sets a specific date by which these issues must be fully resolved and an agreement be in place, which can then be discussed in person (LP’s can pay for my trip to CA or send a representative out here to hash out finer details of the terms). This shouldn’t take more than a week, in fact this can be done in half a day. But I am mentioning this because I have seen delay/time-wasting tactics using deceit. Everybody makes mistakes and although in this case there are clearly some things which are more than genuine mistakes, can still be forgiven provided there is a prompt & proper resolution. I am extending my courtesy to forget & forgive as part of any amicable resolution. Compensation for damages: There are variety of damages caused in the process. These damages are both personal (and some very priceless indeed!) as well as professional, both of which have some longer-term repercussions, unfortunately. In my previous correspondence with LP’s, I had asked for $35mil in compensation, for whatever unjustified reasons, they do not wish to conduct themselves professionally. I will give specifics of how I arrived at this number using conservative numbers. I included $5 mil that I would have made from my company, which should have been successful had it not been messed with. I added another $25mil for priceless personal & annoying professional damages done, which not only have greatly disrupted my life plans but have hindered the progress on those fronts for some obvious reasons, which have some other highly undesired repercussions (mainly on the personal side). I added another $5 mil for lost wages & benefits as well as undone wages from Cratos over the period of more than 2 years. So, let the industry decide the right compensation which everybody should agree on. Clearing up the gossip & name tainting: Every piece of gossip out there has been dismissed with prejudice as part of the Court Case and covered under a Settlement Agreement, so it should not have happened in the first place. Secondly, the riot psychology brought in more people trying to take advantage of the situation, including attempts to steal some of my latest business plans. Quite a few people have credibility problems it seems. It also resulted in quite a few VC’s misbehaving with me. This can be easily cleared up by privately communicating with the VC’s on both coasts and some folks in the industry, with proper guidelines for future. I have some simple ideas of how this can be achieved without humiliating anybody and can be discussed in person. (This also needs to be done for few other people as well, who became silent victims). It is my opinion that LP’s be asked to issue me a public apology, again I leave it to the industry to decide. Professional front: There has to be immediate progress on the professional front. Those involved in this (you know who they are) must leave the industry for atleast 2 years. If they fail to conduct professionally and agree to the decisions of the industry, they must leave the industry for 5 years. Again let the industry decide, but my opinion is that unless they are given taste of their own medicine they are likely to do such things again. Digital-Crossconnect Property: I had never transferred rights to this into Cratos, although they have claimed rights to this property. I also believe that there might have been a payoff from either Bessemer or Tellabs on this for Ocular. So, I leave it to the industry to decide who really owns this property and who the money belongs to if there was a payoff. I appreciate immediate action from the Industry without paying attention to time-wasting deceit, which unfortunately does damage to me. Time has come to end this right away. Regards, [name deleted] --- End quote --- |
| xrunner:
Sounds like it could have come from this automatic complaint letter generator :-DD https://www.pakin.org/complaint |
| floobydust:
Reminds me of Jerry McGuire's Mission Statement Letter... it touched everyone's heart. Look at Elon Musk- he sacks all those Twitter employess, they go over the Facebook and work on Threads. Now he's all whaaaaa “willful” misappropriation of trade secrets, they stole IP! But you fired them dumbass. You don't own people, slave driver. These guys don't realize that what's in an engineer's head walks out the door and they can't own the guy's brain. Even a big NDA can't take away your right to prosper I've found. |
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