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I've tried and it's true. I built a great social networking website, but there were problems with just about everything (including a programmer that had a nerv
by mixmax 19y ago
I've tried and it's true.
I built a great social networking website, but there were problems with just about everything (including a programmer that had a nervous breakdown and quit, one that had a heart attack and quit, one that got pregnant and quit, a change in the law that made our business model obsolete, etc. etc) We launched just for the hell of it, but didn't follow through on it. I think there are around 50 users now...
- sutro 19y agoUpmodded for unintentional hilariousness. Are you sure a plague of locusts didn't also descend upon your programmers? Note to self: never accept a programming job from mixmax.
- mixmax 19y agohe he, I'm the devil :-) but no, none of it had anything to do with me - it was all external and not related to the startup at all. Just seriously bad luck...
- dualogy 19y agoNo offense, but personally I think this is the one sentence a person in charge should never permit him/herself to utter... :) On the other hand, bad luck happens.
- mixmax 19y agoNone taken. But I do find that humor goes a long way in management. In the above example it was the only way of dealing with it.
- mironathetin 19y agoReally bad luck would have been, if the one who suffered the stroke had not quit but gone into hospital while you still had to pay him. In the office near to mine is also a collegue who brings her baby every day. While she is there in principle, she does not work a lot, but starts to develop a strong sense to control everything. If these people stay, thats really bad luck.
- edw519 19y ago"one that had a heart attack and quit, one that got pregnant and quit" If you had put locks on your office doors, chances are both of them would still be with you.
- mixmax 19y agoyeah, but one would be dead, and the other would be busy feeding her baby :-)