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You don't get rich by writing a lot of checks.
by rhizome 9y ago
You don't get rich by writing a lot of checks.
- puhnbbuy777 9y agoYeah lots of folks I've worked with, C*-level on down, plan vacations such that work pays for it (around conf travel dates, for example). Ain't gonna lie, I've done it; got to spend two days sightseeing Munich by straight up lying about how long it would take to fix the customers problem. I don't regret it. The extent of graft and grift on display by society as a whole... I don't feel like a villain for costing the customer a couple thousand dollars extra.
- lkrubner 9y agoI don't understand why puhnbbuy777's comment has been killed. It looks like they created a throwaway account so they could admit to unethical behavior. Their comment seems like a useful perspective for us to keep in mind.
- dang 9y agoI feel like we've had this conversation before? HN has software that kills some comments based on patterns of past abuses by trolls. Sometimes there are false positives. That unfortunately was the case here. Instead of posting an off-topic comment about it, why not just solve the problem by vouching for the original comment? That's why we added that feature: to rescue good comments that happen to be [dead]. All: to vouch for a dead comment, click on its timestamp to go it its link, then click 'vouch' at the top. There's a small karma threshold (currently 30) before such links appear.