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If you don't mind me asking, is there any particular reason you didn't just leave? I'd imagine this fits the kind of situation where you aren't obligated to sta
by spike021 9y ago
If you don't mind me asking, is there any particular reason you didn't just leave? I'd imagine this fits the kind of situation where you aren't obligated to stay.
- amigoingtodie 9y agoI am guessing stock options/vesting. I believe Alanis took mp3.com stock as payment. That was a different time. The Beam-it software was pretty cool.
- ssharp 9y agoIt was a different time, but probably not that different figuratively. Things like Shatner taking Priceline stock to be their spokesperson played into the dot-com mania narrative of the time, but now that's seen as a shrewd business move. 50 Cent had a $60-100 million exit with Vitamin Water and Lebron had a $30 million exit with Beats.
- sirmarksalot 9y agoDepending on the timeline, this may have overlapped with the dot-com crash, in which case a programmer would be happy to have any job they could get.
- ryanisnan 9y ago$
- chriszelazo 9y agoDefinitely al about the money
- TeMPOraL 9y agoYes. That's literally the reason most of us deal with bullshit at our dayjobs every day.
- spike021 9y agoHow does that work if the company was being sued? Do they have some kind of reserve to pay current employees with?
- kickopotomus 9y agoBeing tied up in a lawsuit does not grind a company to a halt. Most of the Fortune 500 is probably getting sued right now for some reason or another. Also, when a company loses a lawsuit, the court doesn’t automatically debit the damages from the company. Winning a case and collecting damages are 2 very different things.
- spike021 9y agoThanks for the explanation, wasn't sure how that kind of thing works.
- _eht 9y agoOh, hey man!
- dang 9y agoPlease don't do this here.
- xab9 9y agoThe billion dollar question. Why didn't you leave. Couple of weeks ago been talking to a coworker and said him that _sometimes_ people end up in uncomfortable situations. Family, children, debt, divorce, medical, elderly parents and so on - he said, that's not possible, because people _should_ plan their lives.
- Terr_ 9y agoAh, the Just World Hypothesis. "Something bad happens, you must've screwed up somehow. Just look at me, I'm doing fine and I instinctively know that random good-luck had nothing to do with it."
- ZeroGravitas 9y agoYou forgot the most important psychological part "... and if that wasn't true, then life would be terrifying". People believe in the witchdoctor's raindance because the alternative is to believe your entire life is at the mercy of the random chance of weather and could be destroyed at any moment. Which is true, but hard to deal with mentally.
- RobertoG 9y agoI think that effect it's called by psychologists "fundamental attribution error". It has been studied for years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
- Sinergy2 9y agoIt's called the Just World Hypothesis and has indeed been studied for decades. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
- Terr_ 9y agoThey are certainly related, but not quite the same. JWT is based on whether positive or negative outcomes were "deserved" and the extent to which randomness exists. In contrast, FAE touches on what you believe motivated an individual to act, and whether it was innate or circumstantial.
- gus_massa 9y agoDid he get paid for his work during these two years? It doesn't look like a funny work [1] but it brings home the bacon. [1] Perhaps the first wave is interesting, but the third or fourth time is probably a little repetitive.