3 ms·

My understanding of the narrative: * Musk approached us and we decided it was the best thing for him to take over and join the board * We have decided that th

My understanding of the narrative: * Musk approached us and we decided it was the best thing for him to take over and join the board * We have decided that the best way forwards will be for him not to join the board * We have decided that we absolutely do not want to have Musk as owner * We have decided to accept the offer to buy Twitter by Musk. All of this is corporate bollocks and probably has very few useful lessons for us lesser mortals except that to succeed in business, truth and honesty does not add any value.

samstave 5y ago
>>...that to succeed in business, truth and honesty does not add any value... I wish we had an open forum on HN to call out all the times engineers have been fucked over in so many situations of acqui-hire-BS that has occurred. I know I am not alone in having companies build entire revenue streams around my efforts and contributions and fucked me over in the end after I set them on the right trajectory with my efforts. Its funny this came up, as while I was on my morning ride, I was lamenting about this very issue ; I was calling back a memory from a few years ago while I was building the Salesforce offices throughout the US... I had regular meetings with my CEO discussing my bonus. Which was to be about $30,000 for the completion of 50 Fremont in SF. They used a tool to track contribution to the efforts, and I had a pretty little graph showing my bonus payout based on what I was doing... (we were the technology designers for all their offices, I was the TPM who did the actual design, implementation, consultant and construction management of the LV/AV/IT/Sec/Facilities etc.. vendors et al - installed and configured every piece of networking equipment, maintained the IT project plan and etc.... I made this company millions. After completing the Chicago office - I was told that the project was closing and that I would be laid off ( I did the work of a team ) and that my bonus was $2,000. that "Salesforce hasn't paid us yet" --- This company, was denigrated all over the bay area, and I was literally hired to clean up their mess at multiple locations. Hospitals, tech companies, etc... They have a slimy sales and CEO, and while they seem all professional and moral etc.. they are not. David and Ken, bless your heart, for helping keep psychopath archetypes alive and well.

samstave 5y ago

>>...that to succeed in business, truth and honesty does not add any value... I wish we had an open forum on HN to call out all the times engineers have been fucked over in so many situations of acqui-hire-BS that has occurred. I know I am not alone in having companies build entire revenue streams around my efforts and contributions and fucked me over in the end after I set them on the right trajectory with my efforts. Its funny this came up, as while I was on my morning ride, I was lamenting about this very issue ; I was calling back a memory from a few years ago while I was building the Salesforce offices throughout the US... I had regular meetings with my CEO discussing my bonus. Which was to be about $30,000 for the completion of 50 Fremont in SF. They used a tool to track contribution to the efforts, and I had a pretty little graph showing my bonus payout based on what I was doing... (we were the technology designers for all their offices, I was the TPM who did the actual design, implementation, consultant and construction management of the LV/AV/IT/Sec/Facilities etc.. vendors et al - installed and configured every piece of networking equipment, maintained the IT project plan and etc.... I made this company millions. After completing the Chicago office - I was told that the project was closing and that I would be laid off ( I did the work of a team ) and that my bonus was $2,000. that "Salesforce hasn't paid us yet" --- This company, was denigrated all over the bay area, and I was literally hired to clean up their mess at multiple locations. Hospitals, tech companies, etc... They have a slimy sales and CEO, and while they seem all professional and moral etc.. they are not. David and Ken, bless your heart, for helping keep psychopath archetypes alive and well.