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"If a Pixar employee applies to Intel without being recruited by Intel, contact Pat Gelsinger and explain to him a Pixar employee (provide the candidates name)
by Maxious 15y ago
"If a Pixar employee applies to Intel without being recruited by Intel, contact Pat Gelsinger and explain to him a Pixar employee (provide the candidates name) has applied to Intel without being recruited and he will contact the CEO of Pixar for approval to hire"
Scary.
- mjwalshe 15y agoyes that goes well beyond non poaching
- coffee 15y agoI'm surprised that people in these threads say "I'm not at all surprised by this behavior" - It's a sad state of affairs when we, as employees, wholly expect this behavior between the few leading companies in this area.
- codeonfire 15y agoWe have to work among the group of people for which this behavior is standard procedure. We are reminded daily of how insane, sociopathic, and child-like middle managers can be and that it only gets worse (far worse) the further up the chain. If I were working at a place where someone didn't expect this behavior I would think that person was very inexperienced. If I found a company where management didn't behave like this, maybe because it is relatively young, I would expect them to start misbehaving within a few years as the sociopaths start working their way into the corporate structure.
- coffee 15y agoI'm sorry, I just have a problem with this mentality. Things are fucked up, so we should expect it to continue being fucked up, and now that it is expected, we shall deem it acceptable... > It's a sad state of affairs when we, as employees, wholly expect this behavior...
- codeonfire 15y agoJust because something is expected doesn't mean that it is acceptable. On the contrary, if someone fucks up, like they always do, and you EXPECT it, you can act on it. In this case, thousands of people are about to have a payday because some evil execs who probably don't even know how email works fucked up. Someone, somewhere expected it, got the evidence nailed down, and went after them. After this settles, there's going to be lots of people (and many lawyers) expecting this behavior and actively looking for it.
- coffee 15y agohmmm... Well, this isn't an attack against you personally, or a tit-for-tat sort of comment, but... > We have to work among the group of people for which this behavior is standard procedure. You ARE saying that this is acceptable, since "we have to" work among them, and I just don't agree :)
- codeonfire 15y agoWell, the alternative is homelessness and early death.
- spacemanaki 15y agoSurely there are other alternatives than that... someone working for one of these tech giants has a lot of options other than working for another tech giant. Like starting her own company.
- coffee 15y agoI believe comments like this is why I'm constantly finding disagreement with what you say. You have a very hard slant. Personally, I've found, and seen others having, a wide array of alternatives available to them. If "we" don't show that this behavior is wrong, through our actions, it will continue...
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- SilasX 15y agoYeah. These corporations dealing with employees sound more like pimps dealing with their "ho"s.