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Nice to hear Schap's style hasn't changed much. I don't want to sound too much like a whiner, because I'm writing this from my boats on the tropical island wher
by justanother 14y ago
Nice to hear Schap's style hasn't changed much. I don't want to sound too much like a whiner, because I'm writing this from my boats on the tropical island where I live now, but I was the first programmer to quit from his first company when he gave me the royal butt-chewing treatment for daring to take two hours off to visit friends on Independence Day 1996. He paid me $24K per year, with zero stock options or advancement opportunities, to work from 11am-2am every day of the week, to write a certain Super Nintendo game. There's worse I could say, but again, the point isn't to whine. Nobody has to put up with that.
- MartinCron 14y agoI you write more about these experiences, I would be eager to read them.
- justanother 14y agoIt wouldn't be particularly good karma to dish dirt here on hackernews, and my prior description pretty much says it all. Fortunately I was only 18, and only stayed in that environment for about 3 months before quitting without notice (on July 5th, as it happened), while many of those who did stick with it and who succeeded in that environment, remain virgins to this day. It's all about which lifestyle suits you, I suppose. I can tell you that Schap once asked me how I liked Orlando, because it was where I could continue to live as long as I did good work for him (I lived there 13 years after I quit, before moving to the tropics).
- MartinCron 14y agoYour discretion is admirable.