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This happened to a colleague of mine, he was the sales director of the company (ISP in the mid 90s) we worked for, and after 3 take overs in a row - and 3 times
by Uchikoma 13y ago
This happened to a colleague of mine, he was the sales director of the company (ISP in the mid 90s) we worked for, and after 3 take overs in a row - and 3 times changing of mouse pads, business cards and email addresses in a short time - he had no responsibilities left, had no boss but was on the payroll. He quit after some months of being bored.
- ams6110 13y agoDid he keep his red stapler?
- Everlag 13y agoI imagine he burned the building down when they didn't let him.
- zanny 13y ago> He quit after some months of being bored. Talk about a lack of imagination! Just think of all the dinky hacking projects you could do with a guaranteed paycheck and no responsibilities. I'd probably spend 12 hours a day writing qml.
- Uchikoma 13y agoHe was a sales guy :-)
- dripton 13y agoThe startup I worked for got bought by a big company, then two years later they decided to shut us down. But they wanted a fraction of us to stick around for 3 months and keep the servers running while they transitioned to the new system. And they offered us large severance checks to stick around until the end. (Basically, barely work for 3 months then get another 3 months bonus pay.) It was painfully boring. I wrote a lot of hobby code. Learned a couple of programming languages. Read a few good books. Helped people with their resumes. Had some nice long lunches. Volunteered to fix everything that broke during business hours so that I could feel like I'd at least done something useful. I wish I'd produced something more useful during those slack 3 months, but I was afraid that if I did, the big company would claim ownership of it.
- Wingman4l7 13y agoThey could only do that if you didn't take pains to hide it from them.