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leveymg

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4. There's a line by Zicjerberg in "The Social Network" about that: "If those servers are down for even

Reply to Xithras (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 31, 2012, 04:25 PM

Oct 2012

a day, our entire reputation is irreversibly destroyed!"

The whole mentality is unbalanced 24/7 winner-take-all narcissism. It's destroying what remains of humanity in business.

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In the middle of an unprecedented natural disaster, they expect employees to double-up and work? leveymg Oct 2012 #1

Fairly standard startup mentality Xithras Oct 2012 #2

There's a line by Zicjerberg in "The Social Network" about that: "If those servers are down for even leveymg Oct 2012 #4

To give you an idea of how far that goes... Posteritatis Oct 2012 #5

A day down could be very expensive, given the punatives that are written into a lot of SLAs leveymg Oct 2012 #6

A typical IT startup would lean on employees to work even if they'd just been murdered. (nt) Posteritatis Oct 2012 #3