@cory I've never seen an Apple event that didn't remind me of an "all hands" meeting at my day job that could have been an email.
I mean, if all you're going to do is present a slide deck, you might as well just email a link to the slide deck and let people read it if they give a shit.
@cory I'm just glad I'll probably never meet the guy, because I might not be able to resist calling him "Hans Gruber".
Whatever his faults, he doesn't deserve that, and I damn well know better given how many times my last name has been given unflattering misspellings and mispronunciations.
Okay, I’m not sure an adult would be seen dead wearing this but maybe someone under the age of 15? You would have to have a manic love of Marvel comic books.
99.9% of jobs do not require urgency of any kind, really they don't. We've all had a boss who acts like someone will die if we don't hit some made up deadline by people who don't even do the job. No one needs their meal 1 minute faster or the paperwork before tomorrow morning. Your time off actually doesn't need to wait. Sometimes I think about how legitimately bad most businesses are at time management and hiring, and I wonder how they manage to exist at all.
@RickiTarr I make CRUD applications for a living. The closest thing to an actual emergency I've ever seen involved nuking a production database with an ad hoc query.
However, since I'm usually a developer and not a DBA that is almost never my problem.
So, unless I'm writing avionics software or software to control medical equipment or nuclear power plants, there is no such thing as a life-and-death emergency at work for me.
It takes as long as it takes and it takes longer if you annoy me.
@cory I'd rather just buy CDs and rip them. That way the musicians might get a few bucks from me, and I don't have to be jacked in just because I want to rock out.
@cory Did your cat steal the /s at the end of your post?
I don't think tech CEOs give a single little fucking shit about art, music, literature, or the humanities as a whole. To call them philistines is to be needlessly charitable.
@cory I dunno. I think calling them sociopaths is letting them off easy, and unfair to people who understand that something isn't quite right in their heads and are trying to counteract it.
I think these are people who have decided that the end justifies the means, and that it's OK to fuck people over, run roughshod over law and custom, and ruin entire ecosystems for their idea of a good cause.
Nobody chooses antisocial personality disorder, but these CEOs choose to be this way. Fuck 'em.