Comments on: uh oh, what happened to my bank account?

By: brit

brit — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:51:01 +0000

I would love to live at google

By: plaxoed! » Q Cup in cupertino village needs some help in the customer service department [Mark Jen’s life @ Plaxo]

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:38:08 +0000

[...] Normally I don’t like to rant too much… (oh wait, I do). Anyways, we had just finished dinner at Korea Tofu House and we decided to get a little bit of desert. So we walked around Cupertino Village and decided to hit up Q-Cup. If you just clicked through to the yelp link, you’ll notice that it got 1 out of 5 stars, and this review isn’t going to help them out any either… [...]

By: themeat.org » Policy Void

themeat.org » Policy Void — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:36:00 +0000

[...] The facts of this case really terrify me. If you make harsh public comments about your employer (or let out a company secret) and they find out, you deserve to be fired. That, in a word, is stupid. Yeah, I’ll cut out an exception for whistle-blowers and other extenuating circumstances. However, if you make those kinds of comments and expect to get away with it, you are deluding yourself. [...]

By: Isaac

Isaac — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:49:22 +0000

Opportunity makes the thief. Isaac.

By: markjen

markjen — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 08:04:27 +0000

Hi David – Actually, Google was quite gracious about all the expenses. They gave me my first paycheck, reimbursed all my expenses, let me keep my signing bonus, and gave me some severance too.

Probably their most professional move in my relationship with the company

By: DavidF

DavidF — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 18:09:54 +0000

And what do you bet, after all that, google shafted him out of his first paycheck and moving expenses.

Mark, you’re probably the type of guy who saves the posteriors of those around you.

By: Tony Bird (vocational consultant)

Tony Bird (vocational consultant) — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 23:18:26 +0000

This is a story of a young person who does not have enough experience to realize the good thing he had. It is at best naive to blog about your company the way he did. Sure, much of what he said may be true, and some is probably unintentionally distorted; the point is that companies, like people, like their privacy. More than that, they expect employees to be loyal. To be sure, companies have their problems, but public forums are almost always not the place to reveal them – especially if one wants (even expects) to keep his job.

And about his comment that recruiters were calling him: any potential employer is going to be wary of immaturity in candidates, which is what is apparent here. The recruiters do not do the hiring, management does. These are two different animals. Good luck, sir, with your career; we all make mistakes and some of us learn from them.

By: markjen

markjen — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 21:06:09 +0000

Hi Mike – The fonts specified in my stylesheet are:

“Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, “Trebuchet MS”, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;

Depending on which ones you have on your computer, you may be seeing any of them. You are most likely seeing Lucida Grande though

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 16:31:29 +0000

random question — what font is used on this site? i love it

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 11:04:05 +0000

What a spoiled brat! You get a job with a high-profile company that provides you, not only with healthcare benefits, but then puts the providers right under your nose and does everything to make your life easier and all you can do is complain that they are for the employer’s benefit. Of course it is, but you are benefiting too. That’s the way it should be.
And as Lou said, it is a privelege to work, ask anyone who has ever been unemployed. If you make enough money that you don’t have to care if you lose your job and can be so over-confident that you will find a new one, that’s good for you, but don’t expect John Q. Public, who has to slave, scrimp and scrounge to get by, to agree with you.