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“was that wrong? should I not have done that?”

4 tahun yang laludiscuss

FMLA leave is job-protected and it’s illegal to retaliate against an employee for taking it. You can be fired when you return for reasons not related to the leave but - it’s also dangerous to play that game if you don’t have a documented history to support it.

awinder

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I would not go further than associating an October exit date as someone who took a buyout, and anyone with an exit date in the first half of 2021 as a sucker.

awinder

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I have read that certain earth beings sometimes replicate themselves, and navigating the needy replicants needs & wants requires rejiggering how much life is spent where.

awinder

7 tahun yang laludiscuss

This is not to take anything away from the level of pettiness from Cerberus in the way they're handling it but there’s a couple of ways that this happens with companies:

1. Severe miscalculation where the costs of lifetime users become significant. This speaks to a business problem, that you have dedicated users but only at a skewed low cost.

2. It becomes a political thing that new leaders can use to “make a statement”. This happens when a lifetime tier doesn’t really cost anything at the end of the day, but killing it sends internal messages about thriftiness or just general statements that it’s a new day.

3. Preceding a downsizing of a business that has fixed costs, like x number of human beings need to support y number of users. Chasing away users to reduce y so you can reduce x as well, and getting the lower paid users out is where you want to bleed userbase.

All of that said — these are all functions of poorly conceived lifetime plans. Lifetime plans where the rest of your model is based on monthly recurring revenue should be treated for what they are, which is marketing. Don’t run them for long periods of time, cap them at a reasonable number of users for the spend, etc. And then if you screw that up, whatever you do as a correction, don’t blame the users and be very upfront.

awinder

7 tahun yang laludiscuss

I think I more understood the ethos of where the author was coming from at the end:

“And by all means, we must not push everyone to use Big Mailer Corps“

which is totally fair. For the rest of the article though, it’s pretty clear that the author does admit caveats where any business would have to spend time & money figuring stuff out. And the fact is there is no real cabal of Big Email, it is such a commoditized industry. As a business you pay a pittance to protect downside risks, it’s a no-brainer.

awinder

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  I even wonder if there isn't some sort of Pavlovian response, 
  whenever you listen to Andy Puddicombe voice, you want to 
  meditate

YES. I've wondered the same, it almost seems like a waste if that's not what they're going for because it's right there.

  Understand that these meditation apps (Headspace/Calm) are 
  mostly VC funded , and they don't only want to teach you 
  something, their investors also want some hockey stick 
  curves. There is nothing wrong with that but it also explains 
  how some features are designed.

I don't know if that's completely fair. Both of these seem to really be trying to go after a model where businesses buy group subscriptions as an employee wellness perk. I think there's also untapped potential in trying to team with large healthcare providers because mental health is treated in the US in one of the most cost-ineffective ways, and it isn't even especially an effective way from a patient outcome standpoint either.

Anyways -- that's just all to say that achieving hockey stick growth in a B2B model should create better alignment and it shouldn't mean that they don't want to teach you something, I'm sure lots of people with good hearts are working there & want to do good for people/users.

awinder

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The last time I enjoyed using the Firefox rendering engine on a Mac was back in the Camino days. I’d almost say that that browser is a better Mac experience than Firefox is today.

I’ve started using Safari and it’s actually pretty OK and the resource utilization is a lot better than Chrome (no fans blowing!). I empathize with Firefox making a big deal out of avoiding a monoculture but i really hope they’re figuring out how to do a better job on things like the Mac internally, because I don’t think that people are really going to use an inferior product as some moral statement.

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