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Jan 7, 2004
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Fredo, you're nothing to me now. You're not a brother, you're not a friend. I don't want to know you or what you do. I don't want to see you at the hotels, I don't want you near my house. When you see our mother, I want to know a day in advance, so I won't be there. You understand?

Remember this quote for Al Pacino's in Godfather II? I used this speech with one of my company's employee who betrayed us to join a competitor and even though I was so mad of the situation I felt much better after saying:

Man, you're nothing to me now. You're not a college, you're not a friend. I don't want to know you or what you do. I don't want to see you at the company. If I ever schedule a meeting at your new company, I will let you know one day in advance, so you won't attend it. You understand?

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jeez, get over it. that's the only benefit workers have in capitalism
 

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jeez, get over it. that's the only benefit workers have in capitalism
DB is right, bro. Your oh-so-loyal employer this year may fire your ass tomorrow. And when they do and you end up at the same competitor, boy are you going to look like a complete sh*t.

If there's one thing I've learned in my years of working in software engineering in the SF Bay Area/Silicon Valley: it's a small world, you always come across the same people in different places, and what goes around comes around.

Burning bridges is what they call a CLM -- Career Limiting Move.
 

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it seemed to not know what its aim was,it fell flat as a feel-good movie, didn't really feel like a rom-com and certainly wasn't a black comedy
There was another movie in the same year; 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days which had one thing in common with Juno: Unwanted pregnancy. One is occurred in 1980's Romania, the other in the 2000's US. One is in drama genre and the other is comedy. I liked them both but the interesting part is actually realizing the differences between those two girls. One risked her life to get rid of the child, the other is easily gifting it to another couple :D
 
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DB is right, bro. Your oh-so-loyal employer this year may fire your ass tomorrow. And when they do and you end up at the same competitor, boy are you going to look like a complete sh*t.

If there's one thing I've learned in my years of working in software engineering in the SF Bay Area/Silicon Valley: it's a small world, you always come across the same people in different places, and what goes around comes around.

Burning bridges is what they call a CLM -- Career Limiting Move.
You are a spot on Swag specially the bolded part... but sometimes you can help but to feel betrayed when you give an employee/friend a chance from scratch only for him to screw you at the very first chance.

Anyway, thinking professionally one should never burn a bridge.
 

Fred

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Oct 2, 2003
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DB is right, bro. Your oh-so-loyal employer this year may fire your ass tomorrow. And when they do and you end up at the same competitor, boy are you going to look like a complete sh*t.

If there's one thing I've learned in my years of working in software engineering in the SF Bay Area/Silicon Valley: it's a small world, you always come across the same people in different places, and what goes around comes around.

Burning bridges is what they call a CLM -- Career Limiting Move.
But can't the same be said about footballers?

In which case, it does not give you the right to hate Zlatan and me Ashley Cole.
 

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You are a spot on Swag specially the bolded part... but sometimes you can help but to feel betrayed when you give an employee/friend a chance from scratch only for him to screw you at the very first chance.

Anyway, thinking professionally one should never burn a bridge.
In my first job or two out of college, I probably thought more that way about the guy who left. But with time, I've also learned that often who's loyal today can be screwed over by the company tomorrow. And because industry is always changing, and there are always mergers and acquisitions, you really can't fault someone for looking out for their own self-interests to feed their family, etc.

But can't the same be said about footballers?

In which case, it does not give you the right to hate Zlatan and me Ashley Cole.
That's a real legitimate point, of course. But there are big differences. For one, when I go to work I don't have an entourage of fans holding up posters of me around the office, paying to get in to see me, wearing jerseys with my name on the back of them, making up songs to chant my name, and earning me extra millions on the side by proving their brand loyalty to my commercial product endorsements on TV.

Fandom adds a different dynamic. Otherwise, if it was just between owners and clubs, I think the situations would be much more alike.
 

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You know, it took me a moment to realize that 3/10 was the date, not the rating.

Which lead me to a funny idea: what if someone who does movie reviews always used the same numerator, but just changed the denominator.

Then you'd get ratings like 3/3, 3/10, 3/102, etc. I like it...
 

gray

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You know, it took me a moment to realize that 3/10 was the date, not the rating.

Which lead me to a funny idea: what if someone who does movie reviews always used the same numerator, but just changed the denominator.

Then you'd get ratings like 3/3, 3/10, 3/102, etc. I like it...
That's actuallya really novel idea :pimp:
 

Fred

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In my first job or two out of college, I probably thought more that way about the guy who left. But with time, I've also learned that often who's loyal today can be screwed over by the company tomorrow. And because industry is always changing, and there are always mergers and acquisitions, you really can't fault someone for looking out for their own self-interests to feed their family, etc.



That's a real legitimate point, of course. But there are big differences. For one, when I go to work I don't have an entourage of fans holding up posters of me around the office, paying to get in to see me, wearing jerseys with my name on the back of them, making up songs to chant my name, and earning me extra millions on the side by proving their brand loyalty to my commercial product endorsements on TV.

Fandom adds a different dynamic. Otherwise, if it was just between owners and clubs, I think the situations would be much more alike.
You do have a point. But you have to understand that like any other employee, once the player stops performing as well as he used to, or gets old, or his club finds a better alternative\player. The club won't hesitate to screw him over. So is it not a legitmate right for the player to look out for himself and his own self interest primarily?

you hate someone you never met?
Nope. Never understood hating a football player myself.
 
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