i can't let this one go by

[rone]

I'm guessing you're "stealth" because you don't have the stones to face the brunt of ridicule over your outrageously low offer of $55k for someone to do *everything* for your office.  You're detailing work that will take, at a minimum, 14 hours a day.  No one person is going to be able to work that much and do a GOOD job at it.

Get a goddamned clue.  Hell, get a six-pack of clues.  Hire enough people for the job and PAY THEM WHAT THEY'RE WORTH.  You need two people: an IT guru and an office manager.  You are NOT going to get anyone worth more than shit for $55k, in either job, let alone both.  Your company is in a crucial stage, and getting an idiot or an incompetent now is going to hamstring your company.  You will regret it, guaranteed.  You should be looking at about $70k for the office manager and $85k for the IT person, MINIMUM.  Don't fucking argue with me!  Just fucking do it.

A dog walker?  You people are fucking insane.  It's not 1998 anymore.  You aren't going to get naïve chumps who will work for stock options.  Get real!

rone

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[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

...We are developing software and hardware products for the movie, television, and consumer gaming markets. The company was recently formed, venture backed, and has 8 people now...

Oh, for fuck's sake. So, lemme get this straight... some VC bastard swallowed your ten page Powerpoint presentation and liked the smell of your ass, so now you're going to spend a bunch of his money training yourselves in how startups die, so that the next time he needs to staff up something that actually has a prayer of working out, you'll feel like you owe him for getting you started in the business.

I'm so impressed... with eight people, you're going to build hardware and software, i.e. embedded firmware for your fucking hardware, plus whatever other software you need for managing the firmware load, oh my christicle on a skewer... eight fucking people, with plans for twenty-five even by the end of the year.

You'll be lucky if you get past the stage of building a nice cardboard box that looks like the cool hardware you want to sell.

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

Do I sound like I'm gloating over the fact that my hardware shipped? Why yes, I am.

Come on, their parents are putting up a lot of money

[mouseworks.livejournal.com]

...to get them out of the basement.

Re: Come on, their parents are putting up a lot of money

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

The basement isn't World Headquarters?

Re: Come on, their parents are putting up a lot of money

[mouseworks.livejournal.com]

They're hiring someone to move them out of the basement, obviously.