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Category: Anecdotes

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The Intern and the Manager Who Couldn’t Let Go

Friend, Wake Up: You’re Not Inheriting the Company This happened to a friend’s cousin: She landed her first tech internship full of excitement. Fresh out of university, no real experience in an office like that, but determined to prove she deserved to stay. One summer Monday she got a desk and a laptop. And that’s […]

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The Intern, the Windowless Building

Friend, Wake Up: You’re Not Inheriting the Company This happened to a friend who told me about it as she was living through it, week by week. She found this internship through the university’s job placement office, tied to a training program: evening classes on top of university classes and an eight-hour workday, eight to […]

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The Impossible 24-Hour Project

Friend, Wake Up: You’re Not Inheriting the Company This one I heard from a former coworker at an old job. One time the company approved an unusually large budget increase, and someone had to design a full investment project to put it to use. From scratch. From the title page, literally. It had to be […]

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The Day They Hired Me by Mistake

Friend, Wake Up: You’re Not Inheriting the Company This happened to a friend, all because of a hiring mistake nobody at the company wanted to own up to. At the time it was rough, today he tells it as a story so ridiculous that people barely believe he actually lived through it. They say first […]

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