Who had Tony Hsieh in their deathpool?

[Dan Druff]

i hesitate to say this because fuck man what a shitty way to die, but building codes are pretty straight forward when it comes to homes having egress points in case of fire pretty much everywhere.

again im not trying to cast any shade here but that explanation seems to be designed to save face here.

I don’t think you are wrong.

Known to be incredibly nice, but out there.

A lot of his ideas were praised as revolutionary but in reality were terrible and just covered up by massive growth. Once the growth dropped off a lot of that stuff imploded.

Things like nobody having a boss, no job titles, make your own job description, etc.

Sad though cause he was so young.

I saw some of this in my dealings with them.

For example, there was this really tilting problem where sometimes the site would demand a credit card to pay for tax, even if your gift card balance could easily cover the tax.

This wasn't intended. It was a bug.

I alerted them to it, but years went by and it was never fixed.

Finally I called up, asked for a manager, and told the guy I knew the exact steps to reproduce the bug, and also why it was probably happening. I offered to write this up and send it to them.

"Oh, we get this complaint several times a day for years," he said. "The developers are very aware of it."

"Then why don't they fix it?!", I inquired. "This has to be a simple fix."

"It probably is, but the developers... they work on what they want. They don't listen to anyone. They just don't feel like doing this, and it doesn't get done."


I thought, "This company has some real management issues."