Holy shit, I was going to comment that every time I visited hn yesterday I started singing in my head: alllll the single founderssss, allllll the single founders. This is awesome.
Thanks! That was one of my favorite lines in the song -- name checking you keeps the structure of the original intact while cleaning it up and geekifying it in the bargain. It was also the inspiration for hyperlinking everything because I was pretty sure most people would miss that joke otherwise.
Thanks. I probably won't make a big deal out of it until I am physically separated from the day job. (I wrote this post at something like 2 AM and that line make it past my internal editor.)
My employers and I are negotiating the details of my departure. They'd prefer if I stayed until August, I'd rather leave in about April. (Strictly speaking my contract allows me to give them two weeks of notice rather than several months but I am quitting a job you just don't quit, and I don't want to burn any bridges or poison the well for their future foreign employees.)
The social norm for men who work in my status (seishain (正社員), company employee) is that we have essentially guaranteed employment to retirement and that in return for this we work extraordinarily diligently for our employers until retirement.
My relationship to this social norm as a foreigner is a little weird.
