"About a month in, our interim leader returned to Korea, and a woman was brought in who had worked at several video game companies.
She used to know our CEO’s in college. She was kind, thoughtful, and attentive. I knew the company would eat her alive.
After our boss departed, I took over a few of his duties. One of them was “viral marketer.” I was now creating ad campaigns on Facebook in an attempt to bring monthly active users to the site.
I had no training. I was acting on one hunch and instinct after another. Yet, I was good.
A month or two passed without incident, and then we lost a team member. Unable to withstand the workload and the move, she left to be with her boyfriend. We all made fun of her for it."
Seems like the "other side of the story" from Tess. Doesn't make her look any better...
CAREFUL! That link has a boobytrapped payload that roots Android devices and installs malware (latest Android 6.0 device). Probably a dodgy ad network injecting it.
Well, what if we already opened the link on a 6.0 Android device? Can I check in some manner whether it's infected or do I just have to treat it as untrustworthy and trash it?
Thanks for the reply! This isn't very clear to me. I actually opened the link in a new tab with Firefox for Android, had Firefox ask me for permission to access my camera and mike(?), denied those and closed the tab as I read pascalmemories' comment i.e. I never actually saw the content, so "you would have to download the app they spammed with vibrates" doesn't mean anything to me. Perhaps that's a good thing? :)
I've turned off the phone for now, and it's not 6.0, rather it's 6.x (up to date with August 2016 patches IIRC), not sure if that makes a difference. I'm mostly worried about the malware being a drive-by download/infection.
I was browsing in Chrome with a brand new phone which thankfully did not have anything on it. Despite clearing all the app data (which normally cleans out browse-by if it's just annoying page javascript in my experience) the damn vibrate, play noises and throw multiple pop-ups just kept on coming and would not let me close them.
I had to resort to a factory wipe to clean it; it was not a great deal since it was a phone I'd literally today just taken out the box, but if it had been something I had data on and used for a while, it would have been a serious PITA.
I suspect the ad network malware pumper saw the visit spike and decided the traffic volume warranted an exploit delivery instead of their usual junk ad content.
So, if I start my phone and browse normally, and don't see, hear, or feel any popups, noises, or vibrations, I'm good? And perhaps I should clear out my Firefox app data? I shut it down because you mentioned root and malware, and if the malware can root a device, it probably can hide itself pretty well and make it impossible to get it out.
"A real start up company is populated by a shark tank full of thieves, corrupt business people, unscrupulous investors, and fickle employees" WTF? So you're not a 'real start up' unless you've got a bunch of corrupt criminals running the show?
that was about another company, and in the last few minutes the site turned into some kind of scam. I guess someone is actively monitoring this thread.
Thought so too, but the timelines don't match, since she mentions stuff about Xmas.
Still, my jaw dropped a few more cm after reading those sentences, and believe me, it was already on the floor after reading the medium piece.
i'm seriously laughing my ass off literally right now... this chick just keeps finding herself scammed by startups time after time, it's kind of hilarious and sad at the same time, especially because it seems like she's still kind of positive about it lol.
Amazing point of view. they've either really drunk the koolaid, or are trying to force it down someone else's throats.
linkedin, indeed and monster are "not helping anyone but themselves". really? that's really how you are pitching (internally or externally)? that's how you view linkedin? only helping themselves? There's many criticisms you can level at LI, indeed and others, but they do help many people beyond themselves. This shows an incredible naïveté about the business world, imo, or maybe just an incredible "rah rah - let's just keep repeating stuff" mindset.
After our boss departed, I took over a few of his duties. One of them was “viral marketer.” I was now creating ad campaigns on Facebook in an attempt to bring monthly active users to the site.
I had no training. I was acting on one hunch and instinct after another. Yet, I was good.
A month or two passed without incident, and then we lost a team member. Unable to withstand the workload and the move, she left to be with her boyfriend. We all made fun of her for it."
Seems like the "other side of the story" from Tess. Doesn't make her look any better...
http://theunderemployedlife.com/working-start-almost-killed-...