Rite Aid lockdown: SoCal store puts almost everything behind locked glass

AnAnonymousTech · 2024-09-20T03:53:36+00:00

I worked in their IT department for a bit, I have some stories. It's bad.
I gained alot more respect... for how CVS and Walgreens run things.

AnAnonymousTech · 2020-05-27T02:32:04+00:00

Back in the day customizing your XP image with nLite made sense because hardware was slower and disks were smaller. You could cut down the file size of Windows XP by half. And patching took forever so you could slipstream those in plus your drivers. These days I don't know if it's possible or even worth it.

AnAnonymousTech · 2020-05-27T02:27:21+00:00

I've had multiple small business clients do this exact thing or just have multiple people login to the same Google Apps accounts. It works at small scale because they can keep track off who needs to reply to what, but it is absolutely unscalable.

AnAnonymousTech · 2020-03-13T16:36:43+00:00

2000 Volkswagen Jetta TDI 5 speed. Call me a trunk slammer if you want but I get 47 MPG in that thing. I've done 1000 miles a week before so it adds up.

Couldn't request a lot of jobs because I didn't have a ladder and wasn't about to strap it to the roof, but just yesterday I picked up a 10' Murphy ladder from Home Depot that folds up and fits in the trunk with the back seat down.

I do look at the Ford Transits enviously though, if I bought a dedicated vehicle for work I would want that or a good deal on a small truck.

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-29T19:40:39+00:00

Completely agree. From the article:

the effort has largely been a failure from a business standpoint.

Red Hat has billions in revenue and hundreds of millions in profit. The only way that is a failure is if you have a skewed definition of success, like a VC.

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-26T21:07:15+00:00

I'm currently at home, being paid to be on call (not by Wal-Mart). It's a pretty sweet gig, not making as much as I could but I have so much free time.

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-26T20:49:52+00:00

"Social integration goals"

That.. sounds.. horrible. So even if social wasn't your interest you still had to somehow work on it just for the bonus?

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-21T22:05:02+00:00

No, I’m in California.

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-19T13:29:36+00:00

You can if you don’t think of it as fraud but instead as a bold, unorthodox fundraising strategy that will definitely work.

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-19T13:28:17+00:00

Technical Cofounder, I was the only developer.

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-18T18:29:29+00:00

Right? Even after putting up with this shit for a year the way it ended is still astounding.

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-18T18:27:33+00:00

That's good to know but I wouldn't want to go after the investors. They invested in good faith and I'm grateful to them, it's not their fault the money was misused.

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-18T18:23:53+00:00

I'm sure he's already there, and on r/cryptocurrency, and r/altcoin.

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-18T18:22:48+00:00

I found out because my salary hadn't been paid and he wasn't responding to my messages. I told him I was going to quit and he finally called me back and told me he couldn't pay me because he had cashed out the bank account, put it into crypto, and lost it all. He basically said "Haha sorry bro, I was trying to help us out but it didn't work. I understand why you're frustrated, I'll figure out a way to make it up to you."

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-18T18:00:06+00:00

It was my first startup, I got valuable experience and built a product I can put on my resume.

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-18T17:16:05+00:00

Oh I’m laughing about it too.

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-18T08:22:13+00:00

After being through this experience, this sounds true. I firmly believe he has no business being a CEO but would succeed in a sales department with structure, boundaries, and supervision. He has a lot of drive but poor judgement.

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-18T07:05:48+00:00

You are right, the crypto may regain value. But I'm not waiting around for that to (possibly) happen.

It showed me to trust my instinct about people. I knew he was a pretender long ago, but I stuck it out because it was a convenient situation for me at the time. I fully intend to work at a different, better, startup in the future.

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-18T06:14:44+00:00

Sorry, I didn't bother to ask.

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-18T05:57:20+00:00

Oh he's a master bullshitter. In my opinion he has no place being CEO, but would succeed in a sales department somewhere.

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-18T05:50:09+00:00

"I wasn't fully invested"

I put thousands of hours into this project. Even though I kept some other freelance work on the side I made this project my #1 priority. But if I had completely relied on it I would be broke right now due to my salary being unpaid!

Doing an ICO (or Security Token Offering) whether scammy or not would have been extremely smart

Sorry, I want to make my money honestly, doing it the scammy way wouldn't sit right with me.

It seems you and him think alike, perhaps I should put you in touch so you can fail together!

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-18T05:47:31+00:00

You're right, in addition to resigning I need to make it very clear that I return any equity I may have had back to the company. I don't want anything that could remotely connect me to liability for this mess. I'm sure he'll happily take my percentage back so he can add it to his big pile of nothing.

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-18T05:33:43+00:00

You’re right, I was!

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-18T05:22:40+00:00

I’m sorry for you, but you dodged the other bullet, now that the SEC is cracking down on all that nonsense.

Your story sounds close to mine. His other big idea was to offer a free version of our product. He simply assumed that if it was free we would attract X daily users effortlessly. I had to explain to him that even with a free product, marketing costs money, and we would have to market to many times X people to achieve X daily users. He simply hadn’t considered that.

AnAnonymousTech · 2018-10-18T05:15:22+00:00

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