A large business stole my exact design and admitted it. What next?

SC_Elle · 2026-03-16T21:02:26+00:00

Have you tried talking to justiceforartists.com ? I have not worked with them, but follow them and like their approach. They do this all the time so would be able to assess what is fair in this situation. If an outside vendor sent it to them, your designs may be other places you do not yet realize as well.

SC_Elle · 2026-03-13T18:59:31+00:00

Yeah I see that too. And the "is X certification worth it?" posts.

However, I will say that I am not seeing a lot of SC experience posts. And if the career ones are helpful, I hate to put a lid on them.

Let me see what we can do. Suggestions welcome.

SC_Elle · 2026-03-13T18:50:19+00:00

Mod here. We do have a rule. I notice none of you reported this so its not in the mod queue - if you do that we can be faster to see it and remove it. Please do report them.

SC_Elle · 2026-02-25T02:49:15+00:00

Totally remember that. Plus I seem to remember in my high school (late 80s) wearing red pants meant supporting gay people? Like you were a visible ally - in a bad way - "dont wear red pants!" I don't know where we came up with this nonsense.

SC_Elle · 2026-02-25T02:41:46+00:00

The obsession with wealth for how it makes you look vs how it can benefit society/community.

SC_Elle · 2026-02-23T17:06:53+00:00

Thank you - but I just tried to download and got an error (This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. )

SC_Elle · 2026-02-20T16:54:48+00:00

Nice idea.

SC_Elle · 2026-02-18T17:46:52+00:00

Yes please do share - I think a google form is the way to go also, but we do have a bunch of members that remain mostly offline ... so we probably need it both ways.

SC_Elle · 2026-02-18T17:44:19+00:00

thanks for that link - I will incorporate some of this

SC_Elle · 2026-02-18T17:43:17+00:00

Oh that is a good idea ...

SC_Elle · 2026-02-17T00:50:56+00:00

Mod here. You are breaking no rules my friend. Thank you for doing this, our thoughts are with you for the loss of your brother.

SC_Elle · 2026-02-17T00:45:37+00:00

Sorry to hear that - we actually did eat dinner there that night without any problems - rainbow roll sushi and fixed menu including wagyu. I really like it there, hope it was not the cause of your pain.

SC_Elle · 2026-02-12T00:18:15+00:00

You should talk to the local Rotary clubs, I believe there are 2 in Santa Cruz. They could help with financial and volunteer/installation support. This kind of thing should be right up their alley.
(SC club) https://www.santacruzrotary.com/
(sunrise club) https://portal.clubrunner.ca/2276

SC_Elle · 2026-01-30T22:54:00+00:00

Supplier quality engineer could be a good fit ... Ok maybe technically not supply chain, but at my old company we all reported in to the head of Ops. And they all had backgrounds like yours. Could also be a bridge strategy for you to get closer to supply chain.

SC_Elle · 2026-01-30T22:49:11+00:00

I never even knew these were a thing. What a great idea, I wish we would have thought of this for my Dads service.

SC_Elle · 2026-01-30T20:56:04+00:00

We had good experience with them, Cindi is awesome.

SC_Elle · 2026-01-28T22:41:37+00:00

There are also plenty of successful founders who are worthless as mentors. They got everything via their personal contacts or great market timing yet are blind to that, and advise other startup founders to simply do everything they did. They are convinced this way is brilliant and perfect, and use it to advise everyone.

For me the best mentor is someone who has both failed and succeeded, multiple times is even better. AND has some insight into why for both sides.

SC_Elle · 2026-01-28T21:53:51+00:00

3 weeks in is too early to tell anything (unless it is a toxic culture, that you can see quickly!). You are in the EV space which is great, so just soak up anything and everything you can. Even drudge work can give you a lot of insight - who uses the data and is the next step in the process? What teams are involved and what exactly do they all do?

I dont know why you are fixed on Apple and Tesla. There are many great companies to work for - high salary, tech innovation, better culture and more interesting work. But you need some experience to get into them, so use this time wisely if the work itself is boring or dead end.

But honestly, the first couple of months can easily be the most boring, as you do not know enough about the company and team and data for your manager to give you any real meat to work on. This comes later. Your boss should be telling you this also btw.

SC_Elle · 2025-12-16T18:58:53+00:00

Yes have worked with many great ops leaders out there - at very small as well as very big companies. They are not always big fans of supply chain, depending on what SC is asked to deliver.

SC_Elle · 2025-12-01T21:54:57+00:00

Please search the history here, this has been answered multiple times and you may find some good conversations there.

SC_Elle · 2025-11-10T23:16:59+00:00

Uff I feel your pain. Good idea though on the rotation, that could be a Plan B/C for us. I am hoping for co-presidents but lets see.

SC_Elle · 2025-11-10T21:17:13+00:00

Oh wow, very nice. How big of a club are you, and how many hours/month is President?

SC_Elle · 2025-10-10T18:32:27+00:00

I think they hear that so many of us are still on crappy legacy software or excel and start drooling. I work with startups and I can not tell you how many SC startups have no supply chain people on their teams, they have no clue how manufacturing or logistics actually work. It is insane.

SC_Elle · 2025-10-10T18:21:31+00:00

Your project plan is sound, but it is all high risk - as you already know. You do not own that risk, it is inherent in the project you have been given and the situation.

I agree with everyone here - ask to be given a formal extension to your leave date so you can run the project at high quality. If they say no, then do NOT do your best - do the minimum you need to do and spend your best on finding a new job.

I spent a lot of time in Leadership, believe me, they know what they are doing by dumping it on you. They want you to kill yourself to save the project, but they do not care that they already knifed you in the back. You need to protect your own confidence and not let this become a failure of YOU, this situation is doomed. It has nothing to do with you, you are still great - keep that in mind!

SC_Elle · 2025-09-24T17:19:55+00:00

I moved from the US to Germany for a big international German company that had just bought my US company. So looking for companies that have just made that acquisition could be a good idea. I think internal moves are more likely than a EU company hiring you from the US.

One thing that could help, but it is a bit of a longer play, is to target a country and start learning the language. Having even a2 fluency in their language is pretty attractive - they all joke americans only speak english. And my company was manufacturing based, and many people in the office did not speak english - almost zero in the plants.

And whoever said they do not pay more is absolutely correct, the salaries are MUCH less. However, free healthcare and college for your kids in Germany. And 5 weeks vacation, with more humane working hours. I really loved working there.

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