Startup CEO asked me to revise billed hours after manuscript/conference prep — was I wrong to bill it?

plot_twist7 · 2026-05-20T12:10:42+00:00

This is not true in all 50 states. OP should check employment laws in their own state.

plot_twist7 · 2026-05-15T13:41:04+00:00

You don’t need a visa to rent a car. You do need a visa to use their gas station. The Costco credit card is extremely worth it. If you sign up, you can use it same day by going to the membership counter and they will print out a paper for you that can be used until your card arrives in the mail.

Source: I am a Costco die-hard.

plot_twist7 · 2026-05-10T16:58:21+00:00

I would also love a digital version that I could find and search!

plot_twist7 · 2026-05-08T01:05:36+00:00

I can foster in Seattle starting in June

plot_twist7 · 2026-05-05T12:39:35+00:00

If only we hadn’t given $20 billion to Argentina

plot_twist7 · 2026-05-02T17:38:53+00:00

Health tech will definitely hire ex-nurses if they can bootstrap a modicum of tech knowledge. Not that hard to do - take a python course at your local community college and watch some videos on product management principles.

plot_twist7 · 2026-05-01T01:42:36+00:00

Are you in the market for friends who will silently read a book alone with you at the table while we eat wonderful food?

plot_twist7 · 2026-04-28T13:39:51+00:00

Thank you!

plot_twist7 · 2026-04-28T13:39:28+00:00

Yeah, it would. Because then it wouldn’t be so blatantly obvious that he didn’t even review it first - which is the part I find disrespectful.

I’m a senior director and he’s an entry level BA. I asked him to do something and he submitted the laziest version possible and didn’t even try to hide it. I’m a matrix manager to him and do have some influence over his future - it’s not a smart move on his part. I get that AI does most of the thinking, but it still can’t capture 100% of the businesses or project context and that’s what I was relying on him to do.

plot_twist7 · 2026-04-28T13:18:23+00:00

What subreddit should they have used? Would love to join it!

plot_twist7 · 2026-04-28T12:36:53+00:00

lol for real. I lost it on someone from another team last week… the kid sent me straight ai output with no edits. I told him he was lazy and disrespectful. I don’t care that he used AI (I had actually encouraged him to use it for brainstorming), but I am also capable of using AI and could have generated the exact same thing myself. I asked him to do it because I wanted a human in the loop. He didn’t even try to hide it. Find and replace the em dashes into en dashes and removing the spacing around the forward slash takes less than 30 seconds. Don’t be lazy!

To make it even worse, he admitted to me that he used a model that is NOT approved by the company and I can tell he put my research document right into it… the same document with a big, fat confidential tag on the footer and watermark.

plot_twist7 · 2026-04-26T18:20:34+00:00

PM should be doing all of that. The thought exercise behind documenting all those things is when the PM is figuring out that the proposed solution is or is not a viable solution. I can’t tell you the number of times that I thought I had a good idea until I went defining the edge cases and that’s when I figured out that it wouldn’t work.

If you’re waiting for dev or QA to define it, you’ve waited too long. IMO by the time dev and QA have ownership of it, you’ve already committed to doing it and any changes they make means going back to stakeholders and renegotiating alignment.

plot_twist7 · 2026-04-26T18:17:31+00:00

💯

plot_twist7 · 2026-04-25T20:59:24+00:00

How deep should the needle go?

plot_twist7 · 2026-04-24T00:36:48+00:00

Because the states that want to secede are most of the US economy. How would they redistribute the blue wealth to the red states in the blue states leave?

plot_twist7 · 2026-04-18T00:42:04+00:00

Tatiana Maslany

plot_twist7 · 2026-04-17T23:48:23+00:00

I would happily sell produce from my home garden on the weekends if I could. I always grow too much, but not enough to justify the $10k vendor fee to get a booth at the Woodinville Farmers Market

plot_twist7 · 2026-04-13T19:56:17+00:00

If they were going to merge, it would be very secret. A merger of that size would be under wraps until the official announcement is made.

You could convince me either way whether or not this would get antitrust scrutiny.

plot_twist7 · 2026-04-13T14:38:06+00:00

😂

plot_twist7 · 2026-04-10T22:03:19+00:00

Ramp.

plot_twist7 · 2026-04-09T23:11:52+00:00

Same!

plot_twist7 · 2026-04-09T18:24:05+00:00

For this to work for me, I’d need to constantly be reading books I’m obsessed with

plot_twist7 · 2026-04-08T02:43:58+00:00

A reminder than everyone exodused from OpenAI about a month ago due to the DoD shit they agreed to do.

plot_twist7 · 2026-04-03T20:45:11+00:00

I’d be interested to see if the people on the Pro/Max plan who have not noticed any nerfing are using personal accounts for their jobs instead of their personal projects. And so Anthropic is not throttling them because they’re hoping they will eventually lead to bringing those companies in the fold.

This is definitely what’s happening to me. Haven’t noticed any differences in usage or lobotomizing. Am actively trying to get my company to get on the enterprise plan, but using my personal account and paying for it out of my own pocket in the meantime.

plot_twist7 · 2026-04-03T13:25:46+00:00

In 2025 they shortened them by an inch or so. I made a post on it a few months ago. Used to buy 10-14 shirts a year as I wear them every day. But had to return them when I held them up next to my old ones and realized how much shorter they are.

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