Steve Jobs, Dead at 56.

[iflyforpie]

Yup, put him right into the ranks of Jim Pattison or Donald Trump or Michel Leblanc....

[. ._]

Pirates of Silicon Valley portrays Jobs as a bit of a jerk.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/

Not sure how accurate it is.

[straightpilot]

The word around Silicon Valley used to be that to get hired at Apple, you had to have a ponytail and fail a drug test

Mind you, anyone working for Jobs would have to smoke weed, to try to de-stress after another day of hell at the office, working for that tyrant.

Years ago, I remember a guy - Paul Farrell, I think his name was - blew his brains out in the parking lot of Silicon Graphics, I think it was. I guess he didn't enjoy his job as much as he could have.

[grimey]

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/2 ... &hpt=hp_c2

If he'd listened to his doctors AT ALL he'd probably still be alive. Funny thing about alternative medicine... if it worked, it'd just be called medicine.

[azimuthaviation]

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/2 ... &hpt=hp_c2

If he'd listened to his doctors AT ALL he'd probably still be alive. Funny thing about alternative medicine... if it worked, it'd just be called medicine.

He might still be alive, but probably not too much longer, any form of pancreatic cancer is a death sentence unfortunately.

[grimey]

For the form of pancreatic cancer he had, there's a 4-8 year difference in the median survival time had he begun treatment when the cancer was detected, and when it was actually treated. He also ignored doctors advice regarding diet and other issues, which probably didn't help.

[Spokes]

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/2 ... &hpt=hp_c2

If he'd listened to his doctors AT ALL he'd probably still be alive. Funny thing about alternative medicine... if it worked, it'd just be called medicine.

He might still be alive, but probably not too much longer, any form of pancreatic cancer is a death sentence unfortunately.

From What I have read, he ad an uncommon form of Pancreatic Cancer that if caught early enough, and operated on would allow about another 10 years of life.

[The Old Fogducker]

Try doing a Google search on "Steve Jobs + asshole" .... I did so and found ... About 3,280,000 results

He was notorius.

[Beefitarian]

Try doing a Google search on "Steve Jobs + asshole" .... I did so and found ... About 3,280,000 results

He was notorius.

I have Think even if you like the guy and don't believe any of those, that's funny!

[The Old Fogducker]

I've just finished reading a book called "The No Asshole Rule ... Building a civilized workplace, and surviving one that isn't."

The concept is that in your hiring practices, you don't import assholes into your organization in the first place, that if you have any "certified assholes" in the operation ... you treat them like assholes in the same way they have treated those around them in the past or present, and then get rid of them as quickly as you're able. It only takes one asshole on staff to screw up all of the work the whole section is dedicated to, and you can't allow "asshole poisoning" to occur ... sort of a "one bad apple spoils the whole barrel" idea.

That in some types of operations, it is valuable to have an asshole on staff for a short time to serve as an example to those around on how not to act, then get rid of the asshole.

Interesting description of various assholes and how to deal with them throughout the book ... one of the better ones is a senior executive of Southwest Airlines is out doing a tour of various facilities in the network. During his "walkabout" he approaches a ticket counter to find an absolutely irate passenger berating the ticket agent, screaming and yelling, almost purple with rage and seemingly nearly ready to burst a brain aneurism.

The exec watches and listens to the antics of this guy for a few seconds "to get the lay of the land," goes up to the counter, introduces himself to the passenger as Vice President of Customer Service, and says he'll help the customer achieve satisfaction.

So then the exec picks up the guy's suitcase and while walking explains to the passenger that it is unfortunate that he is not receiving the kind of service he expects from Southwest, that obviously the best of the airline is terribly inadequate, that he will be treated in the way he deserves and has demanded, etc.

He walks the fellow over to a competing airline, pulls out his credit card, gives it to this ticket agent, saying "fly this gentleman wherever he wishes to go," turns to the guy and says "And don't ever come back to Southwest Airlines, you're not going to treat any of our staff that way ever again, you're banned from our property."

In the list of greatest assholes of all time, stories of working for Steve Jobs feature prominently.

The book is by Robert I. Sutton PhD http://youtu.be/_LdSB-udpco

Foggy

[grimey]

Jobs might have been the richest guy to die this month, but he's arguably only the second most important technology innovator to die. Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of the C programming language (which C++, Java, C#, and several other languages are based on, and which Unix, Linux, MacOS, and Windows are written in) died a few days after Jobs. If you're reading this, on any computer, you're using software that he made possible.

[flyinggreasemonkey]