Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:49:08 -0400 From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: The Truth: some CEOs say, don't hire unemployed Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> On 06/15/12 10:25, Walter Miles wrote: > On 06/14/12, mark wrote: >> Excerpt: >> From the Startup Rules of Josh James, founder and CEO of Domo, the >> all-star executive who also co-founded Omniture and took it from >> inception to IPO to sale for $1.8B to Adobe: > >> "Rule 45: No Unemployed Candidates. Always an Excuse. Too Risky. >> Top-Rated, Currently Employed Candidates Who Won't Leave = PERFECT." > >> With all due respect for your accomplishments, Josh, I disagree. > > That's what liberals never understand: if it wasn't for all the *unemployed*, > *Unemployment* wouldn't be so high. The solution ain't to restrict the freedom > to innovate by not hirin' anybody who needs a job of the heroes of our > entrepreneurial society, but to expand another, more worthy, government program: > the President's kill list. Expand it. A lot. > > And, then! I find out they're even protestin' that! I's mindin' my own business, > tryin' to get on the list to stop folks callin' me up to sell me credit default > swaps and exceedingly specialized undergarments for purposes that perhaps should > not be discussed at length on this list, when I ran across this travesty: > > https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/create-do-not-kill-list/HwqFwRtG > > What's gonna happen to this country if people keep on bein' able to say what > they really think instead of what they oughtta be sayin'? > > Well, I better crawl back inside my cardboard box now and ducttape shut the door. > And y'all better not be comin' around if you know what's good for ya. > > God bless you, Hey, may I hand you your Stetson tinfoil hat? One o' them thar unemployed might steal it, and start realizing the TRVTH! mark "and Ghu (purple be His Name) bless you!" -- Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government. -- John Perry Barlow