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To: w0z who wrote (1314)	5/29/2014 1:00:36 PM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 26612

Agree. Remember too that under Platt they targeted 100 women for extra mentoring to move them ahead of more qualified men into upper management as a way to make up for not enough women entering engineering programs after high school. I believe this was the start of the "brain drain" where more qualified men left for where they were appreciated. Jesse Jackson is what is wrong with the country. He should picket high schools for not training enough women to enter the far more difficult engineering field over medicine or law. I was on the UC Berkeley recruiting team for HP for ten years after I graduated. We'd jump through almost any hoop to get an AA candidate to work for us and the competition from the big firms had us hiring people with the desired last name or skin color after their freshman years while more qualified people like myself didn't get in until after our Junior years. Jackson is no idiot... he goes after deep pockets as they, rather than the schools, can spend money to make him more money and fame.

To: w0z who wrote (1314)	5/16/2015 2:22:54 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26612

These articles and stories of how Ellison and Musk are SOBs and Jobs was a SOB to workers really makes me appreciate how great Bill and Dave were as founders of HP and keepers of "The HP Way" until they died and that Carly women started the HP way on the path of destruction. Why Tesla employees fear Elon Musk - Business Insider I try really hard to back away and put my ego aside. Elon is incredibly difficult to work for, but it's mostly because he's so passionate. He can be impatient and say, 'God damn it! This is what we have to do!' and some people will get shell-shocked and catatonic. It seems like people can get afraid of him and paralyzed in a weird way. An anonymous former Tesla employee also described his experience working with Musk to Vance, saying workers were "tossed to the curb like a piece of litter:" Elon's worst trait by far, in my opinion, is a complete lack of loyalty or human connection. Many of us worked tirelessly for him for years and were tossed to the curb like a piece of litter without a second thought. Maybe it was calculated to keep the rest of the workforce on their toes and scared; maybe he was just able to detach from human connection to a remarkable degree. What was clear is that people who worked for him were like ammunition: used for a specific purpose until exhausted and discarded. Read more: businessinsider.com