Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for The Man

Re:Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for... by tptacek on Thursday October 01, 2009 @03:11PM (#855583)

Big companies have infinitely more to lose. Something else I've seen repeatedly in my career: even frivolous claims of harassment are settled with cash, because the cost to fight them is too high.

You can't do that with a tiny startup because there's not enough to sue for.

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Re:Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for... by jacquesm on Thursday October 01, 2009 @06:35PM (#855999)

The outcome of such lawsuits and the possibility to settle them for cash varies greatly with location.

In the USA you'd be right, in Europe or Asia much less so.

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Re:Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for... by cakesy on Thursday October 01, 2009 @10:40PM (#856318)

Well, they clearly don't have infinitely more to lose, that is ridiculous. Don't throw that word around, it make you look stupid to mathematicians, and you don't want to make a mathematician angry, They understand the language of the universe.

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Re:Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for... by tptacek on Thursday October 01, 2009 @11:01PM (#856338)

So they can what? Talk to the universe? I'm so scared.

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