Talking with the CEO

djberg96 on 2002-06-26T17:58:09

Our new CEO has an "open email" policy where any employee may send him an email and he'll actually read it. One of my co-workers sent him an email and got a response back within a day or two.

So, today I sent him a short note explaining why he should consider a donation to the Perl Foundation. :)

I'll keep y'all posted.


Mailing the boss

TorgoX on 2002-06-26T18:12:03

It can't hurt to try. After all, the worst that can happen with emailing the boss is that one finds out who the idiots are. Always a useful thing to know, even if it turns out that the boss is among them.

Re:Mailing the boss

vsergu on 2002-06-26T18:59:20

It can't hurt to try.

You're insufficiently pessimistic. Perhaps the boss is completely unaware that communistic, security-destroying open-source software is being used at the company, and the e-mail would trigger a companywide purge.

Re:Mailing the boss

djberg96 on 2002-06-26T19:20:39

The stock has fallen to 1 3/4 today on news that the company is undergoing scrutiny by the SEC. There's probably going to be a companywide purge of some kind one way or another real soon.

I think I picked a bad day to ask.

Re:Mailing the boss

vek on 2002-06-27T04:38:10

...the company is undergoing scrutiny by the SEC...

Er, ditto but on a somewhat larger scale - sigh...