CaspianXIWhat's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there?
ChickenLadyLovesLifeI used to work for a cable company whose name rhymes with “bombast”. They offer a wifi service whose name is a derivation of the word “infinity”. Most of the hotspots for this wifi service are provided by the Bombast wireless routers that cable customers have in their homes. So if you’re a Bombast customer, you’re helping to pay the electrical bill and giving up bandwidth in order to provide Infinity wifi.
Another fun Bombast story: the founder, a man who always wore a bowtie, died a few years ago. At a memorial service in his honor, a number of vice presidents and other executives (including my boss at the time) wore bowties. Everyone who wore a bowtie to the service was fired within a week.
I don’t understand the bow tie thing, that just seems petty. Why would they fire them?
Not the OP, but my speculation? The new folks in charge didn’t like the founder and the people who looked up to him and wanted to take the company in a completely different direction.
They likely already knew who the loyalists were before the funeral, but if not, those who self identified by wearing bowties would work just as well.