One of the commenters on the NY Times site said it best:
"My experience is that a lot depends on your boss. I always got my work done quickly and thoroughly, but I've had bosses who made you sit in your chair even when there was nothing to do, I've had other bosses who were much more accommodating. It is about the culture of the department. My best job was in a very hard working engineering department, when we were on deadline we worked killer hours, but when things were slack, we went home. Everyone had kids, family outings were encouraged and our boss took us to lunch and treated us like humans. I worked my butt off for that boss. When I have had a boss who treats me like a child, I act like one. If you treat people with dignity and respect and give them time off when they need it, they will work harder."
I'd recommend looking at Pipedrive -- you can do pretty much everything you listed and they integrate with many other services, too:
https://www.pipedrive.com/en-US/features
The Techweek drama aside, what do you think of Sean's post? I admire and applaud his bravery in admitting he hasn't done enough in the past and will do better in the future.
In the United States, 77.8% of homicide victims are male.
But no, Sean is having a public anxiety attack because a company chose a photograph of two actual attendees in a photo booth who chose chose to dress slightly more provocatively than his sensibilities allow.
Sean isn't being brave. He's sucking up to women in an extremely politically expedient way.
True! It seems slightly hypocritical though. I think Techweek reacted pretty much the same way - accidentally did something offensive and reacted quickly when it was pointed out - but he's not willing to forgive them.
Whether you realize it or not, the US competes with many countries for top talent, including Australia, New Zealand and the UK (which have all done more to encourage skilled migration than our country). If this passes, it's a solid step to making us more competitive.
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At the moment? Nothing. In fact, I only have the bare minimum functionality required to fairly label an application as a "email newsletter service" (that is, handling subscribers and sending emails).
I'm hoping that as people sign up and try it out I'll gather feedback and be able to discover niches or problems that the big guys aren't handling well. It will be a slow, iterative process so I might need a few months before having an answer to your question.
I fully intend to move away from a generic "e-mail newsletters for small businesses" to a more specific and addressable niche in the future.
Hi T,
What you're doing sounds similar to Skweal, which allows customers to reach management privately rather than complaining publicly, though not anonymously -- see http://skweal.com/
With complainator, I'd like to know how you inform the business of the complaint so they can fix it?
Ok. I looked at skweal.com. It's one of the use cases that I considered.
The problem is that businesses have to activate account with Skweal upfront. I am talking more about complaining to teacher of your son, to your coworker who makes annoying noises, to the post office about postman etc.
You have to know business' email. I plan to allow also sending physical mail when you know the address. That would be service where I would probably charge for. Some of the businesses can't even be reachable via email anymore.
"My experience is that a lot depends on your boss. I always got my work done quickly and thoroughly, but I've had bosses who made you sit in your chair even when there was nothing to do, I've had other bosses who were much more accommodating. It is about the culture of the department. My best job was in a very hard working engineering department, when we were on deadline we worked killer hours, but when things were slack, we went home. Everyone had kids, family outings were encouraged and our boss took us to lunch and treated us like humans. I worked my butt off for that boss. When I have had a boss who treats me like a child, I act like one. If you treat people with dignity and respect and give them time off when they need it, they will work harder."