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TIL the first CEO of Apple was not Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak, but Michael Scott (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 11 months ago by Blaze to c/til@lemmy.ca

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On February 25, 1981, the day known as "Black Wednesday" at the company, Scott personally fired forty Apple employees, including half of the Apple II team, in a belief that they were redundant. Later in the afternoon he assembled the remaining employees with a keg of beer and explained the firings by stating, "I used to say that when being CEO at Apple wasn't fun anymore, I'd quit. But now I've changed my mind — when it isn't fun any more, I'll fire people until it's fun again."

He sounds like a massive douche.

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah that's the moment when you stand on the keg and start organizing all the workers to strike and until that dude is gone