2019年6月1日
Xero boss: if you don't wash your own coffee cup, don't bother applying for a job
Landing a job at the New Zealand-born, ASX-listed accounting software company won’t necessarily take a Harvard MBA or impressive list of patents — just some good old fashioned manners. Xero Australia managing director Trent Innes opened up about the company’s “wash your own coffee cup” mantra.
The expectation that Xero staffers take care of their own washing up has also extended into the recruitment process. If you’re one of those people that leaves used crockery and cutlery lying around for someone else to deal with, you’re probably ill-suited to a career at Xero.
Innes said that according to his experiential evidence, “most people do” wash their own cups, with only 5-10% of applicants failing the test. For Innes, the test is not just about upholding public hygiene and occupational safety. It’s about determining whether someone has compatible values.
Xero isn’t the only tech disruptor experimenting with unorthodox recruitment techniques.To work for Elon Musk’s SpaceX, you need to clear an interview process that one former employee describes as a “gauntlet”. SpaceX applicants who make it out of the “piles of resumes” and up to four phone screenings are brought onto the campus for a full seven- or eight-hour day of interviews with literally “everyone who might work with them”.
Bollywood music channel become the first YouTube channel to reach 100 million subscribers
After months of video pleas and fan-led campaigns, T-Series has beat out PewDiePie to become the first YouTube channel to hit 100 million subscribers. The channel, ran by an Indian record label that produces Bollywood music, thanked its fans for “being part of out journey.”
At the time T-Series hit the 100-million mark, the subscriber count for gamer-vlogger PewDiePie was at just above 96 million. The battle took on bigger significance as it was became interpreted as a competition between independent creators like PewDiePie and major corporations like T-Series.
Early on, the slogan “subscribe to PewDiePie” became a self-purported rallying cry for fans and other independent YouTube creators, and appeared at the Super Bowl, on billboards, and even on the hacked front page of the Wall Street Journal website. However, the flurried race also took on hateful connotations. The words “subscribe to PewDiePie” were graffitied on a World War II memorial in March.
PewDiePie has also faced criticism for two separate diss tracks he’s released about T-Series containing harmful language. In a congratulatory tweet about T-Series hitting the 100-million mark, YouTube hinted that the Indian music company would be awarded a trophy for its achievement.
Fisher-Price's baby sleeper that was recalled after 30 infant deaths
A Fisher-Price sleeper for babies called the Rock ‘n Play was recalled last month following a slate of infant deaths. It was reportedly designed without medical safety tests and, rather than seeking pediatrician consultations, relied on just a single doctor to determine whether the product was safe.
Since 2009, Fisher-Price sold 4.7 million Rock ‘n Play Sleepers, the newspaper reported, before being recalled after more than 30 babies died in the product. Fisher-price didn’t hire other pediatricians to evaluate the product until years after it was already on the market, as the company faced a product liability lawsuit.
The sleeper’s design, which involved holding babies at a 30-degree reclined angle, was tested without clinical research trials, the Post reported. In an open letter before the item was recalled, Natasha Burgert, a pediatrician from Missouri, wrote that the “design features of this product are known to increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).”
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