Correction: There was no hangman's noose, claims Hyperloop countersuit ... it was a cowboy's lasso An extraordinary fight at tube-travel company Hyperloop One has hit warp speed with a court filing filled with more wild claims. Faced with accusations of physical threats, financial mismanagement and nepotism in a lawsuit from its former CTO Brogan BamBrogan, the company's management has fired back with a 46-page cross- …
Well except for the ridiculous amounts of tax dollars that are being wasted in conjunction with this. The (US - and I'm sure other) military has some colorful wording for situations such as this.
And the pic of the rope shows is that they don't know how to tie a noose or a Honda knot. Which only adds to the depth of their lack of knowledge.
If I was given such a dumb name by my parents I'd be pissed off and angry most of the time too.
"Hey Cletus, wouldn't it be goddarn funny if we like, gave him a first name like his last name! Rhymes see! Huh huh huh!"
"Dixie Mae Magnolia , I just love the way ya think babe! Huh huh huh! Now where's my f***kin buffalo wings b*tch?!"
His parents weren't that stupid/mean as to give him such a dumb name, he and his wife chose it as a surname when they married. It's a trainwreck word1 of their first names, Bambi and Brogan - BamBrogan.
No really.
1. I know the proper term is portmanteau word but in this case trainwreck word seems a better fit.
"His parents weren't that stupid/mean as to give him such a dumb name, he and his wife chose it as a surname when they married. It's a trainwreck word1 of their first names, Bambi and Brogan - BamBrogan."
Must've been a run on sick buckets when that was announced to their families. What a pair of muppets.
"Someday we might be able to buy a ticket on a hyper loop and avoid long car drives but I am fairly confident to say it won't be because of anything these assclowns have done or will ever do."
I just love the way they invented a cool name for something that doesn't yet exist, and even if it ever does come to pass, is just an update on a Victorian era pneumatic railway.
Even if only half of the accusations (on both sides) are true then this is a very toxic place to work and I'd want to be well out... except that I could probably put up with anything if I was getting paid anywhere near what that PR advisor gets.
Wouldn't this be considered a PR disaster? Perhaps they need to hire a more expensive PR advisor..
They have a mountain or two of obstacles to overcome to make their system commercially viable. If they pay 40k *per month* (it makes half a million per year...) a PR which wouldn't help to resolve anything of that (but some exec bed needs, it looks), I wonder how much they pay lead engineers. A couple of million per years, at least? <G>
But probably the PR is needed for the very business of the company, get VCs and investors money, dissipate it while enjoying the PR, and then tell them "the project is not feasible with actual technology, we're pivoting, bye!"
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Whoever wins, it's increasingly clear that the company is out to fleece investors that have jumped on the Hyperloop hype, and any advances in engineering will be purely coincidental. I pity the engineers that joined the company trying to build something relevant only to see management focusing on their personal enrichment rather than the product.
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This is one of the reasons not to make cryptic advances to colleagues because an invitation to a bondage session can be misinterpreted as a threat. Then of course you have to choose between the kind of lawsuit featured in the article, or admit that it was actually a case of sexual harassment in the workplace. May or may not be an easy choice, depending on gender and jurisdiction...
Obvious icon choice here.
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