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TwoStepBoog posted:Out of curiosity, is it possible for more seats to be made on a board? If only to get Russ back. It is, but it'd be very unnecessary until the company goes public or they take on another round of funding as right now the only investor is Raviga. I'd love to see Russ make a cameo somehow too, though. emanresu tnuocca posted:Bighead probably can't join pied piper without forfeiting his contract with Hooli. Since they bought him out I think he'd be in the clear, really all he had was an NDA stating he couldn't talk about anything he did or disparage Hooli, so as long as Pied Piper doesn't build a potato cannon they're set.
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GobiasIndustries posted:It is, but it'd be very unnecessary until the company goes public or they take on another round of funding as right now the only investor is Raviga. I'd love to see Russ make a cameo somehow too, though. I'm not sure i remember correctly but wasn't he specifically forbidden from doing anything compression\middle-out related?
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Avasculous posted:A counterexample for angry drunks that I thought was good writing: Gavin and his sycophants not recognizing any of the people he employed for 7 years and fired a week ago was totally unbelievable and totally great because it perfectly suited him. Eh, I can believe it for a Google-sized company. It's not like he works with them day to day, after all, they're just a few of the tens of thousands of people working for him.
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emanresu tnuocca posted:I'm not sure i remember correctly but wasn't he specifically forbidden from doing anything compression\middle-out related? Nope! Just don't talk poo poo about the company and don't talk about what you 'did' at the company.
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GobiasIndustries posted:Nope! Just don't talk poo poo about the company and don't talk about what you 'did' at the company.
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May 18, 2016 15:04
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ten_twentyfour posted:Quoting for when you're wrong. Just wanted to say, "gently caress you!" 
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The Dave posted:I do think that's possible, but I also think Erlich might bankrupt him, since he's basically taking control over Big Head's 20m and Big Head doesn't say no to anything. There's no way. Now they have a combined wealth of Twenty Million and Thirty Six thousand dollars.
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TwoStepBoog posted:Although I believe having Gilfoyle as some sort of interim CEO would make for some good comedy, even if it doesn't make much sense. He's been shown as the most realistic and most capable of the bunch. Capable yes, but realistic? He quit because his work wasn't idealistic enough for him. His central conceit is that he doesn't give a gently caress. EDIT: Hooli to me is like a combination of HP and AOL
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May 18, 2016 18:18
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emanresu tnuocca posted:Bighead probably can't join pied piper without forfeiting his contract with Hooli. However unrealistic, Gavin will see it as a power move and let him keep it all as some sort of parry. Bighead will always fail upwards.
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May 18, 2016 18:57
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I hope that actor gets paid bank to play such a minor/major roll.
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TwoStepBoog posted:Although I believe having Gilfoyle as some sort of interim CEO would make for some good comedy, even if it doesn't make much sense. He's been shown as the most realistic and most capable of the bunch. "I hereby decree that Dinesh be forced to wear his horrible gold chain every day so that I may mock him relentlessly." "You can't force me to wear it." "I will pay you a thousand dollars per burn levied." "...can I get that in writing?"
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Hooli is a representative of the companies that exist to make the world a better place.AFewBricksShy posted:There's no way. Now they have a combined wealth of Twenty Million and Thirty Six thousand dollars. Yeah, Big Head received $20 million, bought a house for $X million, and still has $20 million. I really don't understand this sort of SV middle-out finance. Also, from the website: quote:A Middle-Out Compression Solution That's such a terrible tag line for a company. 'We won't solve your problems but might make some of them smaller' 
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May 18, 2016 19:37
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Binary Logic posted:Yeah, Big Head received $20 million, bought a house for $X million, and still has $20 million. Hooli was dumping money by the truckload on him even back in season 2.
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May 18, 2016 19:43
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He received 20 million as a severance package. We don't know what they paid as his salary.
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Cojawfee posted:He received 20 million as a severance package. We don't know what they paid as his salary. It was enough for a boat and a boat guy.
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emanresu tnuocca posted:Bighead probably can't join pied piper without forfeiting his contract with Hooli.
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Cicero posted:Non-competes are generally illegal/unenforceable in California. Actually, this is going way back, but that was something that confused me a little from the end of season 2. So Jared, Richard, and 20% of Hooli's employees have an illegal non-compete clause in their employment contract. Would that really invalidate the entire contract? I thought that when that kind of thing happened, only the unenforceable bit got thrown out, plus possible penalties for whatever time/cost enforcing it caused.
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Avasculous posted:Actually, this is going way back, but that was something that confused me a little from the end of season 2. Not usually. In contract law generally only the illegal clause is unenforceable. I'm sure that there are some exceptions, but employment law likely isn't one of them.
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Avasculous posted:Actually, this is going way back, but that was something that confused me a little from the end of season 2. This will likely depend on California specific law - as has been said, non-competes are generally unenforceable in California except in very limited, well defined circumstances. Whether or not that would invalidated the entire contract would probably depend on how the overall contract is structured and the specific verbiage used. IANAL but I do contract review as part of my job, and I could easily see the contract being structured in such a way that one clause would make the entire terms of employment unenforceable. Of course then you could make the argument that a company the size of Hooli wouldn't use such poorly written standard employment contracts, etc. etc. Regardless, it's a believable deus ex machina unless you're pretty well educated on contract/employment law specific to California.
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bring back old gbs posted:However unrealistic, Gavin will see it as a power move and let him keep it all as some sort of parry. Bighead will always fail upwards. Yes, and I hope it keeps going that way. He's such a genuinely likeable guy and his dumb luck is constantly hilarious. Erlich could bankrupt him with his scheming and he'd be like "Oh, that stinks. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted." and walk away to get a slurpee only to have the next big tech company see him walking and beg him to come head up their R&D division.
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The only thing is, Erlich is trying to cut himself in on that Incubator action and taking a percentage of these other ideas is still a better plan than killing the business model.
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Medullah posted:Yes, and I hope it keeps going that way. He's such a genuinely likeable guy and his dumb luck is constantly hilarious. Erlich could bankrupt him with his scheming and he'd be like "Oh, that stinks. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted." and walk away to get a slurpee only to have the next big tech company see him walking and beg him to come head up their R&D division. Gavin would see him bankrupting his incubator as some sort of power move and re-hire bighead back,
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Deference and social awkwardness can often be mistaken for confidence and gamesmanship by insecure people in leadership positions. Also I've recently spent a bunch of time with designers and front end developers and that Dang interaction gave me chills.
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There's a bit of legal boilerplate called a severability clause that basically says "if any part of this contract is invalidated, the rest stands"'. They exist to prevent the season 2 finale from happening. (Also if you're the party with more power in the negotiation you can pull stuff like sticking blatantly illegal and unenforceable clauses in your contacts without endangering the contract itself when one of your, say, tenants gets wise and sues your rear end.)
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My firm got bought, and one of the divisions on the chopping block had meetings with "workflow experts" from the new owners and now they have to fill out "audit reports" accounting for their time, and it's like Mike Judge wrote "Office Space" just for them. Everyone was calling the guys the two Bobs before they got here, and now all the workers are doing TPS reports.
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I hate Richard Hendricks more and more each and every episode. Watching him be a massive baby every episode really drags down a great show.
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I don't know if anyone else has caught this but code/rag has a real fake website. http://www.coderag.com
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May 23, 2016 03:37
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T.J. Miller got a case of Pliny the Elder for this episode, because of course he did.
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"Have you ever seen a naked dead person?"
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Did Big Head violate his NDA by going to the press? He's going to lose the 20mil isn't he?
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Ciprian Maricon posted:I hate Richard Hendricks more and more each and every episode. Jared once again gave the best/saddest lines. "I found my biological father in a militia in the Ozarks."
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gohmak posted:Did Big Head violate his NDA by going to the press? He's going to lose the 20mil isn't he? Probably. And he probably won't care but Erlich will go nuts.
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gohmak posted:Did Big Head violate his NDA by going to the press? He's going to lose the 20mil isn't he? Yes, but depending on how the new company is structured and whether or not the papers hold up, he may have transferred all of his assets and Hooli/Gavin can only go after him, not Bachmanity. Which of course still means he'd have to sell his incubator and move in with Erlich, given that they're a partnership.
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Jared still has the best jokes and Laurie is still a comedy black hole. Holy poo poo she's bad. Love the maritime tirade and Bachman Capital: "I bring the Bachman he brings the capital".
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May 23, 2016 05:18
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Bighead will fail upwards somehow from this slip up. Literally nothing bad can happen to Bighead.
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gohmak posted:Did Big Head violate his NDA by going to the press? He's going to lose the 20mil isn't he? If she's a journalist as she claims to be, she can hide her sources. As long as Bighead's identity as the source remains a secret, there's nothing Gavin can do. Trying to stop it or find the source will end up in the Streissand effect and just make it a bigger story. Either that or Gavin tries to get Bighead's money like Shooting Blanks said but all he has left is maybe the house. This episode was like a roller coaster but it somehow brought everything back to being good again.
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Cojawfee posted:If she's a journalist as she claims to be, she can hide her sources. As long as Bighead's identity as the source remains a secret, there's nothing Gavin can do. Trying to stop it or find the source will end up in the Streissand effect and just make it a bigger story. Either that or Gavin tries to get Bighead's money like Shooting Blanks said but all he has left is maybe the house. Eh, I think that it's too big a thread to let dangle. I don't remember how the conversation went specifically, but the reporter asked Bighead when it happened - if he gave her a too precise an answer (on or off screen) Gavin might be able to figure it out. What he does about it is a different story though.
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I love these episodes but I can't stop rooting for Bignead. He is honestly the best character in this show. He is only surpassed by Blayne's SWOT board.
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