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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • I was in charge with creating, designing, configuring, and running an e-commerce site on Shopify as well as responding to customer emails and orders. This was for a start-up. First orders would get a promo code for a 15% discount on a next purchase.

    CEO tells me we need to get rid of stock fast as possible, so make a storewide discount on certain models. I go and do that.

    We receive a bulk order of 50 of the discounted units while also using the 15% off promo code we sent out to early purchasers. Realized I should have put in a rule that doesn’t allow discounts to stack…

    CEO and other members all unanimously voted to get rid of me a couple of hours later.












  • In Ottawa, people who don’t have cars and rely on the public transit are motivated to buy cars because of how poorly it runs and how inconsistently it runs.

    Our brand new very expensive light rail train has issues with the wheels staying circular and operating below 0 C. It goes down to -30C pretty regularly there.