but I believe you should not do this negative advertisement, "replace slack from your workspace" specially where in your app video you are using slack to get that PNG image :p.
I see your app as facilitator for small talks, which is actually problem and you are targeting.
small messages like
- Are you there available ?
- Are you joinig today's huddle
- or so on
talks/messages which are temporary and not required any documented evidence :p.
Japan has no images warning of dangers of anything like that on boxes of cigarettes as far as I can tell (living here for several years) and there is much less a stigma around smoking compared to my home country (Australia).
They can include the brand name in Australia, but the format is precisely specified including valid fonts and sizes. Names are also regulated so they can't imply a health claim (like afaik "Mild").
It would be instructive to do an image search for "Australian cigarette packaging" if you want to see exactly what they look like. I gather a lot of smokers like to use boxes to put their cigarette boxes in so they don't have to see them, but I don't know any smokers so that's just hearsay.
As an Aussie smoker with friends who also smoke, the packaging makes absolutely no difference to us. It was an oddity when it happened, everyone spent time comparing which photos were the most disgusting and now its just background.
Also people buy smokes they like the taste of, the packaging/brand had/has no effect on what people buy.
I'd love to see plain packaging for everything. Sell your products on their actual merits, not just on whatever flashy colors you put on the packaging that gets discarded anyway.
Yes I think it's funny. Sometimes you'll see a new product on the shelf and then six months or a year later they'll've changed the packaging since the first one didn't work well enough. I guess those must be well funded products owned by big food companies.
And advertising that merely told you they have a product rather than showing unlikely circumstances - or at least had to depict the likely uses of the product. Car ads that sit in traffic rather than zooming through the city. Coke drinkers that struggle to stay awake in the office rather than take a ride in Santa's sleigh in a winter wonderland.
New Zealand also introduced plain packaging recently.
An interesting side effect of plain packaging is that it's made the prevalence of illegally imported cigarettes much more noticeable. There's a fair amount tobacco smuggled in from Indonesia and SE Asia, and you can notice it now because the smuggled packs of smokes still have branding on them.
In Singapore, importing tobacco is illegal full stop (no duty-free or duty-paid allowance) and all legal locally sold tobacco is stamped "SDPC" (Singapore Duty-Paid Cigarette). If you're caught by police with an unstamped cigarette, the first offence fine is $500.
I got rejected by Google even though I thought my coding interview went well. I bombed the interview with Amazon and somehow they gave me an offer as an SDE1 even though I wasn't a fresh grad and had 3 years experience.
My director refers to me as a rock star. My total comp this year is just north of $240K. I was promoted about 13 months in. I'm told repeatedly I'm one of the top engineers in my org and admired and reputable for my ownership, bias for delivery, and quality of work.
The interviews you passed or failed mean absolutely nothing. Any company who rejects you can fuck right off. Take it from me.
As a manager, I recommend everyone to internalise this idea from the parent post: sometimes the quickest career, and being promoted earlier, might not the best path long term.
The "first impression" that the parent created is a powerful image that can burn in the brain of the surrounding people and follow him throughout his career, in exchange for perhaps 1 year lag in "official" experience and remuneration during 1 or 2 years early in his career. On the other hand, being promoted too early and fucking up can unfortunately have an analogous effect, and throw a career overboard.
This is not fair, but people's brain work like that.
There is a vast, vast ocean of programming jobs beyond google and Facebook, and a huge number of those people could never even land an interview at google / Facebook. Don’t give up simply because you aren’t in the top X%
I dropped Google interviews twice in the middle. Most of work in FANG is... boring as everywhere, just a few do super cool stuff. And brands cool aids are not for me.
World is full of other interesting and flexible places with challenges. Think about your ability to apply your skills to make people lifes' around you better.
Well they can also generate revenue by advertisement.
plus property rate around station will going to be high (it will be great impact on money rotation)
more people traveling in train instead of personal car will also reduce co2 in air which is eco friendly too.
less traffic means there is a wide and safe road for bicycle rider and people who like to walk.
one big benefit of travel throw train is time.
you can be on place on estimated time. due to less traffic.
All my comments are based on my experience, I am traveling throw train for work, here in tokyo.
but I believe you should not do this negative advertisement, "replace slack from your workspace" specially where in your app video you are using slack to get that PNG image :p.
I see your app as facilitator for small talks, which is actually problem and you are targeting.
small messages like - Are you there available ? - Are you joinig today's huddle - or so on
talks/messages which are temporary and not required any documented evidence :p.