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To be clear, my point wasn't "develop some specialized knowledge and then hide it", it was just "develop some specialized knowledeg". And yes, sharing it with your peers is a good choice, but if they were scared of the issue to begin with, they may not all be very receptive to learning about it.
Linux will never fix these things. I ran linux for 10 years and those 3 issues were there that entire time.
Yes, I miss many things, especially around keyboard shortcuts and multiple desktops, but overall my experience on the mac is better.
-Tabs above the address bar
-1 button for stop/refresh
-single star button for bookmarks
-transient status bar
-manage extensions in a tab
-pinning tabs
Tab groups, awesome bar, sync, and the privacy features do look awesome though. Will try them out for a while.
I think the assumptions you are making about the Founders are not well grounded. How do you know they are not jerks? Here's how I see it. Employee wages are fixed costs and easy to predict. If you know ahead of time (extremely likely) that you can't make wages, you MUST immediately notify your employees and put them on unpaid leave. You can't just implicitly ask them to work for uncertain future compensation based on not-booked revenue. It's incompetent and unethical. There's no excuse for that. As the poster has said, he was a straight salaried employee, not a founder in any way expected to have variable income. That would be different, but that's not the case. Go get more funding if needed, but don't exploit your employee's loyalty.
I'm glad that the poster quit because that's the right thing to do, and the sooner the better. If this ever happens to me again, I'm gone when the first check doesn't show up.
In the end, my employer went into bankruptcy, which is probably the best in this situation. I got a lawyer and made sure my back wages priority claim was registered. Yes, it's true that employee back wages are high priority and get paid earlier than many other outstanding debts, BUT, this doesn't just happen automatically. I only got paid (a fraction of what I was owed) BECAUSE I got myself active in the legal process. All the other employees who just moved on and didn't get involved didn't get anything. You need to stand up for what you are owed and work in the legal system to get (a fraction of) it.
FYI this didn't entirely destroy the relationship in the long run. I still talk with one of the founding partners on good enough terms. There's nothing wrong with asking to get paid what you were promised. That's not burning a bridge. In the big picture, honestly this is a bridge that you probably need to burn and that's OK in this case, but you're relationship surviving depends more on how they handle it. If you walk away quietly like a chump, how does that make you appear to them for your future relationship?