Hello, we’re Brosa and it’s our mission to make it simple for people to create a home they’ll love. Founded in Melbourne in 2014, we’re famous for our uncomplicated and straightforward shopping experience. We’re one of Australia’s fastest-growing consumer brands and are proud to be making waves in the $14B home and living industry. Brosa is backed by Australia’s most prominent and successful Venture Capital funds, including AirTree Ventures and Bailador. We’re a team that is thriving amid the global economic climate and recently closed a $4M round with strategic investors to help fuel our future growth.
Brosa is looking for a Lead / Senior Full-stack Software engineer to join our team. You'll be responsible for the design, build, and maintenance of product and platform services, as well as infrastructure that powers Brosa. This is a role with broad technical responsibilities. We’re open to remote candidates anywhere in Australia, and also looking to find local candidates in Melbourne who enjoy being in an office environment. We’re also open to sponsoring an overseas candidate if they are looking to relocate locally.
Your problem is that you're relying on a method of communication that was never guaranteed to be instantaneous. Maybe you should investigate other forms of communication within your team besides (or in conjunction) with email.
Exactly what I was thinking. SMTP is generally store and forward. Your message gets thrown in a bin and the MTA gets to it when it can. I can't find anything in the actual SMTP RFC [1] indicating that there are limits to how long an email can stay in queue.
Google processes a lot of email. The primary constraint limiting how long their MTA backlogs can be is customer satisfaction. Most SMTP servers I've worked on are happy to retry for 72 hours or more.
I try to treat email as any other letter I recieve(1). Meaning that the sender can only expect an instant reply if I know beforehand the mail is coming and urgent.
The same way one would rapidly reply to an urgent letter one is expecting, but easily take a day or more to reply to, or even open, a non urgent letter.
If you need to get a hold of someone directly you should use your phone (to call them).
If they don't pick up their phone, leave a voicemail or send an sms.
(1) Registration confirmations / new password emails are an obvious exception here.
Exactly my thoughts. Not to down play the problem because it definitely is one Google should at very least address but even if Gmail was up 100% of the time with no problems there should always be communication redundancy. Instant messaging, file hosting services, other email providers.
Doesn't change the fact that this preferred form of communication by no means guarantees delivery in a certain timeframe. It's not a google problem. The email can be "stuck" in every place between you and the recipients mailbox.
to highlight this, I can think of an emails that got delivered YEARS after I hit send. This happened once in almost 20 years of emailing, yet in still happened. This probably occurred about 6 years ago.
Ditto. I've actually done the 10-day course a couple of times (highly recommended btw). One thing that amazes me every time is how busy/noisy urban life seems afterwards. It generally takes me a couple of days to readjust.
Haha - oh absolutely! The first day I was out of the course I just could not stop smiling at people on the street. Have you been practicing regularly? Where did you do the course? I did mine in France - a little south of Paris, great center!
My girlfriend commented that everything I said or did seemed much more deliberate on the days just after I returned. Guess that fades as well ;)
Unfortunately I've been unable to keep up the practice for more than a couple of weeks after I get back from a course. I'm not even sure why ... I really enjoy it when I do meditate daily. Something to work on.
I really should do another course (http://www.rasmi.dhamma.org/) to see if I can get back into it. When I do go back I'll probably follow it up with a 10-day stint of kitchen duties as well; about time I gave back.
Maybe it's sampling bias, as in that's the average South African woman whose picture was identifiable on the web? I'd like to know more how this was done.
Having had to watch my mother succumb to lung cancer (not related to smoking) very recently, I had to hold back the tears whilst reading. Wonderful article.
Hello, we’re Brosa and it’s our mission to make it simple for people to create a home they’ll love. Founded in Melbourne in 2014, we’re famous for our uncomplicated and straightforward shopping experience. We’re one of Australia’s fastest-growing consumer brands and are proud to be making waves in the $14B home and living industry. Brosa is backed by Australia’s most prominent and successful Venture Capital funds, including AirTree Ventures and Bailador. We’re a team that is thriving amid the global economic climate and recently closed a $4M round with strategic investors to help fuel our future growth.
Brosa is looking for a Lead / Senior Full-stack Software engineer to join our team. You'll be responsible for the design, build, and maintenance of product and platform services, as well as infrastructure that powers Brosa. This is a role with broad technical responsibilities. We’re open to remote candidates anywhere in Australia, and also looking to find local candidates in Melbourne who enjoy being in an office environment. We’re also open to sponsoring an overseas candidate if they are looking to relocate locally.
No recruiters or agencies please.