He Steve Jobs winning character This is something he preached in every verse of his life. From his involvement in Apple to the most absurd details. This is something attested to by many people who knew him and which is reflected in the only biography authorized by him, the one that Walter Isaacson published in 2011, just days after the death of the Apple co-founder.
It is precisely in this biography that there is a faithful reflection of the absurd limits to which Jobs reached. A guy who, while not ignoring his ingenuity and heritage, had some strange obsessions. And if not, let them tell those who had to endure their cries because of their employee card. Yes, he is crying. Literally.
‘Jobs threw a tantrum and even cried’ because he wasn’t Apple’s No. 1 employee
At Apple, as at many other companies of all sizes, workers are assigned a card and a number. In the case of the Californian company, the card served as identification to access the offices and certain rooms therein. And that served to begin one of the first confrontations between Michael Scott and Steve Jobs.
Archive image of Michael Scott, who experienced Jobs’ anger because he was not number 1
And no, we’re not talking about the character from “The Office” played by Steve Carell, but the one who was the first CEO of Apple, with legal effects from 1977 to 1981. Scotty, as some still call him, had in Jobs’ biography like this He was really angry because he had the number 2 and not 1 on his employee card.. First number went to Steve Wozniak, Apple’s other co-founder and, one assumes, Scott’s number 3.
Apple’s top executive at the time says gives number 2 to Steve Jobs It was a premeditated decision.. “It would feed his ego more,” Scott said of the possibility of giving him No. 1. Jobs was so angry that he even cried.
So things, Scott had no choice but to give in, but with an intermediate solution: give him the number 0. Jobs agreed to this because even though he wasn’t literally number 1, he managed to be Apple’s first employee since his number was before Woz’s.
However, the room was not perfect. Scott also said that Bank of America, the entity into which employee payrolls were entered, required Jobs (and anyone else) to have a positive number. Then 0 was of no use to him, so for these purposes he had to go back to 2.
It was not made clear (not even in Isaacson’s biography) whether or not this meant another tantrum for Jobs. It is understood that no since it is something administrative at the bank and which does not depend on Scott. However, this anger at being number one remains for posterity. Literally and metaphorically.
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