It's The Moustache That Matters 重要的是小胡子
作者： 安迪·赫茨菲尔德 日期： 1980年9月 人物： 伯勒尔·史密斯、汤姆·惠特尼、史蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克 主题： 管理、人格 概括： 伯勒尔希望晋升为工程师
Burrell was hired into Apple in February 1979 as Apple employee #282, in the lowly position of service technician, one of the lowest paying jobs at the company. Even though he’d been doing genius quality work as a hardware designer on the Macintosh project for a while now (more than nine months), and he was even filling in for Steve Wozniak on the low cost Apple II project, he still wasn’t officially promoted to engineer as he requested, which was getting pretty frustrating.
伯勒尔于 1979 年 2 月作为苹果第 282 号员工被苹果公司聘用，担任服务技术员的低职位，这是公司薪酬最低的工作之一。
尽管他作为 Macintosh 项目的硬件设计师已经从事天才品质的工作有一段时间了（九个多月），而且他甚至在低成本 Apple II 项目中替代 Steve Wozniak，但他仍然不是“他没有按照他的要求正式晋升为工程师，这让人非常沮丧。
Burrell started thinking about what it would take to get promoted. It obviously wasn’t a matter of talent or technical skill, since he was already far more accomplished in that regard than most of the other hardware engineers. It wasn’t a matter of working harder, since Burrell already worked harder and was more productive than most of the others. Finally, he noticed something that most of the other engineers had in common that he was lacking: they all had fairly prominent moustaches. And the engineering managers tended to have even bigger moustaches. Tom Whitney, the engineering VP, had the largest moustache of all.
伯勒尔开始思考如何才能获得晋升。 这显然不是天赋或技术能力的问题，因为他在这方面已经比大多数其他硬件工程师更有成就了。
这不是工作更加努力的问题，因为伯勒尔已经比其他大多数人工作更加努力并且工作效率更高。
最后，他注意到了他所缺乏的大多数其他工程师的共同点：他们都有相当突出的小胡子。
工程经理的胡子往往更大。 工程副总裁汤姆·惠特尼 (Tom Whitney) 的胡子是所有人中最大的。
So Burrell immediately started growing his own moustache. It took around a month or so for it to come in fully, but finally he pronounced it complete. And sure enough, that very afternoon, he was called into Tom Whitney’s office and told that he was promoted to “member of technical staff” as a full-fledged engineer.
于是伯勒尔立即开始留起自己的小胡子。 大约花了一个月左右的时间才完全完成，但最终他宣布它完成了。
果然，就在那天下午，他被叫到汤姆·惠特尼的办公室，并被告知他被提升为“技术人员”，成为一名正式的工程师。