How Well Do You REALLY Know Employees?

This is an odd story of one of our employees (and boy do we have some odd employees). 

Yes, like many companies we are a complete melting pot of cultures, tastes, attitudes and freakness. But with a name like Ruckus Wireless, we embrace this freakness and share it with others as long as it doesn't get in the way of revenue generating activities.

One particularly odd Ruckus employee is Mr. Hans Pang. 

Mr. Pang is a fairly free-loving, easy-going technical marketing person - having grown up from the IT ranks. But there's one freakish thing about him that defies logic....he has his own religion. He calls it Panglam.

Panglam has one simple creed: "happiness through respect for your fellow man." There are no offerings, no required text reading, no memorization or cultic-like rituals. Pang said he simply created Panglam to fill a void that certain people not associated with organized religion sometimes feel. Puleeeez. Off-the-record it seemed to be more a way for Mr. Pang to get girls than anything else.

Panglam has blossomed. According to Mr. Pang, Panglam is a simple, fairly straightforward "system of beliefs," as he likes to put it. Pang, at the ripe old age of 25, is the master. And over the last seven years, Pang has attracted over one dozen "followers" (Panglamists) who range in age from 18 to 45 (the demographic sought after by pretty much every advertiser on the planet).

Upon initiation, Pang forces would-be followers to watch this disturbing video in which he and two of his Panglamist followers uncontrollably gesticulate to some measurizing music while espousing Panglam's five fundamental tenets: respect, dignity honor, praise and glory.

Pang is no stranger to publicity.  At 16, while working as a summer intern in the IT department at Alteon WebSystems, Mr. Pang decided to take stock in lieu of cash.  When Alteon went public, Mr. Pang's stock was worth over $100,000.  When the press got a hold of this story they flocked to Mr. Pang (he asks to be referred to as "Mr. Pang" in any context related to Panglam).  Mr. Pang's story even reached the front page (with a picture) of the New York Times and pretty much every major newspaper in the country.

Given all this attention and his own religion, Mr. Pang remains humble and interested in the propagation characteristics of radio frequencies.  Mr. Pang's employment remains a testament to the evolution of Silicon Valley and what they are willing to put up with to get a good employee.

(yes this was all levity at Mr. Pang's expense, yes he is an employee, and yes all of this is relatively true)