Steve Jobs had a problem that others couldn’t stand and that’s why he was relegated to the night shift at one of his first jobs.

Before Steve Jobs co-founded apple, he had to start working for other companies, and was apparently quite unpopular among his co-workers at one of his first jobs.

It’s no secret that Steve Jobs He was a person who didn’t care what many thought of him, and yet he dressed in a relaxed way, ignoring any etiquette, and in one of his first jobs, at Atari, he was remembered for being a person who had bad body odor.

This is what he says in an interview Allan Alcorn to New York Post, the creator of Pong, and who hired Steve Jobs, mind behind the iPhone, on the day shift but was forced to move him to the night shift, where he was practically alone, due to criticism from the rest of his staff. companions.

“We were in 1973 and there was a guy, maybe 18, very passionate about technology, and he said his name was Steve Jobs and I hired him. He was a bit annoying to work with and had a real problem with body odor, so we made him work at night. It was better for everyone”.

Five years later, Steve Jobs founded Manzana with his friend Steve Wozniak, and from there one of the most important technology companies in the world.

A professional relationship that lasted many years

Although Jobs was moved to the night shift in that job, he never forgot his work with Alcorn, and they nevertheless worked together on other occasions.

There was one time where Jobs asked Alcorn directly for help with a technical issue and to pay him he offered him Apple stock, something Alcorn rejected and asked for an Apple computer instead. had not yet been invented iPhone.

After Warner purchased Atari, Alcorn left the company to become an employee of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to work on digital video compression: “I really didn’t want to work with this person. [Steve Jobs]. You can end up being a really unpleasant person to work with. But it sounded interesting and, you know, it was Apple” notes Allan Alcorn.

They are one of the many anecdotes that the creator of Pong has been telling about Steve Jobs and that continue to surprise some time later.