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Now Here Is A Company That Really Gets Online Community
The clueless choads at Friendster fired my good pal Joyce on Friday. The reason, as near as she can tell, was for judicious blogging about her job. One of the things she did there was replace their Java infrastructure with PHP and she was pretty candid on her blog about the decisions that went into that, but she certainly didn't say anything bad about the company on there — it looks like the CEO saw her blog, freaked out, and zapped her because of it.
Pretty bizarre behavior for a community company, particularly when Joyce was busting her ass over there. In her words, "I was sleeping under my desk at 6AM on Friday, shitcanned at 3PM Monday."
I don't usually like to contribute to the blogosphere echo chamber, but Jeremy and Tim add their two bits.
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We must buy Joyce drinks!! When's the next Happy Hour? :)
Posted by: Adam | Aug 31, 2004 10:49:50 AM
I think that CEO Scott Sassa needs to take a second look at this. It's a very stupid move mad by Friendster, for firing someone for blogging, when your own company promotes this. All this bad publicity should make the CEO mad, because he obviously has no idea what the heck he's doing.
Posted by: Michael | Aug 31, 2004 4:58:22 PM
Hi Jeff
This is such a shockingly bad move.
Bad news for Friendster. Bad news for bloggers in general. And bad news for Joyce.
I hope all the bad energy ends up being focused friendster's way, not elsewhere.
cheers
lb
Posted by: secretGeek | Sep 3, 2004 7:58:00 AM
We're designers, not programmers, but we stand behind Joyce Park. Read our discussion on the matter here:
http://www.cranbrookdesign.com/comments.php?id=510_0_1_0_C
Posted by: Maya Drozdz | Sep 3, 2004 9:29:12 AM
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