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Tech toppers tossed at Technorati and PodTech
Posted by Fired Fred on August 16, 2007 4:06 PM
I'd hoped to have some extra time to work on my fantasy football draft wishlist today. I don't know why the hell we're drafting in the middle of August but whatever. I'll just be happy if I can draft Steven Jackson, assuming I have my eighth straight year of not getting to pick first.

I've got websites open, magazines spread all over the Futon Of Love, a chewed-up pencil writing out my fifteenth draft order, when in comes an email from Lucas.

He's all excited because a couple of the local CEO's have been kicked harder than a Nate Kaeding field goal. Everyone talks about SoCal being the center of gossip because of Hollywood, but Silicon Valley has it beat.

Teenage girls could take lessons from Lucas, I'll put it that way. This TechCrunch blog that Lucas adores could give some tips to the tweens too.

Their main blogger, Michael Arrington, has a way with the firing news, I'll give him that...
PodTech CEO John Furrier is out. James McCormick, the COO, steps up to the CEO position. The company also announced that 1938 Media is no longer partnering with them, which is a real loss.

Sifry’s last blog post as CEO of the company was representative of his entire tenure - vague and cold. Layoffs also occurred today but Sifry didn’t mention them until the end. The blog post sort of went like this:

me….me…me…and oh yeah we layed off eight people.

Sifry also refers to himself as a “great leader� in the fourth paragraph of his post.
Yeah, great leaders fire themselves all the time. Not. I don't think Jack Welch ever put himself in the bottom ten percent of people he routinely canned at General Electric.
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AOHell, 2,000 jobs scorched
Posted by Fired Fred on October 15, 2007 5:01 PM
"We have a bright future as a company if we can execute on this vision." - AOL's Randy Falco wrapped up his fourteen paragraph corp-speak spin with this gem. Executing on the vision means real executions, all right. French Revolution style to the tune of 2,000 jobs, sez Valleywag.

Sharpen the guillotine and call the headsman, Marie, and let them all eat cake first.

Even better, another Valleywag piece sayeth the former AOL HR chief, Lance Miyamoto, quit in protest of these upcoming job cuts a week ago.

That would be a pretty cool and even noble thing, but Valleywag's vicious commenters have been chopping the Lance as noble story into sashimi...
give me a break. he never left the 5th floor and never had any impact on the company.

if he quit in protest, it was only protesting the fact that the layoffs caused a bunch of inconvenient actual work.

Who put the HR stamp of approval on compensation and benefits for top execs who were rewarded large bonuses despite their arrogance and inability to run the company like a real business.
That's some quality off the hook bitterness.
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