June 17, 2009
Myspace myconomy
Myspace just let go of a bunch of people, about 30% of their employees. Thats a lot of people, mostly programmers I suspect. I use to work there. In fact, myspace, got me fired from one job, than hired me, promoted me, promoted me again, moved my dept to santa monica to beverly hills back to santa monica than to el segundo, promoted me one more time and than fired me. And than we were named in a lawsuit together. She was like the crazy fun girlfriend that didn't work out but is now fucked up. Internally, there was alot of shit going on too from supervisors smoking chronic in the parking lot, kids sleeping atop their cubicles, an employee with strong christian values deleting safe profiles, epileptic seizures in the lobby, people drinking beer, a fight in the kitchen and actresses doing mouth exercises during a fire drill. It was like the wild wild west. Hey, why don't you guys trying hiring a little better?! One of my superiors took me aside and said to me, "bill, do what you need to do and answer questions later". Of course I didn't answer to him so I'm not sure who had my back at the time. Aside from department, one guy in the IT dept did. He's still there - hope he's ok.
Posted by yumyumcha at June 17, 2009 09:46 AM