I came across this unexpectedly at Wizbang while looking into the latest baby caper, see previous post on that.
Google fired Jen 11 days into his new job
Evidently Jen is a blogger and he was blogging on his new experience at Google after having left Microsoft to go to Google. He was making unfavorable comparisons to Microsoft as regards Google's benefits, pay, etc.
I'm a senior manager with a much smaller company than these two corporations. That's to explain my perspective, which you may like, or not. I have a company to maintain and build. I have to compete for customers, employees and on any number of levels that people don't always think about. As far as I am concerned if I am paying you any agreed upon sum of money, with or without benefits, you are a part of the company. For that, I expect you to by and large be a positive force within the greater effort of making the business successful.
If you are carrying around some form of negative message that can have a negative impact on my business in the competitive arena, I am in no way obligated to punch your ticket - pure and simple. If you don't like something - either tell me and we'll see if it should be changed, or move on. If you are going to publicly undermine the general efforts of my organization - you're outta here, dude! What a buffoon. Too many people fail to grasp the bigger picture of such things IMO. And that's going to be their problem if I find out about it, not mine.
If you don't like the offer, don't take the job dumbass. SeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeYYYYYYYYYaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Posted by: Pile On® | Friday, February 11, 2005 at 06:19 PM
File under DUH. However, having been a union member for many years, I know there's plenty of people out there who think they have a RIGHT to a paycheck regardless of how fucked their attitude is.
BTW, the quota is ONE EASON JORDAN POST PER DAY. Get with the program
Posted by: jeff | Friday, February 11, 2005 at 06:56 PM
Damn straight. Dipshits think they can torpedo their own company, then whine if they get fired. BTW, I was in a union years ago as well, and they practically *encourage* you to be a lazy pain in the ass.
Posted by: John from WuzzaDem | Friday, February 11, 2005 at 07:47 PM
Oh fine jeff... I was just getting ready to post on this and was going to title my post "file under "Duh..."
Posted by: Cassandra | Saturday, February 12, 2005 at 11:17 AM
I`ve worked for unions. The pay is good, the politics stink.
I work for my Rich Uncle Sam now and since it`s a government job they would think something was seriously wrong if I didn`t complain.
Some people never learn that pay and benifits should be negotiated before they take a job.
Posted by: Joatmoaf | Monday, February 14, 2005 at 08:08 AM