MySpace Fires 500 People By Soulless Xerox

[Quiet Stranger]

......the fuck is Myspace???


Those were the days

 

[mjc0961]

apparently including claims that do-nothing managers kept their jobs while the worker bees were thrown out in the cold.

Well that's not surprising. That's always what happens: the hardest workers get tossed out onto their ass, while people who are lazy or are bad at their jobs get to stay.

And while that letter does seem to be rubbing salt in the wound near the end, at least it's better than some other companies have done, such as one I heard about where they had a fire drill during which employees who were getting laid off had their badges deactivated so they couldn't get back inside after the drill.

 

[aPod]

I've been a consultant for business's in the past and people who get fired always complain about good for nothing such and such kept his job and I didn't and I do so much... well, sometimes those people who claim to be such good workers really aren't. Legends in their own minds. I had a guy pull a similar line after he would drive off at 10AM go to a bar, get pickled, and not do his job say the exact same thing.

 

[archvile93]

Welcome to Corporate anywhere, they don't care.

Fixed it for you.

OT: Yeah it's sad, but these people probably deserve better jobs anyway.

 

[tunderball]

Damn I can remember when myspace was the big thing and Facebook was just a little baby. I wonder if this will ever happen to Facebook, they do seem to be able to branch across a variety of different media unlike Myspace but things change.......

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Hey, guess what?

I hear that Facebook is hiring!

 

[Dogstile]

I see FB slowly crumbling into nothingness as people rediscover the fact that they don't need a seperate website in order to plan stuff together with people they already know and have contact information for.

I dunno, do you know how much easier it is to plan something over facebook rather than call every individual person? It's cheaper too.

 

[BabyRaptor]

And then the they'll join together and create, FACESPACE! or MyBook, whichever ones the catchiest.

Facespace? Sounds like one of those "Hit your head here to decrease stress" joke posters.

 

[Oh That Dude]

inb4 Mark Zuckerberg hires all of these people just because he can.

 

[jpoon]

Man that's a very weak way to handle it, Mike should have had some fucking balls and told them in person at least. I'm sure if they were good at what they did for the company they will land on their feet somewhere, best of luck to them.

 

[jonnosferatu]

I find it pretty amusing that there are so many comments based on the idea that Myspace are assholes because "Being laid off in order to make the financial reports look better...must really burn."

Uh, guys? This is the business universe we're talking about. It's not like the execs just looked at the profit margins one day and said "Huh, y'know, we could really do with these numbers being a bit bigger. Let's fire some folk!" 47% layoffs indicates that the conversation was something more to the effect of "Oh shit, the company is hemorrhaging money and if we don't downsize right the fuck now everyone in this building is out of a job next month." The Xerox thing is the only thing that reflects negatively on them.

Would it kill the userbase of this forum to go out and actually learn what they're talking about before commenting?

 

[Gardenia]

One day, Facebook will pull a similar move.

And then the they'll join together and create, FACESPACE! or MyBook, whichever ones the catchiest.

MyFace?
"Check out this amazing link I sent you, just come on MyFace!"

 

[Reed Spacer]

It's only Myspace.
It's not like it's a real website or anything.