Your mutual friend has noticed that you last updated your journal on LiveJournal 187 weeks ago! Be a friend and go post, at http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml
Sincerely,
The LiveJournal, Inc Team, a division of SUP
It’s that feeling in the pit of your stomach that turns your thoughts into a Magic Eight ball …
- seek job now
- use this opportunity to move up
- start casually moving personal effects home
- become an inside leaker
What do you do when the enemy is you? That squidgy feeling when the life around you takes a turn for the bad or worse? I remember the squidgy feeling when I was hired as just window dressing, frankly, though I was qualified and then some to do the job. I know this has been practice since time immemorial, but I realized that I didn’t like it, didn’t want it, and I didn’t want to work for the slimes. So I left. I was broke and hitched a free ride to a new state with family moving that way, and with their help I landed on my feet and effectively started over.
Now LiveJournal has been sold again to a group named SUP. I wonder if anyone has squidgy feelings. Brad “windowdressing” Fitzpatrick? The former SixApart and now SUP employees?
SUP – a bunch of nogoodninks – dare I say bad guys, are already suppressing certain topics and abilities that make the Russian Krem-ocracy uncomfortable. And they’ve brought in Brad (the original coder and current Google Code Monkey) on their “advisory” team. The fact that he thinks this is a good thing, (like he thought turning down other buy-outs in favor of SixApart), scares the hell out of me. So I’ve left LiveJournal, more or less – some of my friends will stay there until the servers die; it’s a social and user interface no-brainer: – if it ain’t broke for me, I don’t need to fix it.
I wonder about some of their employees. I watch some of their blogs to keep an eye on what they say they think about their employer. One in particular just celebrated his second anniversary, and now has been sold off with the “new” company to SUP. I haven’t wandered in to ask them what they think – everyone is too savvy to say what they really think if they intend to keep their jobs and get future ones.
But I wonder if any of them got or are getting the feelings I had over the years in my varied jobs: the nausea and stomach drop, the panic over the sudden change of being parceled out to somewhere else. Trying to listen to the conference calls and figure out what it means – who is going where, who gets a buy out package, who must move or be unemployed. Asking the Magic Eight ball about what to do about the newly acquired rep or the newly discovered information.
None of them have easy decisions ahead. I wish the new SUP/LJ employees good luck with all sincerity. Keep your head down, stay employed, and I volunteer to edit any tell-alls you come out with.
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