Google Fires Blogger? 628
Thomas Hawk writes "CNET is reporting that Mark Jen, a blogger whose candid comments about life on the job at Google sparked controversy last month, has left the company. CNET reports that it is not clear if he resigned or was fired but references a post at Google Blogoscoped where it was suggested that he may have been fired over his blog Ninetyninezeros. Given Google's push into the blogging space with their recent acquisition of Blogger it might be interesting to see how this shakes out."
Next week on Bloggerly Hills 90.2.1.0 (Score:5, Funny)
Hahahaha (Score:3, Funny)
Boo friggin hoo (Score:3, Funny)
"Well, he didn't like wearing pants. Doesn't Google know that some people just like to let it all hang out? What's wrong with some balls?"
Re:I TOLD you google suck (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Quote (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Blog link (Score:4, Funny)
I have the mat [imdb.com] spread out on the floor and all ready to go
How ironic... (Score:5, Funny)
Ninety nine zeros, the name of the blog, is a googol minus one.
And now we have Google, minus one. One named "Mark".
Maybe it's just because I'm a former math geek, but I just love the way this worked out...
Re:Probable Cause (Score:4, Funny)
If not, can you grab me a venti caramel macchiato from Starbucks when you go for a walk to clear your head?
Fired for bad grammer (Score:5, Funny)
Never... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fired for bad grammer (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I hate it when people don't capitalize... or can't spell. Grammer? Sinlge?
Re:Don't pass go... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Blog link (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Whatever? (Score:3, Funny)
I, however, think that they are totally justified and that all the complainers in this thread should be fired.
Re:If a blogger gets sacked... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:dumb editor comments, again (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This is not a troll (Score:3, Funny)
Well duh, it was cancelled ages ago!
Re:Quote (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Blog link (Score:4, Funny)
Someone noticed he didn't have a degree from Stanford or MIT.
*rimshot*
Re:Blog link (Score:2, Funny)
After reading his Blog, I'm wondering what Goolges position will be with regrads to his relocation expenses and signing bonus.
This guy's gonna get boned and he obviously has nobody to blame but himself.
Wonder if that new furniture will be up on EBay?
Re:No big deal really (Score:5, Funny)
Hopefully you don't mean the new
Re:No... (Score:2, Funny)
Heh, you and I both got modded down for being able to subtract correctly...
Re:DAMNIT PEOPLE (Score:3, Funny)
Re:If a blogger gets sacked... (Score:2, Funny)
Hey, bright one, you're out of firetorches.
Re:Blog link (Score:5, Funny)
"hi, my name is mark jen. i used to work for microsoft, and now i work for google."
I guess that will soon be changed to
"hi, my name is mark jen. i used to work for microsoft, i've been dismissed by google, and now i'm fucked."
and
"everything here is my personal opinion and is not read or approved by google"
to
"everything here is my personal opinion and was read by google" (but obviously not approved).
Re:One major thing missing from this story... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Blog link (Score:5, Funny)
Re:One major thing missing from this story... (Score:2, Funny)
Oh boo hoo hoo, so you had the pay to move out of your own pocket? How outrageous. Seriously though, since when do employers pay you to move? For people in the real world rather than an dotcom-bubble, you have to pay it all up front and you DON'T get reimbursed afterwards. What a spoilt fucking baby.
which led me to thinking about the "benefits" package at google. as i thought about it, i realized that most of the "benefits" actually seem to be thinly veiled timesavers to keep you at work. take for example: free lunch and dinner. now this one is an awesome value proposition for google; i'm not exactly sure why other companies don't also recognize the value and join in. consider this: it probably costs google a maximum of $3 per employee for lunch and $5 per employee for dinner. so that's only $8 per day, but if you think about the fact that the employee now probably only takes a half hour lunch break and also stays late working, the company actually realizes far more than an $8 gain in employee output.
It gets even worse. You get FREE dinners and you're moaning? Where I work, I have to pay for everything, even a cup of tea, and the food's absolutely atrocious. Of course giving free meals keeps them at work. But what's the alternative? If they charged for them, people would still stay at work but they'd be paying instead. When you only have a half-hour lunch break it's not like you have time to go anywhere else either. And when you're working nights or weekends you bring in your own sandwiches anyway, so your point is completely invalid.
then look at all these other fringe "benefits": on-site doctor, on-site dentist, on-site car washes... the list goes on and on with one similarity: every "benefit" is on-site so you never leave work.
You put benefits in inverted commas? You're getting things for free (dentists, health care, on-side doctors, car-washing) that most people have to pay huge chunks of their wages towards, and you're STILL moaning?????? If you don't like it, then don't use it, pay for your own healthy care and dentists etc out of your own pocket.
lastly, google demands employees that are 90th percentile material, so what's with the 50th percentile compensation?
90th percentile? I'm not familiar with that terminology. It can't be anything to do with the quality of employees, as google's employees seem to be completely useless. I mean let's look at the facts: all those expensive highly-educated PHDs, massive benefits, big fancy 'campus' (god I hate that word) and what have they actually released (i.e. actually out of beta)? A search engine, and a couple of average web services. Woo-fucking-hoo. A few amateur nerds could probably do that in their basement in a few days.
Christ almighty, how can one company attract such spoilt and vain employees? Next you'll be complaining that your gold chair isn't polished regularly enough.
Re:Whatever? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm not!
Bruce
Re:Blog link (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How ironic... (Score:4, Funny)
Which is, come to think of it, pretty much what they did. ;)
New Blog Guidelines (Score:2, Funny)
OK: My team played volleyball at lunch today, we beat some people from another group.
BAD: My team is way ahead of the weather-machine and germ-warfare divisions.
OK: Pets are welcome on the Google Campus.
BAD: People at Google like to sit in their chairs and pet their cats while plotting.
OK: Google has several offices in Europe.
BAD: We look forward to renaming Europe 'Euro-Google-Land'
OK: We are constantly looking for the best engineers to work on exciting projects.
BAD: We're building a robot army at our secret desert office and need more engineers.
OK: There are some great recreation facilities on campus.
BAD: Employees who underperform are sent to the dungeon.
WORSE: Underperforming employees are sometimes sent
back to Microsoft.
OK: Google is always looking to make its services available outside of North America.
BAD: Within 4 turns, we will control all of Asia.
OK: Over 3,000 highly qualified employees work at Google.
BAD: Google hires only the best evil geniuses.
OK: The company motto is 'Don't be Evil'
BAD: The secret company motto is 'One Webservice to Rule Them All'
OK: Googlers are exercising their mechanical-engineering skills.
BAD: Googlers are creating an evil robot.
WORSE: An evil robot is creating Googlers.
OK: We don't comment on how many computers Google operates.
BAD: Google only has a single super-computer, we call it SkyNet; it calls the shots here.
Re:Whatever? (Score:3, Funny)