Now don't get me wrong I haven't abandoned blogging at all, I just haven't been at a job where I sit in front of the computer for 8+ hours a day. An office job is a blogger's best friend, I used to blog in between work assignments all the fucking time. I'd even take my break or lunch at my desk as I was putting the finishing touches on blog or two or six.
The recent news of my formers employers financial hardships, just put a grin far too big on my face to not blog about it. First and foremost Id like to say Fuck Myspace. Now that we've gotten that out the way, I feel much more revealed. 2 days ago I got a call from a singer/songwriter that I used to work with at myspace.com, Michael Spencer. I was sitting in traffic at the time on the 405 (as usual) when I got the call about myspace fired 420 people. 420?? What a closet smoker number to pick, not 419 or even 418, they laid off 420 people and probably smoked a J after, WTF?
Funny thing is I heard that they only gave the employees, 3 hours notice...Who does that?? Rupert Murdoch does that. The second he bought myspace it was destined to fail. I worked in the company for over 14-months and that's the number one thing I took from that experience. That those muthafuckas were in way over their heads. The people they had running the CS and the general development team just didnt not have a realist grip on the pulse of the consumer. They tried to over corporatize (if thats even a word) a company and a product that was "designed" to operate very simple and efficiently. After pouring in 3 yrs and thousands of hours of misguided effort, Rupert finally came to the realization that the shit was not working and responded by pretty much firing EVERYONE.
You can read it for yourself
