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LJ employees sacked

SUP sacked a number of employees in their San Francisco office. no_lj_ads has a tiny summary and a few links to a few sources (they call it the Grim Purge which I find inappropriate...)
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Posted on Jan. 6th, 2009 at 02:43 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]skuf

Sorry for being slow, but why is "Grim Purge" inappropriate?
Posted on Jan. 6th, 2009 09:02 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]randomsome1

I second: It seems a little melodramatic but not really inappropriate.
Posted on Jan. 6th, 2009 11:10 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]mllesatine

I thought it was a play on words for the Great Purge.
Posted on Jan. 6th, 2009 01:12 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]skuf

Ah (hello, lack of historical knowledge…) - I only associated it with LJ's own use of the word for cleaning out deleted journals. Thanks.
Posted on Jan. 7th, 2009 01:15 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]mllesatine

It's okay.
Posted on Jan. 7th, 2009 07:14 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]foxfirefey

Oh dear. No, I was entirely unaware of that, I only used grim purge because it was a definite purge of employees--half of the San Fran office--and it was a very grim thing for me as well as others, knowing some of the people involved. It was hard to know that some of my friends had been let go in a very insensitive fashion--I understand that businesses do need to downsize sometimes, but details that I'm not sure I should talk about made it a very ungraceful layoff.

Although I disagree with a lot of SUP's actions and policies, I don't think that more Russian involvement and control is necessarily a wrong thing to have happen--LJ has been much more important to Russia than the US, and it's only fair they have someone looking out for their priorities there. So, my title was definitely not a Russian slur.
Posted on Feb. 28th, 2009 05:28 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]wolfsilveroak

The drama being generated over this is hilarious.
Posted on Jan. 6th, 2009 02:29 pm (UTC) | | Reply

[info]stewardess

Having gone through a number of IT meltdowns, I don't think the layoffs necessarily indicate anything significant about LJ's future (by LJ, I mean the USA bit of it, not SUP as a whole). As a cost-saving move, it's not unusual for companies to lay off employees for six months and then hire them back. Disgusting and hideous, yes, but not unusual.

What I find interesting is SUP's constant trumpeting of this sort of thing: "LiveJournal Inc.'s headquarters, technical operations (and servers,) legal, administration, and customer service teams will remain in the United States." Apparently SUP is very aware it needs a US "footprint" or American LJ customers will leave in droves. While LJ/Six Apart had many a spectacular fuckup, nothing beefed up IJ's membership more than the announcement of SUP's purchase.

Personally, I find the distrust of SUP out of proportion, and more than a little chauvinist. SUP is vile, yes, but no more vile than the average American company. Consider AT&T's role in Central America, for instance. Gah.
Posted on Jan. 6th, 2009 02:55 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]vakkotaur

Not just a US footprint for US customers, but having servers. legal, and operations means that those things will not be under direct threat from the Russian government. I expect that is more important to SUP and its Russian users than keeping American users happy, though that as a side effect wouldn't be viewed as a bad thing.
Posted on Jan. 7th, 2009 12:15 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]vincent_z

stewardess replied:
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> Apparently SUP is very aware it needs a US "footprint"
> or American LJ customers will leave in droves.
> While LJ/Six Apart had many a spectacular fuckup,
> nothing beefed up IJ's membership more than the
> announcement of SUP's purchase.

Oh dear. Who are you kidding?
The vast horde of users shall never leave LJ!
LJ could pull them to a special page after logon that would install a keylogger on their computer, and they wouldn't cease surfing there.

The people still at LJ are emotionally addicted to it.

(Please excuse me. I sound slightly too brash in here. But it is aimed at the dolts still at LJ.)

Posted on Jan. 16th, 2009 01:59 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply