Second Ramblings

Posted on SL Universe:

I am really sad about this. I sat for a couple years on an email address, and today SL officially died to me, so I used it. I wrote to the email address you use as a Linden when you leave LL. I talked a bit to Cristiano, and he encouraged me to post this, so I’m going to. here is what I wrote to that address. The subject line was "so long, and thanks for all the shit".

Hello, and goodbye,

As you know, we’ve had a major restructuring this week. By that I mean

the new CFO has fired* a bunch of people so that the shareholders (I

will not capitalize that word) can make more money off our blood,

sweat, and tears; their ball of confusion is a higher priority than

ours.

for the tl;dnr crowd, save your time, I’m simply saying management has

been fucked, is fucked, and will always be fucked, because they don’t

understand the product and will never care about the people who make

it. For those who like to read, have fun!

Sadly, I am among those cut for the greater good – which I think makes

me not the greater good. I would like to thank you all for these

glorious 6 years, except I’m far too pissed off to do so. Instead, for

my departure letter, I’d like to single out some gentlemen who’s

particularly poor leadership caused this in the first place. Here come

some shoutouts!

*Philip – I was super-sad(tm) when you couldn’t get your head around

what you tried to create, much less take any responsibility for it.

.

*Mark – You are a penis. And not in a good way.

*Bob – The balls you have to do this cut after having a job in which

you have never actually interacted with your product are enormous, and

I admire that. There is a special room in hell for you, and if I’m

lucky, the devil will let me off my "mow this lawn, with your teeth"

job for a few hours every day to punch you in the face, while I get

lemonade. If I’m unlucky, I will get no lemonade.

As the wheels on the bus failed to go round and round, I can only

shake my head and think "told you so". From the early days through the

lunch menu and on into the future**, we have constantly provided a

substandard product with no accountability for it, despite the best

efforts of many of the people that got shit-canned today. I’d be able

to make a strong argument that the people laid off today were the

people who kept the fucking waterlogged boat afloat, and that the

executives named above are the entire problem. Time will tell.

For those of you who still have a job, I have nothing but admiration

and a strong advisement that you GTFO. This isnt a huggy situation,

this is a corporate situation in which your work is judged by managers

who don’t understand wtf you’re even doing, and sadly, don’t care.

Nothing you ever paid me for was worth this, you jerkoffs. Since this

won’t go to the people you actually

liquidated/fired/terminated/torleyated/whatever I will be posting this

elsewhere so that everybody will have the opportunity to understand

what you just did.

I’d like to close with this wonderful quote, which I think sums up how

we all feel:

"I’ve labored long and hard for bread,

For honor, and for riches,

But on my corns too long you’ve tread,

You fine-haired sons of bitches."

- Black Bart, 1877

Love, Peace, and Hair Grease,

Taco Fucking Rubio

AKA _Linden, AKA KGB Linden AKA Fink Linden, AKA Spy Linden AKA CIA Linden

*Firing people sucks. Make other people do it.

**There is no future. You blew it.

P.S. if you are reading this, you still have a job there. I understand

that you probably have survivor’s guilt – "why do i have my job when

so many good people don’t!?!" – please do not dwell on that and

understand that you have your job because some shitty manager who is

trying to save his/her job made some decisions on how to best do that,

so that a director trying to save his/her job could say "look i’m

shaking things up". Don’t dwell, just let today be a wake up call to

you as a reminder that this is a company, not a family, and the rich

eat themselves. You aren’t rich, start looking for a new job now, you

will be next. Love you guys!

Last edited by Taco Rubio; Today at 12:56 AM.

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