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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.
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*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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