So I’ve mentioned how the new Monster home page has a big “success story” photo and a silly quote. Well, Pete and I decided to have a little fun. He edited a screenshot of the page to say, “I got laid!” instead of “I got laid off…”. I decided to one-up him by sticking a […]
Read More Right to the topI have to work Saturday. Poop. So much for sleeping until noon. (…and when asked, it’s not like I could say “No” with the threat of layoffs looming about.) Speaking of Saturday, I have quite a few friends planning to attend the Fetish Flea at the Boston Park Plaza (yes, that Boston Park Plaza) this […]
Read More So much for my plans to sleep late…Date: 10 Jan 2003 11:03 AM From: Corporate Communications To: All TMP Divisions-North America On Wednesday and Thursday of this week, TMP Worldwide was on the road, showcasing the company’s 2003 business and financial outlooks to key players in the investor community. Together, Andrew McKelvey and Michael Sileck addressed audiences at two popular Wall Street […]
Read More TMP Presents: 2003 Financial Outlook“… The remaining company will be renamed Monster when the spin-off is complete at the end of the first quarter. TMP plans cut its work force by about 800 employees and take about $100 million in charges in the fourth and first quarters related to the transaction, which will be structured as a tax-free distribution […]
Read More From a press release…I discovered that my credit card was only charged once by Newtype USA even though I ordered subscriptions for both myself and Lizzard. I e-mailed and discovered that mine apparently never went through (even though I got two confirmation e-mails). …but that’s taken care of now. Yesterday and today I’ve been working on pages related […]
Read More Newtype and New HypeMonster usually does layoffs only on Tuesdays…but they let some people go today. Pretty unexpected. Some friends of people in my department too. They seemed to mostly be in Product Management…which doesn’t make a lot of sense to do now…right in the middle of a major product change. (There will be a big site redesign […]
Read More Layoffs…again.At our weekly department meeting yesterday, Christine told us that we’d need to start filling out timesheets daily. ARGH! That’s one of the things I absolutely hated having to do when I worked for The Monster Board four years ago. Except for the occasional consulting job that required me to count my hours, I have […]
Read More I hate timesheetsI got a smack on the wrist today for coming in about 20 minutes later than usual without calling to say I’d be in later. Yeah, I overslept a little bit and then discovered I had to scrape my car when I got out to it this morning. Blah. Got my Christmas presents from Lizz. […]
Read More Yeah, shame on me. Whatever.I’ve been meaning to write about this past weekend before writing any new stuff…but I guess I can throw in these Monster tid-bits: E-mail me if you got your job through Monster. The company is looking for success stories (particularly in their “skilled and hourly” Cincinatti test market). They’ll want to post it on the […]
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So there’s this guy I used to work with at The Monster Board (back when it was called “The Monster Board”) named Joe Busch. He and I were both Internet Developers (along with Christine) in the Creative department. Joe got fed up with the bitch who was our boss at the time and left shortly […]
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