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InformationWeek Covers Firing
On his blog, InformationWeek’s John Foley does a great job of covering the base issues. Here’s his post.
Apparently he tried to call HSC.
John sums it up nicely:
There may be more to this story than a single incident of questionable judgment by a blogging zealot. Wright indicates he planned to quit even if he hadn’t been sacked – in fact, he claims that he even asked HSC to fire him so that he could be reimbursed for some moving expenses. Looks like he got his wish. HSC hasn’t yet returned my call for comment. Either way, Wright’s example serves as a warning for the growing number of bloggers who are writing about work, and sometimes from work, about how things can go wrong.
At the end of the day I (nor anybody else) will probably know why I was fired. Probably perception + politics + bad judgement in a tactless post a year ago + I was quitting soon. But, really, we’ll never know (in spite of the person who fired me posting an anonymous comment here with his reasons).
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about 7 years ago
I’m a bit confused on the firing and being reimbursed for moving expenses bit – I can’t think of how that would work. I’m also not entirely sure how the $2000 pager thing works – unless it’s somehow a reference to the moving expenses? It’s friday and my brain packed it in hours ago.
about 7 years ago
No worries, I haven’t been really focussing on the financial aspects because they haven’t all that important yet.
When I was hired I received a 4500$ moving allowance. I had to pay it back only if I quit before my 1 year anniversary.
Which is why my resignation was for the 4th fo Feb. 2 days after my anniversary.
As far as the pager money, basically I was supposed to be on call until Feb 4. Being on call at HSC means you get a fair chunk of change. In my case it would have been about 2000$ in extra pay between now and then.
The offer for severance was purely “pay until Feb 4″, not pager. So I’m out 2K.
Hopefully that clears it up.
Again, though, this is just my understanding. Numerous calls, emails and visits have yielded a stone wall of zero information. I really don’t know what I’m going to get or how.
about 7 years ago
Ah… I was trying to figure out what kind of pager you had that could run $2000… some sort of satellite phone / GPS Blackberry / laptop product. The differential pay for being on call makes sense in that way.
Thanks for clearing that up.