Danny O’Brien’s “To Evil” column is a monthly roundup of bad actors in the technology world — it’s always a funny and telling swipe at rotten behaviour and bad judgement. This month’s To Evil is just out:
Google Sacked Killed And Then Ate A Blogger
Mark Jen, fresh new Googler, formerly of Microsoft, was happily blogging about life at Google when he was called to the company’s Human Resources office. There he was told that he was being let go.
And then, as the term “let go” was repeated with a slightly different stress, the floor beneath Jen was opened up, and he plunged into a school of the little piranhas Google HR keeps in a moat. The piranhas were later served up to other cowering employees by Google’s famous sushi chef, who visits weekly. An important lesson was learnt.
(Thanks, Steve!)