Here we go again…
15Minutes, Website January 28th, 2004 |From Business 2.0’s 101 Dumbest Moments in Business for 2003:
36: Think they’ll buy the April Fool’s joke thing again? Nah, better go with the bit about the top-secret location.
Michael Hanscom, a temp worker at Microsoft’s in-house print shop, is fired after posting to his blog a photo that showed workers at the facility taking delivery of several Apple G5 computers. His supervisor insists that Hanscom was fired not for showing the company relying on the product of its chief rival, but for revealing the location of one of its shipping and receiving departments.
(via BoingBoing)
Update: CNN has summarized this article (along with the my mention). Thanks to Jon for pointing it out!
[See also: Another interview | List of Dangerous Bloggers | Just when things were starting to settle down | Naked over your clothes | One more mention ]
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January 29th, 2004 at 12:12 am
Nice, shows that even good things come from bad. I guess :p
January 29th, 2004 at 12:40 pm
They did not provide a link to you did they? Hopefully it wold not be as bad as the Slashdot Effect?
June 4th, 2004 at 9:17 am
Up in Print
Back in April I was contacted by Toby Earl a writer from Web User, a pretty popular computing/internet magazine from the UK about the weblog I was running for Jeremy. Jeremy had left Tulsa in late January and I was