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  • The Deathly Hallows of Online Community

    LiveJournal's users are revolting! And not just because of their weird obsession with writing dirty stories about Harry Potter. It's a cautionary tale for anyone hoping to profit from online community.

    5:00 PM on Sun Jan 11 2009, by Owen Thomas, 11,038 views, 98 comments
    http://gawker.com/5128892/the-deathly-hallows-of-online-community

  • The Russian Bear Slashes a Social Network

    The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut 12 of 28 U.S. employees — and offered them no severance, we're told.

    2:24 AM on Tue Jan 6 2009, by Owen Thomas, 88,186 views, 85 comments
    http://gawker.com/5124184/the-russian-bear-slashes-a-social-network

  • Sometimes, the Best Decisions Are the Ones That Are Made for You

    Here's my last round of layoff horror stories: my own! So, let me just say, as I eeeease out of the office: About a month ago, worried for some reason I couldn't place...

    4:05 PM on Tue Dec 30 2008, by Sheila, 23,028 views, 247 comments
    http://gawker.com/5120428/sometimes-the-best-decisions-are-the-ones-that-are-made-for-you

  • You're Fired, Er, No You're Not

    Sequoia Capital, the backer of Apple, Yahoo, and Google, ordered its startups to slash their payrolls this fall. We hear one CEO fired people so enthusiastically he had to retract some of his pink slips.

    1:55 PM on Mon Dec 22 2008, by Owen Thomas, 15,267 views, 19 comments
    http://gawker.com/5115876/youre-fired-er-no-youre-not

  • Laid Off Just in Time for the Holidays

    Time for the laid off to lawyer up. Today, Forbes reported that "white-collar workers laid off amid the financial crisis are using the 20-year-old plant-closing law" that requires employers to either give workers two-months notice of mass firings...

    12:55 PM on Wed Nov 26 2008, by Sheila, 15,584 views, 111 comments
    http://gawker.com/5099257/laid-off-just-in-time-for-the-holidays

  • Let's Use One of These Hot Blonde Girls to Replace Her

    Remember last Friday? Laid-off Weinstein company employees sure do. They had been asked on Wednesday to clean up their desks because

    4:43 PM on Mon Nov 24 2008, by Sheila, 25,317 views, 52 comments
    http://gawker.com/5098072/lets-use-one-of-these-hot-blonde-girls-to-replace-her

  • Laid Off for the Holidays

    So the Dow closed, terribly, under 8,000 for the first time in five years, Time Inc's chopping more heads, and we're still looking for your layoff stories! (Send them to tips@gawker.com.) Oh, and? Remember the sad layoff story we you told you...

    5:37 PM on Wed Nov 19 2008, by Sheila, 9,011 views, 57 comments
    http://gawker.com/5093623/laid-off-for-the-holidays

  • Love Your Life? Lose Your Job

    This round of layoff tales are dedicated to those fired from Wired, Time Inc.'s European contingent, and Michigan's autoworker retirees who have just had their promised lifetime healthcare stolen. Has Twittering your after-work activities like...

    3:46 PM on Tue Nov 11 2008, by Sheila, 7,636 views, 51 comments
    http://gawker.com/5083333/love-your-life-lose-your-job

  • Get Well Soon, Without a Job

    In honor of the Friday layoffs sweeping through the media today, we bring you even more funny-sad stories of being fired. (Esquire, Wenner, O at Home, this one goes out to you.) As always, send your own anecdotes to...

    6:25 PM on Fri Nov 7 2008, by Sheila, 7,920 views, 8 comments
    http://gawker.com/5079947/get-well-soon-without-a-job

  • If I'm the One Fired, Why Are You Crying?

    Election euphoria hasn't stopped waves of layoffs. "The number of out-of-work Americans continuing to draw unemployment benefits has surged to a 25-year high," reports the AP today. With that in mind, it's another round of layoff... horror...

    3:44 PM on Thu Nov 6 2008, by Sheila, 16,409 views, 122 comments
    http://gawker.com/5078639/if-im-the-one-fired-why-are-you-crying

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