http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/03/14/speaking-of-impressive-resignation-letters Comments On: Speaking of Impressive Resignation Letters... by David Schmader en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Innovation now is not only shunned "unless it is met with success", but shunned outright despite success because it undermines the value of the investment into "corporately-consistent" business products.
A generation of innovative, flexible, agile workers is being disenfranchised and disenheartened by a bunch of dusty stuffed shirts backed by vapid 40-something marketing majors who were weaned on antiquated 90's business strategy and have never spent a day in the trenches, from whence the real work, innovation, and product of a company comes.
Planet Earth, Rest in Fucking Peace.
Posted by TrickyC]]> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:57:30 -0700 The Stranger The Google I was passionate about was a technology company that empowered its employees to innovate. The Google I left was an advertising company with a single corporate-mandated focus.

This is, is it not, the American business life cycle? A company is innovative or in some other way very cool and becomes successful. After that initial blast of success, the suits arrive. And after the suits arrive, it becomes just like every other corporate monolith concerned primarily not with what it makes but with the art of the deal because if there's one thing most people will tell you about working for corporations, they abhor originality unless that originality meets with success - starting the cycle all over again.
Posted by Bauhaus I]]> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:48:46 -0700 The Stranger Posted by ap0]]> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:00:58 -0700 The Stranger Posted by jen]]> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:29:15 -0700 The Stranger
Heh heh

http://www.theonion.com/articles/google-…
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:15:39 -0700 The Stranger Posted by heywhatsit!?]]> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:01:16 -0700 The Stranger Posted by gloomy gus]]> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:58:10 -0700 The Stranger Posted by nartweag]]> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:55:24 -0700 The Stranger Posted by MarkyMark]]> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:46:01 -0700 The Stranger are aware of this, I hope???

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/08/…

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/…

Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon’s premiere research shop to take a job with Google. Dugan, whose controversial tenure at the agency lasted just under three years, was “offered and accepted at senior executive position” with the internet giant, according to Darpa spokesman Eric Mazzacone. She felt she couldn’t say no to such an “innovative company,” he adds.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/08/…

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/03/…

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2012/0…

Posted by sgt_doom]]> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:40:47 -0700 The Stranger