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Google Fires Blogger?
Thomas Hawk writes "CNET is reporting that Mark Jen, a blogger whose candid comments about life on the job at Google sparked controversy last month, has left the company. CNET reports that it is not clear if he resigned or was fired but references a post at Google Blogoscoped where it was suggested that he may have been fired over his blog Ninetyninezeros. Given Google's push into the blogging space with their recent acquisition of Blogger it might be interesting to see how this shakes out."
Oh, the drama!
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
A googol is ten to the one hundredth power, written as a one followed by one hundred zeros.
Ninety nine zeros, the name of the blog, is a googol minus one.
And now we have Google, minus one. One named "Mark".
Maybe it's just because I'm a former math geek, but I just love the way this worked out...
Perhaps they fired him because of poor writing skills. I didn't see a sinlge capital letter on the whole page.
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Never use the services of the largest text searching company you work for, to bad mouth it.
Wow - your HR department is pretty quick.
If I do then I'll be picking up my P45!
.45 by Kahr Arms. (scroll down to see the pistol) Comments like that can definitely lead to termination of employment.
Hopefully you don't mean the new
Thanks to the internet, we can now all die alone together! -SomeWoman
I love this
"hi, my name is mark jen. i used to work for microsoft, and now i work for google."
I guess that will soon be changed to
"hi, my name is mark jen. i used to work for microsoft, i've been dismissed by google, and now i'm fucked."
and
"everything here is my personal opinion and is not read or approved by google"
to
"everything here is my personal opinion and was read by google" (but obviously not approved).
And here is the offending post at Google cache! :)
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