I hope some of you can give a few suggestions...
As list "old-timers" know, I left a job as Director of Internet Marketing, at
a firm that I helped start (but became less happy when the sys admin who I
started the biz with left to persue his heart). I left this darn-good-paying
job because of one individual (let's call him "Joe"). Joe was initially a
freelancer, but my boss brought him on-board full time to do most of the
design and coding while I dealt with the clients. My boss and Joe were lovers
at the time. So if I had to tell Joe of a problem that one of the clients had
with a site, and ask him to make changes, he'd blow a fit. OK, I could deal
with the "artiste" diva mentality. But then the next day I'd take crap from
my boss who'd come in yelling that I had no right to talk to Joe that way and
that if not for Joe there wouldn't be a company yadda yadda... Hard for me
not to remind the boss that freelancers - or I - could do the job cheaper and
without sprinkling our name throughout the source code...
Anyway, it got to a point where the job I loved was no longer pleasant, so I
found another job. I did NOT take any of my clients with me. In fact, I
recommended they keep with my former employer as I was getting out of the
business completely (but the business called me back soon after...). I do NOT
have any of my former clients here at Iovation. Several of my former clients
moved on from my former employer as they were unhappy with the service after I
left, but that was _their_ choice. I thought I had left without rancor, but
there are some people who truly hate others and reality has no place in their psyche...
Anyway, I happened to be discussing some old sites with a friend, and went to
the very first site I hand-coded (long before Joe was hired - heck, it was
before EYE was hired and I did it as a favor to the company in it's
pre-formative stages!). Anyway, I happened to peek at the source code since I
noticed that the text had been changed (I don't use the word "schpiel" in a
public website EVER) and saw that a copyright notice had been appended with
Joe's name.
This was originally a quickly hand-coded temporary site that was never used
(the domain name was for dial-in and subdomaining purposes). The background
is off some old CD, and the pics were from Corel's stock stuff, but the code
and text were mine done on a weekend afternoon when we were trying to quickly
get a site development, hosting and dial-in business off the ground. In the
source code of this long-ago site (I whipped it up in 1996 long before the
browsers got advanced), is some pretty unpleasant commented text:
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This site was originally created, if you could call stealing other people's
work 'creating', by Terri Grodner.
Since then it serves as a painful reminder of what can happen if you let
unqualified and untrustworthy people do things their way....
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I can see not liking my work - fine, not everybody's sites are to everybody's
tastes. But is the above slander? And is there anything I can do about it?
Terri Grodner
not using my usual sig as I don't want the stain of this issue to run onto my
current business.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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