Blimey! A different McBoob fired for McBlogging!

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:26 pm

http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchi ... l#comments

OvertoneZero · Post by **OvertoneZero** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:16 pm

Bad timing for Drew, but blogging about his firing might hurt his chances to get hired elsewhere within the music industry.

D K · Post by **D K** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:38 pm

i bet fletcher fired him.
that guy is a wizard and a hardass.
i'm glad though that they are so hardcore about their rep and gear,
it is to our benefit in the end.
personally i could care less about their inter-office politics, i don't want to work there,
i just want to buy more distressors....

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:03 pm

it seems like the boss might have assumed the blog was somehow on the company site? very over the top.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:23 pm

D K wrote:i bet fletcher fired him.
that guy is a wizard and a hardass.
i'm glad though that they are so hardcore about their rep and gear,
it is to our benefit in the end.
personally i could care less about their inter-office politics, i don't want to work there,
i just want to buy more distressors....

Yeah, it's all about you and name dropping.

A dude LOST HIS JOB!!

This is bullshit, I hope he sues for violation of civil rights.

telekom · Post by **telekom** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:05 pm

...and no irony that the company is called Mercenary Audio...

Joelb · Post by **Joelb** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:18 am

If your boss what that sort of person, why would you still work there?

mcconaghy · Post by **mcconaghy** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:14 am

Not that I had any reason to shop there, but I sure as Hell won't now... treat your employees like shit and you lose me as a customer.

udp · Post by **udp** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:35 pm

Granted, I quickly scanned the blog in the link, but it certainly looked as if there was a little more to the firing than having a blog. Employee absentee rates as one of the greatest cost to a business. If he was missing a bunch of work then he definitely needed to be replaced with someone who could be there. My 2 cents.

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:40 pm

No comment.

rasputin · Post by **rasputin** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:53 pm

Amazing what ignorant comments get posted here...

First of all, people need to understand what "employment at will" means. A lot of people on this forum are not in the US, and laws are different everywhere.

In most of the US, unless you have some kind of legally binding employment contract, you are an "at-will" employee and can quit at any moment, and you can be dismissed at any moment. Unless you can make a case (in the US) that it's an EEO-violating dismissal, you're out of there, and better pick up and move on. There's no "first amendment" or "civil rights" violation here. Sheesh.

I read Mercenary's CEO's explanation, then the long rebuttal by the guy who got fired. It seems the guy didn't really dispute the gist of Fletcher's reasons, but had a lot of explanations/excuses for them. Having chronic migraines is awful, and sometimes family/medical emergencies happen, but those are not really the employer's problem, I'm sorry to say.

If this guy Drew is such a experienced guru/audio wizard, with his decades of experience and own studio, etc., I'm surprised other companies aren't clamoring to hire him. Maybe they are.
Well, hope things work out for him...

r.

smartass303 · Post by **smartass303** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:58 pm

The problem is that he had to work...
No work no problems

sheesh

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:26 pm

mikemc wrote:it seems like the boss might have assumed the blog was somehow on the company site? very over the top.

Ok, of course there is more.. .sigh .. he said it was a 'purely personal blog' but in fact it indicates it is about music in the 'tag line'.

The people in that kind of company, managers and co-workers, want time there to be a labor of love: you get to spend 4 hours a week in a control room full of the kind of gear that they sell, they didn't have a formal sick leave policy... to some extent the gearjunkies dream job.

it is an incredible hard hit to get let go just when you have a new baby, but you have to bounce back harder, look at it hard, and start planning success.

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:45 pm

I'd bet he has a wrongful termination claim. If this has nothing to do with job performance, and he was fired for a personal reason no affecting work, he could sue the shit outta them. I'd take this case and have fun.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:53 pm

nebulae wrote:I'd bet he has a wrongful termination claim. If this has nothing to do with job performance, and he was fired for a personal reason no affecting work, he could sue the shit outta them. I'd take this case and have fun.

How far does 'at will employment' go though?

If someone found an e-mail address, we could start mass complaints.

It takes a special kind of asshole to fire a dude with a new baby.