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Michael Watch: Day 2 More

Michael Watch: Day 2

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  • Oh wait, that might just be my second mug of coffee...
  • I blame Bush, in honor of michael, that is. Lord knows he would've blamed Bush, or Ashcroft.

    It was probably Bush's tax cuts that forced the terrible economy that caused \. to have to drop him. And I have forged documents from 1972 that proves this.

    I doubt we'll be lucky enough to be able to donate tin foil to him for a tax deduction.
  • ...wonder what happened, came across this piece about some funny business [spectacle.org] Michael took part in a while back....maybe the censorware mob finally caught up with him?
  • I'm still not sure what happened with katz (fired? moved on? wtf?) and I'm sure there's even less chance of knowing for sure what happened to michael.

    However, this much is certain: slashdot will be a mcuh better place now that michael's mod-bombing, threadslapping days are done.
    • Ahh, to truely get rid of that, you'd need to wack Taco and fix slashcode so it shows each message's true moderation details.

      Moderations:
      Trak (670) +1 Interesting
      mammajamma (790493) -1 Overrated
      Pudge (3605) -99 Troll, ip ban, $rtbl

  • The real deal (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 04, 2005 @02:59AM (#11570041)
    I got this from a verified source who's in the know:

    Long story short, michael was canned for his abusive and egotistical personality.

    Rob's been building a list of complaints by users about michael's abusive patterns but he never acted on it. Well, michael managed to bitchslap one of Rob's old college buddies' accounts along with a couple of paid accounts, word eventually filtered down to Rob, and he had kittens. He convinced michael's OSTG manager to track him down and drag him into a conference call.

    Rob laid down the law and started reading off complaints and michael raised his voice, saying that if Rob had a personal problem with him that he didn't need to go over his head and involve his manager in it.

    During the shouting match, michael's editor flag was revoked. He was in the admin area at the time and he noticed.

    At this point he went totally ballistic and started screaming about how this was why he moved, to get away from "arrogant elitist bullshit". (this is a direct quote.. michael actually did move from New York to Canada to protest George W. Bush's inauguration in 2001. Andover kept him on since it was only an all-remote job anyway.)

    michael's manager ducked out of the call to page (read: wake up) Hemos (overseas on business) to three-way him into the call, to try and calm everyone down.

    There was some more shouting, and michael's manager told him that things aren't working out well, and that he's going to recommend that his employment be terminated.

    michael just hung up, and that was the end of the call as well as michael's employment with OSTG.

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