Scout.com chairman fired, entire engineering team quits
Just saw this one come across on the Twitter feed. Awful Announcing has a good write-up on the craziness happening over at Scout. Sunday night, the chairman (and former CEO as of June) Jim Heckman was fired after trying to negotiate on behalf of the engineering team over late paychecks and unrealized equity. The board didn't like that, so they fired him and changed the locks on the engineering office in Seattle, which prompted the whole engineering team to quit.
Whole thing sounds like a giant clusterfuck.
In Fact, when something like a TV station has an entire wikipedia page dedicated to its criticism it's probably not a great sign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_ESPN
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the dude with the lighter
Motion for Brian to hire Sam for a premium section of the site.
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Look for Scout to offer a buy one month and get 3 years for free deal soon to try and recover.
The biggest sign of gross incompetence and ignorance here is that they think they can protect themselves from their own angry engineering team by physically locking them out of the office.
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