I know something before Vowe does!
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Remember when vowe posted this?
I love messages like these:
Hi, something even YOU probably don't know yet: xx just resigned from IBM, effective the nnth. He will be the new ...
And in this case, I am going to keep this secret.
Well, I know someone who is leaving IBM - but I'm not telling!
Update
Well, it is time to come clean. Bob is the one leaving IBM - and he cooked up the idea (with my help) to play off the hint at vowe's site and pretend that I "leaked" his impending resignation. We thought it would be especially funny since I was the one who was "leaked about" last time, hence you'd think I would be the last person to do something like this. Anyway, you can read more about it here.
Also, you can read more Bob's new job here.
Good luck Bob!!
Rock
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I thought it was a bit over the top/overacting, but it must be Hollywood making it's influence.
Posted by Karl-Henry Martinsson At 04:45:13 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Ed Brill At 02:15:03 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Volker Weber At 04:16:27 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Stuart McIntyre At 12:04:52 PM On 02/01/2008 | - Website - |
Man, I'm being slow today. This is a guaranteed win for Andrew. Just send the mark a short one time pad. Once you know the name, send a back engineered key that will result in the required name. Doh!!
Posted by Kerr At 09:30:49 AM On 02/01/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Gab Davis At 09:50:40 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
Shame on you!
Posted by Rob Novak At 02:48:45 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
My thoughts here:
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Posted by Brian Benz At 02:15:57 PM On 02/01/2008 | - Website - |
And the worst part? It's not even ORIGINAL!!!
Posted by Bob Balaban At 02:09:13 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Richard Schwartz At 03:42:30 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
Keeping people's secrets -- truly keeping them -- means not dropping bullshit hints like that. If the person in question is truly a friend of the person chatting with you, that message wouldn't have gone your way.
If it were me with the secret information, I most definitely wouldn't even hint at it until the very same person who had given me the news either personally told me it was ok to talk about about -- or else spoke of it in public his/her self.
Posted by Andrew Pollack At 01:47:08 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
This is crap. You can't let him off the hook this easy. Here's a bet. Since I absolutely DO know who is leaving, anyone willing to place a 100 dollar bet with me will be given an encrypted file with the name in.
Once its announced, I'll give you the password and claim my hundred bucks. Any takers?
Posted by Andrew Pollack At 04:49:44 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
Now that it's been announced that Microsoft is bidding on Yahoo, Ed Brill has been tagged as the head of the McHoo! collaboration division reporting to Ray Ozzie.
There... are we all happy now?
<and in case *anyone* is confused or wondering, this is *pure sarcasm"!>
Posted by Duffbert At 07:50:19 AM On 02/01/2008 | - Website - |
So, please join us again next week for another episode of Bad Blogosphere.
Posted by Leonard Pinth-Garnell At 10:04:31 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
You know what, this is just getting crazy. Clearly respect for someone's privacy isn't paramount in this thread and it isn't going to be. Failing to keep a secret when someone wants it kept is bad for the community, its bad for peoples' reputations, and it takes the credibility of everything else we do down a notch or two.
I'm out of this thread. Rocky, if you insist on blabbing people's secrets you should at least make sure you have their permission first. Bob, of all people, you should know when sensitive information needs to be protected. An announcement is like a new car. You really want to drive it around it bit before someone else messes it up by parking on top of it.
You guys can find me when you all come to your senses and everyone can see just how important all this actually is.
Posted by Andrew Pollack At 08:25:54 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
I've thought about this more, and "Andrew being Andrew" doesn't excuse or explain anything. Andrew calls it like he sees it, and finds personal accountability to be paramount.
What does calling it like I see it mean in this context?
Obviously, Rocky, someone told you someone something in confidence.
You posted a teaser about it. You can say what you like, but if your honest you'll admit that it includes a fairly smug reference to having information about someone that many others do not. Sort of 'reverse name dropping'.
All this accomplished was to get more people talking about who it might be, which in the end -- while not obvious -- just increased the chance of people finding out. It could have made things very difficult for ___________, had his goal (or had IBM asked him) to keep things quiet.
So, in this case, "Andrew being Andrew" means seeing potentially destructive, smug, gossip and calling it just that. In terms of my having zero information -- well, I suppose I'll leave it to you to assume what I did or did not know. If I did know, I sure wouldn't have told.
Posted by Andrew Pollack At 01:54:29 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Carl Tyler At 01:39:31 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Christopher Byrne At 09:41:06 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 04:49:59 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
@Ed: I have to agree. This smacks of sellout corporate arrogance in the worst way.
Rocky, you sellout. We should take your LotusGeek moniker away and replace it with "ISV-MarketingFsckwitt"
Posted by Andrew Pollack At 02:19:33 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
"Humor? I don't think that word means what you think it means."
8-)
Posted by Craig Wiseman At 10:11:53 AM On 02/04/2008 | - Website - |
To paraphrase Jon Stewart...
DAMN YOU TOM DUFF!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Andrew Pollack At 07:59:24 AM On 02/01/2008 | - Website - |
No wonder you people haven't been more successful inside IBM.
Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 10:14:13 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
Let me be more clear. I am disgusted by someone that _____ confided in going almost immediately to you.
That you then wrote a this bit of classical literature on this Pulitzer worthy deep investigative news outlet makes it worse.
Posted by Andrew Pollack At 01:52:04 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Andrew Pollack At 10:44:40 AM On 02/01/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Bob Balaban At 05:15:26 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Kerr At 11:05:11 AM On 02/01/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Don McNally At 04:48:38 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
BOOOOOOOOOOO!
Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 02:49:22 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Duffbert At 08:18:28 AM On 02/01/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Karl-Henry Martinsson At 04:10:40 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
As seen from here, I can't honestly understand all the fuss. People get hired and leave IBM all the time, so announcing "someone's going" doesn't seem that much of a new to me, even if it was Rhodin himself. Reacting like Rock violated someone's privacy seems a bit too much to me, since he didn't tell any name. Maybe I am too far away and I am not seeing the picture clearly...
Having said that, I have to say that I agree with Nathan @9, in general I do not like posts like this one, or the one Rocky is trying to emulate. If someone decides to take another path away from a company, let him be the one to announce, period. Is not a question of "privacy", "ethic" or whatever. There is a name for this : gossip. The reason why I do not read some blogs while do read others is the content, if a blog goes too much on the gossip side, it drops off my feedreader in a blink. So far Rocky is still in the list, and I hope he will remain, I do consider this a "small accident", a bit of "show off" like Ed said. But I can forgive that, while from what I see most of my friends who commented here can not. Again, I'm not american so I may be missing something...
Posted by Roberto Boccadoro At 05:24:52 AM On 02/01/2008 | - Website - |
Congrats on the new job, Bob.
I'll guess we'll have to check back in a few years to see the next Rocky/Bob semi-simultaneous career move....
:)
Posted by Brian Benz At 02:23:56 PM On 02/01/2008 | - Website - |
@17 - like its not all the way out there already. This from a guy who spent an entire Lotusphere wearing a tux? I say, FYC.
Posted by Andrew Pollack At 05:22:13 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
And, regarding "FYC", you do NOT have permission to bandy that about.
Posted by Bob Balaban At 07:11:44 PM On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |
We thought it would be funny to replay the "hint" flame war that erupted on Vowe's site a few weeks ago, so we cooked this prank up.
Was it adolescent of us? Sure.
Was it funny? Yes, at the beginning it was VERY funny (IMHO), but I will cop to letting it run on too long.
Are some people genuinely pissed? Yes, evidently so. And for that I am very sorry.
Am I really mad at Rocky? NO, of course not. Rocky is one of the most loyal, stand-up friends I've ever had. If he has a flaw, it's that he shares my weird sense of humor and is easily convinced to participate in silly jokes.
Will I stop imitating Donald Rumsfeld now? Yes.
So, here's the other part of the "come clean": it is I who resigned from IBM this past Tuesday. Rocky knew about it (of course), and Wednesday we cooked up this joke posting. We encouraged a few friends (who were also in the know) to chime in, and they did. However, I take full responsibility for this, and again, if anyone was hurt or offended, I truly apologize.
Check out the full details of my new gig on my blog { Link }
Posted by Bob Balaban At 01:23:24 PM On 02/01/2008 | - Website - |