Valleywag
You're bored with the whole thing, but watch and learn, people. This is media training at its finest. "What's happening here is we have a disgruntled former employee. This guy has a blog, and he's used that blog as a platform to spread a bunch of unsubstantiated rumors and gossip. It's hard for us to even respond to — I don't know if you've read it, but it's not entirely even clear necessarily always what's being alleged." — Wikimedia Foundation executive director Sue Gardner on CNET. She praises ex-chair Jimmy Wales's saintly, parsimonious behavior all the way back to last summer.
That's at least a year after the dates of the claims made by former employee Danny Wool, who was pretty clear on Monday that "This questionable use of Foundation funds stopped in 2006, largely because Jimbeau's credit card was taken away." CNET didn't ask Gardner to confirm or deny the claims made by non-former-employees, including the Slashdot-suing entrepreneur who allegedly got a page erased in exchange for a $5,000 donation.
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Slow news day again, eh?
So, I guess she'll be applying the disgruntled tag to crazy too, huh?
I've never understood why "disgruntled employee" is universally accepted as an immediate removal of credibility. Sure, you need to weigh the situation in case the person is just a nutbar with an axe to grind, but it seems like the label is always applied as an end-of-discussion takedown, which is unfair to where I think the majority of former employee gripes fall; now that they don't have to worry about being fired, they can speak much more freely about legitimate beefs with their former employer.
The attorney-fed talking points just rolled off her tongue, didn't they? Almost as though they were her own words.
wtf - is that a lock and chain around her neck and torso? she gets kept on a pretty short leash, it appears.
This from the gal that hired herself a personal assistant the minute she arrived and then earmarked herself a cool half a mil in the budget. Yes we "feel sorry" for all of these people.
I hear this chick had an interesting job interview with Jimbo in Amsterdam.
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