What, they don't fire MVPs any more? (-:
What, they don't fire MVPs any more? (-:
Posted Jul 28, 2002 7:19 UTC (Sun) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494)Parent article: IBM and Linux our biggest threats - Microsoft (Register)
I guess that means no more firing of their Most Valued Professionals? (-:
Subject: [HATT] OT: Tech Writer Times Extra: MVP Mishap
The latest from the Tech Writer Times and Picayune
San Diego--Ehelp corporation, in a move that simultaneously outraged and perplexed help authors everywhere, announced today that they were firing all of their MVPs because they failed to live up to the name. "When we started the Most Valuable Puppet program," the ehelp spokesperson said, "we expected people would say whatever we told them to. We were most disappointed to find that these people actually had minds of their own and we had no choice but to dismiss them immediately."
David Knopf, the most recently fired MVP, said he misunderstood the agreement not realizing that he in fact was supposed act as a puppet for the ehelp corporation party line. "I thought I could say what I believed," Knopf said, "but apparently I was supposed to say what ehelp believed. My mistake."
HAPPE (Help Authors Perpetually Perplexed by ehelp) spokesperson Ron Miller said, "I don't care how many beers these people buy me (referring to ehelp's earlier program to buy all help authors a drink), this is despicable."
A recent survey commissioned by HAPPE found that only one person out of 2000 respondents intended to buy an ehelp product in the next year. When told of this, an ehelp spokesperson replied, "Good, we don't want these negative people as customers anyway." ehelp also announced massive layoffs today, but insisted they were unrelated to their recent battle with the help authoring community.
HAPPE spokesperson Ron Miller said, "I guess somebody's chickens are coming home to roost."
In a related story, although sales of ehelp's flagship product RoboHelp have come to virtual standstill, ehelp reported that copies of RoboMyOpinion continue to fly off the shelves. "We can't understand it, but we can't keep up with demand," an ehelp spokesperson replied. "It's our best selling product ever."