[webproducers] Re: What do you think?

I think the guy is rude and out of line all the way around.  Regardless 
of how he or anyone else exited Rapidigm (does anyone else think 
"Rapi-dig-em when they see this word?  Then, all I can think of is that 
commercial where the guy tries to use all the buzz words that are two 
years out of date and mispronounces paradigm...) , he should ask 
permission to cite HSN or any other client. As it is, he can't cite them 
now or ever.   Further, with this snotty blog post broadcasting this 
supposed affront, he alienates past clients, present clients, future 
clients.   Gee!  He might even have scored a testimonial!   Instead, he 
behaves like a spoiled brat. How unattractive.  I would never deal with 
his guy, regardless of his talent and abilities.  There are too many 
others out there...in this country...to choose from who know how to 
conduct themselves in a professional manner.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter whether he's in the right or not.  He loses.

He'll probably have lots of time to take lots of days off after this 
debacle.

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Katherine Gray wrote:
> Not that it makes a huge difference, but I think he was probably an 
> *employee* of Rapidigm, not a sub, based on how they operate. I agree it 
> would be better if he represented the work as work done while he was employed 
> by Rapidigm, but unless there is some issue with confidentiality that 
> Rapidigm made with that particular client I don't think Rapidigm or HSN has 
> any right to tell people they can't put work they've done in their portfolios.
> Obviously, since I'm a former Rapidigm employee myself, this is hitting a 
> nerve. I saw them lay off designers and front-end developers and not give 
> them any time to gather assets for their portfolio so they could show what 
> they'd been doing for the past 2 years of their lives. There was nothing in 
> our employment contracts that precluded us from showing work we'd done. But I 
> guess that's not really the point here, just why I'm willing to give the guy 
> the benefit of the doubt.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Michael James Pinto 
>   To: webproducers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 3:40 PM
>   Subject: [webproducers] Re: What do you think?
> 
> 
>   --- Michael Randazzo <randazzm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   > For those of you that have small businesses or work independently how do
>   > you handle this?
>   > http://www.angrycoder.com/blog/entries/20030507.html
> 
>   It was dishonest of him to not list Rapidigm as his primary client, so
>   HSN is in the right. Had he listed something like "Rapidigm: Working with
>   their client HSN" that would be another thing. I also wonder of if he 
> checked
>   his contract with Rapidigm to make sure that what he did was cool in the
>   first place, I get the feeling that it wasn't (but hard to tell unless we
>   look at his contract).
> 
>   He was a sub-contractor in anycase so he is bound by the agreement that
>   Rapidigm had with HSN. On some of my contracts my clients are very specific
>   on how they are credited - and I've had problems in the past with 
> freelancers
>   who worked for me having claimed through poor wording that they worked
>   directly for my client. 
> 
>   If I were Rapidigm I would make it a point never to work with this guy again
>   if he gave my client any objections. In fact knowing what I know now about
>   Jonathan Goodyear I wouldn't let him anyplace near my valued clients!
> 
>   Keep in mind that Jonathan Goodyear is representing himself as a company,
>   and not as an individual. So it might have been different if he did this
>   as part of a resume, but even in that context he should make it clear that
>   he was on contract and not an employee. 
> 
>   Michael
> 
> 
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