[webproducers] Re: What do you think?

--- Katherine Gray <kat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

I got the impression that he was a contractor, but that fact you and me aren't 
100%
sure of the story leads me to think that this guy doesn't have good 
communication
skills. But if he was an employee then he could say somthing in his bio like 
"during
his employement at Rapidigm he worked with noted clients X, Y, and Z". 

In any case I looked at his corp. website and the way it's setup is that he has 
a
generic client clist - which gives one the notion that he has a direct working 
relationship
with these companies. Keep in mind that HSN may have agreements with current 
vendors
to list them as an "agency of record". But the main problem is that he didn't 
make
the connection with HSN to Rapidigm.

> 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.

But that's a different issue. Of course if Rapidigm was that bad at management 
they
may have had agreements with their clients but never communicated that with 
their
contractors. If that is the case then Rapidigm didn't do their job, however 
that's
not the fault of their client - who has a right to protect their name. 

I guess I have my doubts about someone with a blog with a name like 
"angrycoder".
Katherine you have to admit that it might give you some doubts about what he is
saying? Of course if I got a letter of a legal nature the first thing I would 
do is
to talk to a lawyer, not write about it on my blog (I bet you would do the same
thing too).

But it sounds like the Rapidigm folks weren't too great...



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