[webproducers] Re: What do you think?

Yes, you and Lydia are right. I don't know this guy and I don't know why I'm 
defending him. His way of dealing with this is incredibly immature and 
unprofessional. Like I said to Lydia offline, I'm just a wounded ex-Rapidigm 
employee who spent a lot of time defending my team to clueless management 
through a host of issues, portfolios being one of the biggies. My perspective 
on this is very skewed. 
My official stand is now: He should quit bitching about this on his blog. He 
should remember to get permission in writing next time. And if any of us are 
ever in a similar situation we should first try to work it out (I think I said 
"kill them with kindness" earlier) and see where this legal directive is coming 
from because we may still be able to get what we want in the end.

Sorry, people. Flashbacks to those years at an imploding interactive agency (a 
sub-div of Rapidigm) circa 1999-2000 do funny things to me. ;) I'm feeling much 
better now.

-Katherine


----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael James Pinto 
  To: webproducers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 4:31 PM
  Subject: [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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