OMG! OGCC! ROFLMFAO!

[mbarrick]

I was reading an article about layoffs at IBM that had http://fuckedcompany.com cited as a source. I hadn't been there in a long time and surfed on over. Then I had a brainstorm and typed in "OneGoodCar.com" - If you haven't known me long enough to know the significance of that, ask and I will explain in the comments. Anyway, the search result came up with this and it made my day.

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explain please

[uberbabe.livejournal.com]

Can you please explain the significance of onegoodcar.com?

Thank you.

I was hoping you'd ask!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Back in 1999, before the Great Dot.Com Bomb, I was working for a spasdically mis-managed design company (http://www.mbarrick.net/PowerLink/index.htm) that, despite going into "the web business" in 1994, due to management that couldn't wrap their head around the concept that Internet technology actually changes, failed to actually make any money designing web pages. Anyway, despite themselves they landed a .com contract in 1999 - OneGoodCar.com out of Seattle. I went down with the sales-bots on a brainstorming mission to map out the site and after several hours of listening to various sales monkeys chatter I got up and told them all what they were asking for. My site design was universally lauded and agreed to on the spot. The contract was signed and we went to work. Then it went to shit. They barraged me and the the graphic designer with endless ad hoc changes. I drove myself to the edge trying to get all their stupid changes in under the deadlines that were set based on the original design. I complained bitterly to my boss that the client was fucking himself with all these changes and the site would be a disaster. I told him that he should grow some balls and actually *act* like the "expert" he was supposed to be. It actually degraded to full-on screaming at him. It was ugly. What we ended up with was daily conference called with the client where they would get all the used car salesmen together and bombard us with completely stupid spec changes. Sorry, but when you are supposed to be a consultant hired for superior expertise the customer is not always right.

Well, despite the fact that what we delivered was exactly what they asked for and it took me weeks of 16-20 hour days to get it done, it (as I predicted) went over like a lead balloon. They bailed on us, hired another company to build the exact site I proposed and refused to pay the company I was contracted under. So the company chose not to pay me for the 406 hours I put into the project, knocking myself out to meet every stupid request within the impossible schedule. That left an $11,800 hole in my pocket that I wasn't too happy about. So I really flipped.

The fuck-head in charge agreed to pay me for actually doing what he asked of me (go figure). He pretended everything was hunky-dory to my face, but was planning to oust me as soon as it was convenient. No being a moron I saw it coming. I started evacuating my things from the office and getting set up to run my own show. Then one day, as I was working remotely they changed the locks on the front door, changed the alarm code, and (theoretically) locked me out of the servers, and *then* told me I was toast.

Funny thing is, I had an active remote access section open as they were "locking me out". I was in a position to turn back on each thing they turned off, as it was turned off. I didn't though. Nonetheless, the "expert" they had lock me out wasn't as good as they thought. To this day I still have full administrative access to their systems.

Anyway, this was when I went into business for myself. Since then I've actually been making what I am worth. Go figure. Letting them wallow in their own mediocrity has been reward enough.

Nonetheless, it pleased me to no end to see OneGoodCar.com go under. They were so amazingly mis-managed it was incredible. They did eventually cough up TCGs invoice, so my boss did in fact make a profit over screwing me over. They burned through $2 million USD of venture capital. $45,000 USD of that went to TCG for my $11,800 CAD of work. Taking the designer's wage out and the sales-monkey's share and my boss walked away with about $25,000 CAD for fucking up and doing nothing. Pretty sweet for him. Bastard.

So that, in a nut-shell, is my OGCC story.

Re: I was hoping you'd ask!

[valerian.livejournal.com]

LOL

REVENGE!!!!!!!
Muahahahahaaa!

Re: I was hoping you'd ask!

[uberbabe.livejournal.com]

It always is nice to see those that are assholes to you getting theirs in the end. I would go wreak havoc on them though if you still can have access... I personally find revenge is a dish best served cold...

Then again, I'm a vicious bitch, so you may not want to go in and wreak havoc with their system.