Kara Swisher, of All Things Digital, writes about how there’s been a management shuffle at Facebook. Whether it was really a demotion or just a shuffling, who knows? Media types love to exaggerate something to eke out a story out of nothing.
The most entertaining part of the story is the video included in the blog post where Kara shows a trip that she made to Facebook. She proceeds to tour the buildings and make witty banter. Here victim de jour? Yahoo.
At one point, she’s interviewing Mike Murphy who’s running ad sales at Facebook and used to work at Yahoo. Well see it for yourself at 8:30 (8 mins, 30 seconds) into the video:
8:50
Kara: How is it different from working at Yahoo… ?
Mike: (answer)..
9:05
Kara: And also..like.. the walls aren’t falling all around you today like at Yahoo, for example–
Mike: *grinding teeth* We’re having fun! *angry glare*
Kara: Umm yeah! good! thx a lot. (rushed)
Mike: *most fake smile i’ve ever seen*
OUCH!!
I don’t blame Mike and this was definitely in poor taste. I’m sure Mr Murphy’s got plenty of stock in Yahoo plus former coworkers. It doesn’t help having some blogger twist that thorn in your side.
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