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Billboard, Hollywood Reporter Face the Wrath of Fired IT Staff – Vulture, Vulture.com

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Billboard, Hollywood Reporter Face the Wrath of Fired IT Staff – Vulture, Vulture.com
       

  

      

                              As coronavirus continues to make

layoffs a devastating inevitability across industries, one thing remains clear: it’s probably a bad idea to mess with your IT department – especially if they’re armed with CMS and withering movie references. Billboardand The Hollywood Reporter

, owned by Valence Media, learned this lesson today after

reportedly laying off a number of employees

, including their IT staff. Presumably, the former employees exacted their revenge by posting a short (but impactful) article to Billboard titled “Billboard / Hollywood Reporter lays off entire IT staff due to Covid

. ” The article, credited in the byline to “devops,” was accompanied by a timeless photo of ‘s (Kent “Flounder” Dorfman and a body paragraph also quoting the movie . It simply and evocatively stated:                         “In the wake of Covid pandemic, Valence Media has decided to lay off their entire web IT staff. Effective today. The online Billboard Charts are essentially perfect, so IT staff are no longer needed. Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life … ”                         The article, which was also tweeted out by the official Billboard account , was quickly removed, though not before catching the attention of readers on social media. What’s more, since the internet is forever, a record of the article now exists

for all to ponder And if we can learn anything from this, it’s to consider the human impact of profit-driven decision-making, and also perhaps to (revisit) (Animal House) during quarantine.                                                              Billboard Faces the Wrath of Fired IT Staff   

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