Such a giant fucking disaster.
I personally question whether or not this is the primary reason why Jeff was let go, but either way it LOOKS that way, and the end result is that they basically just shat away all of their credibility overnight. And if they haven't, then they're probably going to lose a fair amount of their editorial staff, too. A friend there told me that basically no work has gotten done since Wednesday, the entire staff is on edge while they update their resumes, and that a number of people didn't show up today or are heading home early.
While there is an official review of Jeff's firing going on now, apparently there is also a witch hunt to find out who leaked it. Because, you know, no one would've ever noticed that one of the co-EICs and most prominent personalities on the site was gone if someone hadn't leaked it. And when you make a mistake, the important thing is to find out who told others about the mistake, not try to address the mistake itself. On top of it all, people internally warned them that this exact scenario would happen because, well, it's entirely fucking predictable, and were blown off anyway.
This is what you get when you put some Maxim cunt in charge of your website, I guess.
Can we get a Gamespot link ban, for the time being? I generally hate the idea of banning sites, but they've actually earned it this time, unlike most of the ones in the past.
